Quick Trivia 3

[matroska]

[matroska]

No Takers?

[iRage]

1 hour ago, matroska said:

No Takers?

You posted an interior photo with the optional on-dash organizer tray. I am pretty sure that is causing a lot of confusion

I am guessing it is or a derivative of the Daihatsu Mira/Cuore (L200)...by the look of the front lights it could be a 

 

Hard to say...as a Daihatsu these thigns came in so many different variants

Edited November 17 by iRage

[matroska]

On 11/17/2025 at 2:37 PM, iRage said:

You posted an interior photo with the optional on-dash organizer tray. I am pretty sure that is causing a lot of confusion

I am guessing it is or a derivative of the Daihatsu Mira/Cuore (L200)...by the look of the front lights it could be a 

 

Hard to say...as a Daihatsu these thigns came in so many different variants

The dashboard was intentional - i had not seen one before. It is indeed a dai derivative and precisely what the image depicts. Correct! 

[matroska]

Right so the car in question is a Perodua Kancil - a derivative of Daihatsu Mira/Cuore. Kancil refers to the mouse-deer aka Chevrotain- the spotted variant is found in Sri Lanka and known as "meeminna". 

over to you sir, @iRage

Edited November 25 by matroska

[iRage]

Okay..so here it is...it might have already been on the quiz...

[matroska]

On 11/27/2025 at 2:43 PM, iRage said:

Okay..so here it is...it might have already been on the quiz...

Sub-brand of a Chinese Fruit? The first and most common batch of cars from the maker was indeed a fruit  

[iRage]

14 minutes ago, matroska said:

Sub-brand of a Chinese Fruit? The first and most common batch of cars from the maker was indeed a fruit  

I mean c'mon..the name is borderline profanity that James Bond should get p***ed off. Hmm...come to think of it..might be a compliment about what complements a man. 

[matroska]

On 12/1/2025 at 10:58 AM, iRage said:

I mean c'mon..the name is borderline profanity that James Bond should get p***ed off. Hmm...come to think of it..might be a compliment about what complements a man. 

hahaha so since the cat is well and truly out of the bag the answer is 

*dong*feng 007/Jaecoo 007 brought to you by ....drumroll.... Chery! The makers who generously gave us the Chery QQ - a car that gave Sri Lankan's a negative impression on Chinese autos. 

 

[iRage]

14 hours ago, matroska said:

hahaha so since the cat is well and truly out of the bag the answer is 

*dong*feng 007/Jaecoo 007 brought to you by ....drumroll.... Chery! The makers who generously gave us the Chery QQ - a car that gave Sri Lankan's a negative impression on Chinese autos. 

 

Yes but no...but yes...I don't think this has ever happened before. Thanks to all these mushroom EVs. Still..
Over to you...but in actually what I posted was the Dongfeng 007 sedan (i.e. Dongfeng eπ 007 in some markets)

 

 

[matroska]

22 minutes ago, iRage said:

Yes but no...but yes...I don't think this has ever happened before. Thanks to all these mushroom EVs. Still..
Over to you...but in actually what I posted was the Dongfeng 007 sedan (i.e. Dongfeng eπ 007 in some markets)

 

 

eesh  this is getting very confusing now  

Edited Wednesday at 12:01 AM by matroska

[matroska]

Right moving away from the chinese brands ....here's something a little different. 

If you are a fan of old British Comedy (I'm not sure if this show ever aired here though) you might recognize this car from the show. Now, I have not seen this particular model in Sri Lanka at all. BUT this model is essentially a badge-engineered car from a different car maker's model. The car maker is popular in Sri Lanka, but the base model too is rare in SL. A derivative of the base model was discussed in this forum a long time ago.

 

Edited Wednesday at 02:34 AM by matroska

[Gummybr]

On 12/2/2025 at 8:00 PM, matroska said:

hahaha so since the cat is well and truly out of the bag the answer is 

*dong*feng 007/Jaecoo 007 brought to you by ....drumroll.... Chery! The makers who generously gave us the Chery QQ - a car that gave Sri Lankan's a negative impression on Chinese autos. 

 

Thats the one that looks like Range Rover right? 

 

I can say Sri Lanka is far ahead of adopting the Chinese brands

[matroska]

21 hours ago, Gummybr said:

Thats the one that looks like Range Rover right? 

 

I can say Sri Lanka is far ahead of adopting the Chinese brands

Yes the rear lights and design language is similar. Two small differences on close inspection the SUV has the continuous red line on top as opposed to the sedan where the continuous red line is on the bottom. There's just too many models to keep track of now. BTW want to have a guess on the current trivia? 

[iRage]

On 12/3/2025 at 11:31 AM, matroska said:

(I'm not sure if this show ever aired here though

Oh, it was on SL TV! I am pretty sure back in the day some of the posh Colombo 7 aunties based their personality traits on Hyacinth and were desperately trying to turn their husbands into Richards...but needless to say it was all in the bucket

I don't think I have seen the car with the same badge as the car from the TV show either.
As for the base model... actually, back in the day it wasn't that rare. There were more from the class competitors, true, but still quite a few around. It was the generation after this one that made the model much more mainstream. We have to keep in mind that back in the day, the number of cars imported was nowhere close to what it is now.

Edited 28 minutes ago by iRage

[iRage]

22 hours ago, Gummybr said:

I can say Sri Lanka is far ahead of adopting the Chinese brands

Fearfully for better or for worst.