Quick Trivia 3

[Duan27]

  On 12/9/2024 at 5:28 AM, matroska said:

Correct! DM to collect your coconut 😛 

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I shall take you up on that offer soon one of these days, given how coconuts are valuable commodities these days 😂

Here’s the next one - Guess the car having the following interior (Should be an easy guess given its peculiarity)

(Image shown is a LHD version, but the RHD version over is essentially the same except the flipped center console)

[Gummybr]

  On 12/9/2024 at 2:02 PM, Duan27 said:

I shall take you up on that offer soon one of these days, given how coconuts are valuable commodities these days 😂

Here’s the next one - Guess the car having the following interior (Should be an easy guess given its peculiarity)

(Image shown is a LHD version, but the RHD version over is essentially the same except the flipped center console)

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Once a very successful rally car, never really took off in Sri Lanka due to its design and brand name. In the 2000s the local racing scene witnessed two model from the brand, but not this model, sadly the performance version of this was very like warm.

[iRage]

  On 12/9/2024 at 2:02 PM, Duan27 said:

I shall take you up on that offer soon one of these days, given how coconuts are valuable commodities these days 😂

Here’s the next one - Guess the car having the following interior (Should be an easy guess given its peculiarity)

(Image shown is a LHD version, but the RHD version over is essentially the same except the flipped center console)

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Ah yes...the Citrus-y lemony car that has a strong desire to help humanity

I think the dashboard-center-mounted power window switches are a dead give-away...

[matroska]

  On 12/9/2024 at 2:02 PM, Duan27 said:

Guess the car having the following interior

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The model is not as  X-clusive  as you'd think given the brand that promotes Creative Technology had an obsession with X during the 90's.. We had this in the trivia last year, and we focused mainly on the exterior. Oui Oui! Let's us now have a croissant 

Edited December 10, 2024 by matroska

[Gummybr]

  On 12/10/2024 at 2:38 AM, iRage said:

Ah yes...the Citrus-y lemony car that has a strong desire to help humanity

I think the dashboard-center-mounted power window switches are a dead give-away...

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It was the door panel and the matching seat design along with the weird door handle that gave it away for me. My initial days in the industry I was bought up alongside these. Only one I couldn't drive was the Saxo as it was in race trim and we used to generally push it into place rather than starting the thing.

[iRage]

  On 12/10/2024 at 4:43 AM, Gummybr said:

it was in race trim and we used to generally push it into place rather than starting the thing.

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Hope this was done after hours, behind closed curtains. People seeing it might have thought the car is broken even before it left the showroom  Please ! leave that accolade for Lada

Sadly we will not see these things again in showrooms for a very very very long time.

Edited December 10, 2024 by iRage

[Gummybr]

  On 12/10/2024 at 4:52 AM, iRage said:

Hope this was done after hours, behind closed curtains. People seeing it might have thought the car is broken even before it left the showroom  Please ! leave that accolade for Lada

Sadly we will not see these things again in showrooms for a very very very long time.

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Nah it was the company car, it was more of a show piece. It ran many an event in the SL1600 events. One time it held the record for its class at Mahagastota.

There was one guy who had made a Sri Lanka home page on Facebook.

Agency was with Browns and changed hands to new company that was formed when Browns gave up the motor division. It was more or less dead by that time and no one wanted to take up the agency. Few new models that have come up since then but I don't think it will be back as brand in Sri Lanka given the issues the Stellantis group is having.

[iRage]

  On 12/10/2024 at 5:50 AM, Gummybr said:

Few new models that have come up since then but I don't think it will be back as brand in Sri Lanka given the issues the Stellantis group is having.

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True....but at this rate its hard to imagine any agent wanting to keep display cars at their showrooms. Other than the Chinese brands of course..

[Duan27]

Xsara it is!

Over to you guys @iRage/ @matroska! (Assuming @Gummybr would prefer answering again? - if not, please do go ahead!)

[matroska]

@iRage - floors yours! 

[iRage]

Since we took a drastic turn...here you go...

What many will not realize is that fully decked out this vehicle can have a ridiculous amount of buttons. What is really freaky is that the number of buttons literally grew during its decade and a half of existence. What is quite frustrating about it was that they changed the location of certain key features every time they did the update (people who drove multiple variants of the car..say in a fleet...found this rather frustrating).

In case you haven't figured out what the vehicle is yet...the clue is in one of the buttons. This feature was not offered by other Japanese manufacturers. At the time it was first introduced (one of the first to introduce it) this was a big deal as only a few other manufacturers offered it and NOT as a standard feature (this was standard on this vehicle).

 

Just look at the change around the shifter bezel...

