80's and 90's Limited editions

[Ratchet]

clearing out more stuff from the garage today and came across this medal in a box of parts, which i clearly remember liberating from the dashboard of a scrapped Hyundai when i worked in a garage/breakers yard back in the early 00's





interestingly its struck by Birmingham mint, and number 0187 of, well who knows?


Anyway I did some googling and found.. well not a lot really, other then it was a special edition Pony or Stellar from 1988, (though oddly i recall the car it came from being a later model, must be remembering wrongly)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HYUNDAI-PONY-STELLAR-Olympic-Gold-Silver-Medal-1988-Ltd-Edn-UK-Mkt-brochure-/221754128562

Got me thinking about the many limited edition manufacturers used to do in the 80s and 90s, often sporting related, like this fiat panda



www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Rare-Fiat-Panda-750-Italia-90-ltd-edition-Reported-only-3-in-country-/271924859710?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f4ffc133e

aI Clearly remember seeing euro 96 badged Vauxhalls in dealerships (i'm not a sport fan at all btw)but seems there are no pictures online of them, and who can forget the Roland Garros Peugeot's, with that great colour scheme and interior still hanker after a 106 or 205 version



quite a lot were just half baked marketing exercises, usually just a set of badges slapped on a car and a few goodies thrown in, and most have been forgotten by now,



[saw one of these golfs lately, in black, feel old as i remember them being released]

Manufacturers don't seem to do so much of it these days, possibly because everything big car manufacturers do has become such srs bzns! lately....

Anyway lets see some, and any pics of those gold/silver medal Hyundai would be nice, wonder if any still exist..

[120y]

I remember the Peugeot 205/309 LOOK limited edition, the advert had ABC "The Look of Love" music playing, wonder if any survived ?

[rattlecan]

Yeh I bought my Son a 106 Garros, just as a 'run around' from a mate who owns a garage & had taken it as a part x.
Bloody horrendous interior, it had white leather seats & a bright day glow sort of gear knob. Obviously all designed to look a bit tennis court ish.
Who ever bought one new & thought it looked good needed therapy

[Wilk]

5GTT Raiders ..... Enough said

[Ratchet]

Mar 13, 2016 20:09:41 GMT 120y said:

I remember the Peugeot 205/309 LOOK limited edition, the advert had ABC "The Look of Love" music playing, wonder if any survived ?

I remember those, not seen one in ages though, don't recall the advert though, i do remember the Key largo/key west 106's which i wanted as a kid, mainly because of the colors.. which don't look nearly as nice in person as it turned out, plus they were basically just poverty spec 1.1's with a badge on the dashboard and back ahaha

[Ratchet]

Mar 13, 2016 20:16:38 GMT rattlecan said:

Yeh I bought my Son a 106 Garros, just as a 'run around' from a mate who owns a garage & had taken it as a part x.
Bloody horrendous interior, it had white leather seats & a bright day glow sort of gear knob. Obviously all designed to look a bit tennis court ish.
Who ever bought one new & thought it looked good needed therapy

i actually like the interiors <_<; . don't remember the gearknob though?

there were some horrific Citroen Saxo special editions, one had like two tone green/red seats with a fake zipper down the middle, and seatbelts in 4 different colors and another had bright yellow gearknob and door pulls.. no idea what they were called though

[rattlecan]

The other one of course, cos they did bloody hundreds is the mini.
Ritz, 25,30,35,40,Jet Black,Red Hot,Mayfair,Chelsea,Park Lane,Piccadilly,Advantage,Flame,Checkmate etc etc etc

[rattlecan]

Mar 13, 2016 20:28:10 GMT Ratchet said:

Mar 13, 2016 20:16:38 GMT rattlecan said:

Yeh I bought my Son a 106 Garros, just as a 'run around' from a mate who owns a garage & had taken it as a part x.
Bloody horrendous interior, it had white leather seats & a bright day glow sort of gear knob. Obviously all designed to look a bit tennis court ish.
Who ever bought one new & thought it looked good needed therapy

i actually like the interiors <_<; . don't remember the gearknob though?

there were some horrific Citroen Saxo special editions, one had like two tone green/red seats with a fake zipper down the middle, and seatbelts in 4 different colors and another had bright yellow gearknob and door pulls.. no idea what they were called though

No accounting for taste I guess

[120y]

309 LOOK

[accord83]

I haven't a pic, but I remember a neighbour having a Jeans Beetle, orange with a blue denim interior.

[DWDarkWheels]

You make a very good point. Manufacturers seemed to inject fresh interest by adding some options, graphics and a special editon badge back then.

I had a 1990 Vauxhall Nova Diamond in Electric Blue, and really can't find a good photo of one now.
Metallic paint, alloy wheels, electric windows, Blaupunkt stereo, sunroof, sunstripe windscreen. Doesn't seem such an exotic spec today.

