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Q#123 - solved - CYX T6 (2000)
« on: October 15, 2008, 06:17:41 PM »
What's the make and model of this car?
« Last Edit: October 07, 2019, 12:51:02 PM by pnegyesi »

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2008, 02:56:55 PM »
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2008, 03:19:52 PM »
What's happenning to that car? Is it melting?
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2008, 04:46:46 PM »
If it is melting, it's certainly not because it's a hot design.

I had to photoshop out part of the answer from the foreground but most of this pic is how the car is supposed to look. Really.  :yuck:

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2008, 05:48:52 PM »
Looks like a really bad mixture of a Fiat Uno with a VW Golf I... :yuck:
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2008, 12:18:23 PM »
Looks like a really bad mixture of a Fiat Uno with a VW Golf I... :yuck:

Really bad - I agree!

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2008, 04:08:24 PM »
Seat Ibiza?

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2008, 11:51:12 AM »

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2008, 11:53:55 AM »
Asian One-off?

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2008, 06:14:33 PM »
Not Asian, and it was actually offered for sale as a production car (although one questions who bought one?)

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2008, 06:16:15 PM »
From the Ex-Eastern Bloc? (nearby Thernobyl?)

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2008, 11:05:04 PM »
Sbarro Robur?

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2008, 11:27:42 AM »
Not Eastern Bloc, not Sbarro...

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2008, 11:38:42 AM »
Exactly European?

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2008, 09:29:00 AM »

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2008, 12:34:04 PM »
Looks like a bit of Lancia...
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2008, 03:56:52 PM »
Looks like a bit of Lancia...

You might be on to something there...

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2008, 04:02:35 PM »
Ypsilon based?
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2008, 06:36:47 PM »
Ypsilon based?

Well yes... as in Y10 based  :)

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2008, 04:50:39 PM »
Pro time

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Re: Q#123
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2008, 08:50:56 PM »
Wow, this one's bugging me.  It is Fiat Panda/Lancia Y10 based, and built by a young Swiss guy, but based in St Julien en Genevois in France, just on the French border just near Geneva.  If only I could remember the name!!
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #21 on: December 12, 2008, 04:25:52 AM »
What's happenning to that car? Is it melting?

Not melting quickly enough - I can still see it.
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2008, 01:09:51 PM »
Wow, this one's bugging me.  It is Fiat Panda/Lancia Y10 based, and built by a young Swiss guy, but based in St Julien en Genevois in France, just on the French border just near Geneva.  If only I could remember the name!!
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #23 on: April 18, 2009, 06:30:07 AM »
Aha, Sir Quiller, I think I can finally put this one to rest.  It is a CYX Prototype T6, to give it its full name, as displayed in a dark forgotten corner of the Geneva Show in March 2000.  As I said all those months back, it was based on a Fiat Panda and made just a few kilometers from the Swiss border in France.
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Re: Q#123
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2009, 02:26:50 AM »
Indeed! If I could give you CyxT6 points, I would  ;)