Quick Trivia 3

[iRage]

Here is another picture which will help you seek out the exact variant

 

[john cooper]

10 hours ago, iRage said:

Here is another picture which will help you seek out the exact variant

 

Maybe a Nissan B310 modified by one of the Fibre guys to hide the identity 😁

[iRage]

1 hour ago, john cooper said:

Maybe a Nissan B310 modified by one of the Fibre guys to hide the identity 😁

No...go down @matroska's path  

[matroska]

this was quite exhausting. Thanks to a rather time consuming search on reddits miata sub reddit  I think I may have found it. Is this Eva ME-22 ? 

Edited June 17 by matroska

[iRage]

16 hours ago, matroska said:

this was quite exhausting. Thanks to a rather time consuming search on reddits miata sub reddit  I think I may have found it. Is this Eva ME-22 ? 

YES ! It is an EVA ME-22. Over to you !

Yes..the yellow one has been making its rounds on SL socials. It is quite disheartening to see how people are bashing that car without knowing what it it. Most seem to think that someone took a Miata and ruined it with some weird kit....well..it is...sort of.
Eva motors bought base cars from Mazda (the NA roadster) and did up the entire car. The modern-day equivalent to a company doing that would be Mitsuoka with their Rock Star. Although there were no significant performance improvements, they did make cooling enhancements, and depending on the configuration, offered suspension upgrades. Now of course, if you had an actual Mazda Roadster at the time, you could send it to Eva Motors and they would do the same for your car. Apparently, not many were done up like this, therefore, almost all of these cars have been registered under the manufacturer's name Eva and not Mazda.

These things are quite rare and sell for a lot more than the standard NA Roadster/Miata/MX-5.

This particular one apparently came with the Ferrari badges even from Japan. Some Japanese dude was probably living out his Ferrari (Dino ?) fantasies.

[matroska]

4 minutes ago, iRage said:

YES ! It is an EVA ME-22. Over to you !

Yes..the yellow one has been making its rounds on SL socials. It is quite disheartening to see how people are bashing that car without knowing what it it. Most seem to think that someone took a Miata and ruined it with some weird kit....well..it is...sort of.
Eva motors bought base cars from Mazda (the NA roadster) and did up the entire car. The modern-day equivalent to a company doing that would be Mitsuoka with their Rock Star. Although there were no significant performance improvements, they did make cooling enhancements, and depending on the configuration, offered suspension upgrades. Now of course, if you had an actual Mazda Roadster at the time, you could send it to Eva Motors and they would do the same for your car. Apparently, not many were done up like this, therefore, almost all of these cars have been registered under the manufacturer's name Eva and not Mazda.

These things are quite rare and sell for a lot more than the standard NA Roadster/Miata/MX-5.

This particular one apparently came with the Ferrari badges even from Japan. Some Japanese dude was probably living out his Ferrari (Dino ?) fantasies.

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka - I tried to run the plates in the DMT website but the service is down 90% of the time. If it did arrive as an Eva - that would have resulted in a confused individual at DMT sitting in his wood-and rattan chair. Remember this was the mid 90's when  Opels, Kias and Daewoos were registered as made in Japan. So they at least probably go the country of origin right in the book. 

[john cooper]

1 hour ago, matroska said:

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka - I tried to run the plates in the DMT website but the service is down 90% of the time. If it did arrive as an Eva - that would have resulted in a confused individual at DMT sitting in his wood-and rattan chair. Remember this was the mid 90's when  Opels, Kias and Daewoos were registered as made in Japan. So they at least probably go the country of origin right in the book. 

Oh may be after spotting the horse badge, DMT might have thought that the car is from the Morris family, the famous Morris bull cross with a Phoney or got modernised, so the Country of origin might say UK 😁  

[iRage]

4 hours ago, matroska said:

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka -

 

2 hours ago, john cooper said:

Oh may be after spotting the horse badge, DMT might have thought that the car is from the Morris family

According to several sources the make is supposedly registered as Ferrari

 

Edited June 18 by iRage

[john cooper]

19 hours ago, iRage said:

 

According to several sources the make is supposedly registered as Ferrari

 

You're joking, that's unreal mate.

[iRage]

3 hours ago, john cooper said:

You're joking, that's unreal mate.

I wish...but knowing our guys it most likely is the case  

[matroska]

right next one 

[iRage]

6 hours ago, matroska said:

right next one 

That notched line on the C-pillar tells it all

[matroska]

13 hours ago, iRage said:

That notched line on the C-pillar tells it all

nice to see the clue was very well taken   @john cooper wanna have a go ?

[john cooper]

Try this

[john cooper]

On 6/23/2025 at 12:00 PM, john cooper said:

Try this

Anyone?

[matroska]

46 minutes ago, john cooper said:

Anyone?

First impression was Italian but the next clues kind of eliminated the first couple of models that came to my mind. 

[iRage]

19 hours ago, matroska said:

First impression was Italian

But it is !!!! It is wider than the widest prancing horse though. Interestingly, it is built on a horse chassis. Last year the manufacturer revealed a special model to commemorate this car's 20th anniessary. 

[Duan27]

On 6/23/2025 at 5:30 AM, john cooper said:

Try this

Typed out my guess a few days back and forgot to post it xD, was still thinking that I did

The Maserati MC12? Though I’m fairly sure there aren’t any in SL

Used to be one of my fav cars when I played NFS Shift on my dad’s Nokia N8, brings back a lot of memories

[john cooper]

On 6/28/2025 at 1:30 AM, Duan27 said:

Typed out my guess a few days back and forgot to post it xD, was still thinking that I did

The Maserati MC12? Though I’m fairly sure there aren’t any in SL

Used to be one of my fav cars when I played NFS Shift on my dad’s Nokia N8, brings back a lot of memories

Yes, this is the MC12
It's a brother to the Ferrari Enzo from another mother, and found out that the MC 12 only has 50 road legal units

@Duan27 Your turn mate

[john cooper]

On 6/27/2025 at 12:08 PM, iRage said:

But it is !!!! It is wider than the widest prancing horse though. Interestingly, it is built on a horse chassis. Last year the manufacturer revealed a special model to commemorate this car's 20th anniessary. 

Did Trident come 1st or Horse? I think Trident and Enzo built on that chassis

[iRage]

1 hour ago, john cooper said:

50 road legal

Yeah...supposedly 62 or something in total when you include the test and race cars.

[matroska]

@Duan27 : Your Turn.

[Duan27]

15 hours ago, matroska said:

@Duan27 : Your Turn.

 

On 6/30/2025 at 5:37 AM, john cooper said:

@Duan27 Your turn mate

Aight, here's the next one - Should be a really easy guess for y'all!

[john cooper]

6 hours ago, Duan27 said:

 

Aight, here's the next one - Should be a really easy guess for y'all!

Renault 5 

 

P.S. Bri Ponnambalam's GT Turbo was up for sale 2 months ago and someone snapped it, hope it has gone to a good home!

Edited July 3 by john cooper

[Duan27]

7 hours ago, john cooper said:

Renault 5 

That’s right!

There’s a new electric hatchback out too, and at least in terms of design, they managed to stay faithful to the original while reimagining it, looks pretty rad 

 

Over to ya @john cooper