[oukie]

Mar 13, 2016 20:28:10 GMT Ratchet said:

Mar 13, 2016 20:16:38 GMT rattlecan said:

Yeh I bought my Son a 106 Garros, just as a 'run around' from a mate who owns a garage & had taken it as a part x.
Bloody horrendous interior, it had white leather seats & a bright day glow sort of gear knob. Obviously all designed to look a bit tennis court ish.
Who ever bought one new & thought it looked good needed therapy

i actually like the interiors <_<; . don't remember the gearknob though?

there were some horrific Citroen Saxo special editions, one had like two tone green/red seats with a fake zipper down the middle, and seatbelts in 4 different colors and another had bright yellow gearknob and door pulls.. no idea what they were called though

Saxo Forte, my wife bought one brand new, before I met her. Bright lured yellow, yellow gear knob, multi colour seat belts, multi coloured seats.

[accord83]

I doubt the VW Polo Harlequin was anything to do with the rugby club, possibly a bad acid trip.

[Ratchet]

Mar 13, 2016 21:45:55 GMT accord83 said:

I doubt the VW Polo Harlequin was anything to do with the rugby club, possibly a bad acid trip.

There were quite a few versions of the Jeans beetle, most common in uk was the 70's one with blacked out trim etc. i do remember seeing one running about when daily driven beetles were still a common sight

Thinking about it Vw made dozens of special edition beetles in the 70s, there was a entire website dedicated to it somewhere

as far as the harlequin goes, from what i remember it was originally a car done for an advert/show that got a bunch of interest so they made some, the US got a mk3 golf version, and there was a Mexican beetle one in the 90s too (oddly i remember seeing a beetle in very similar style running around Aberdeen when i was a kid, long before the polo even existed.. owner probably had replaced wings and doors, then decided to make it a theme as rear quarters were different colours from roof etc)

[sciclone]

I remember the Nissan Pulsar Reebok edition, Daihatsu Charade Mizuno, and there were a couple of other footwear tie-ins back in the early 90's.

[highvoltage]

My mother had a 106 Graduate for a while,must have been a special edition for bankrupt students,proper povo spec it was.
I remember the Nova Swing,the Micra Wave and Fiesta Finesse,what was the metallic pink Mk4 Escort called,used to see a lot of those about.

Vauxhall did loads especially Chevettes

[Ratchet]

Mar 13, 2016 22:59:31 GMT highvoltage said:

My mother had a 106 Graduate for a while,must have been a special edition for bankrupt students,proper povo spec it was.
I remember the Nova Swing,the Micra Wave and Fiesta Finesse,what was the metallic pink Mk4 Escort called,used to see a lot of those about.

Vauxhall did loads especially Chevettes

Escort eclipse wasn't it? were mostly 1.3's iirc, friend of mine had one at one point, there may have been a metallic blue version too, ca'nt remember if it was called something else though

[highvoltage]

Mar 13, 2016 23:59:02 GMT Ratchet said:

Mar 13, 2016 22:59:31 GMT highvoltage said:

My mother had a 106 Graduate for a while,must have been a special edition for bankrupt students,proper povo spec it was.
I remember the Nova Swing,the Micra Wave and Fiesta Finesse,what was the metallic pink Mk4 Escort called,used to see a lot of those about.

Vauxhall did loads especially Chevettes

Escort eclipse wasn't it? were mostly 1.3's iirc, friend of mine had one at one point, there may have been a metallic blue version too, ca'nt remember if it was called something else though

Yeah thats it,a girl i worked with had one on guaranteed finance,she still owed about 2 grand on it when it was scrapped !
I had Equipe in my head but that was an Orion i think.
There was the travesty known as the MkVl Escort Mexico as well,just a few stickers and fog lamps to try and shift some basic LX's.

[Ratchet]

Mar 14, 2016 0:11:01 GMT highvoltage said:

Yeah thats it,a girl i worked with had one on guaranteed finance,she still owed about 2 grand on it when it was scrapped !
I had Equipe in my head but that was an Orion i think.
There was the travesty known as the MkVl Escort Mexico as well,just a few stickers and fog lamps to try and shift some basic LX's.

I had forgotten about those.. there was also the mk5 escort harrier as well, black with Gold stripes, cleaner at place i worked once had one (i didn't know about the original mk2 escort harrier then)




My parents had a very late Mk6 escort 'equip', on a x or y plate was a runout model i think, as the focus had been out for a while by then. had rather nice 7 spoke rs type wheels and all the toys,

[highvoltage]

Those Harriers didn't look too bad really,i think they were a Scotland only dealer special edition.
The Mk2 Harriers looked great,they were a 1600 Sport with some 4 spoke alloys,graphics and some trim bits from memory,definitely one of the better specials though.
There were 3 Mk2 specials all named after birds,the Harrier,the Goldcrest and the Linnet,i had a Linnet for a while until it caught fire while i was driving it in the middle of York !

There was the Capri Cabaret,Cortina Carousel and Crusader and the Fiesta Firefly as well.
Ford also brought back the 1600E model for a special run of Orions built by Tickford.