[Gummybr]

  On 12/11/2024 at 5:04 AM, iRage said:

Since we took a drastic turn...here you go...

What many will not realize is that fully decked out this vehicle can have a ridiculous amount of buttons. What is really freaky is that the number of buttons literally grew during its decade and a half of existence. What is quite frustrating about it was that they changed the location of certain key features every time they did the update (people who drove multiple variants of the car..say in a fleet...found this rather frustrating).

In case you haven't figured out what the vehicle is yet...the clue is in one of the buttons. This feature was not offered by other Japanese manufacturers. At the time it was first introduced (one of the first to introduce it) this was a big deal as only a few other manufacturers offered it and NOT as a standard feature (this was standard on this vehicle).

 

Just look at the change around the shifter bezel...

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To have these in a fleet in Sri Lanka has to be the government.  Shifter pattern should tell you the brand. I was expecting it to be the older version but nope it's from the generation before the current.

The feature you are referring to is the crawl function?

[matroska]

So I don't have the exact answer but I think the features you mentioned were either the Roll Sensing Airbag Curtains or Electronically controlled power transmission. I'd say it was the latter - and that would be Toyota. (interestingly i did a bit of reading on it a few weeks back after I noticed it was available on the 210 series Corona and Carina) Given your clues I'm guessing this is the Land Cruiser Sahara. 

[iRage]

Land Cruiser 200 it is !

So either @Gummybr or @matroska can take the floor.

The feature I was referring to was the Turn Assist feature. Back in the day (way back in 2013ish) the LC200 was one of the first to offer it as standard (Japanese manufacturers did not). Manufacturers like Ford offered it on their full-sized trucks in the US but it was an option.

The fleets I was referring to was the UN  In some duty stations they have fleets comprised of the MK1, MK2 and MK3....drivers often shift between the vehicles and find it annoying as it messes up their muscle memory when reaching out for the functions.

The SL govt does have fleets too I suppose but I doubt any one who uses them actually uses these functions.

 

Edited December 11, 2024 by iRage

[amsandun]

  On 12/11/2024 at 5:04 AM, iRage said:

In case you haven't figured out what the vehicle is yet...the clue is in one of the buttons.

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Can you point to that button in your phots please? Does Turn Assist mean something like the current Blind Spot monitoring system?

[Gummybr]

  On 12/11/2024 at 11:51 AM, amsandun said:

Can you point to that button in your phots please? Does Turn Assist mean something like the current Blind Spot monitoring system?

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On the first pic the button in front of the rotating knob and on the third left side button in front of the lower rotating knob.

[Gummybr]

  On 12/11/2024 at 10:12 AM, iRage said:

Land Cruiser 200 it is !

So either @Gummybr or @matroska can take the floor.

The feature I was referring to was the Turn Assist feature. Back in the day (way back in 2013ish) the LC200 was one of the first to offer it as standard (Japanese manufacturers did not). Manufacturers like Ford offered it on their full-sized trucks in the US but it was an option.

The fleets I was referring to was the UN  In some duty stations they have fleets comprised of the MK1, MK2 and MK3....drivers often shift between the vehicles and find it annoying as it messes up their muscle memory when reaching out for the functions.

The SL govt does have fleets too I suppose but I doubt any one who uses them actually uses these functions.

 

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@matroska can go ahead.

Oh yes internationally it's been the vehicle of choice for the UN and all.

No no in Sri Lanka just the V8 badge would suffice for the crowd. Only a handful will make use of the features, for most some of these buttons and cosmetic stuff are just things to show off or something that gives you more market value regardless of you making use of it at all. I think only the Aussie and the African countries use them for what they are.

[iRage]

  On 12/11/2024 at 11:51 AM, amsandun said:

Can you point to that button in your phots please? Does Turn Assist mean something like the current Blind Spot monitoring system?

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No..Turn Assist reduces the vehicle's turning radius. It does it by pulsating the brakes of rear wheel of the direction you are turning. The locking creates drag/anchor on that wheel creating a pivot point. You would think it is not that much of a big deal but it is amazing how a reduction in even a few centimeters helps.

  On 12/12/2024 at 4:46 AM, Gummybr said:

I think only the Aussie and the African countries use them for what they are.

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Yes...Aussies and the Africans (especially the South Africans) are the markets that utilize the full capabilities of the LC. The Middle Easterners come close but considering they only have desert terrain it sort of uses only part of the vehicle's capabilties. This is why I think when it comes to off-roading kits the Aussies and South Africans do a much better job than anyone else.

[amsandun]

  On 12/13/2024 at 4:59 AM, iRage said:

No..Turn Assist reduces the vehicle's turning radius. It does it by pulsating the brakes of rear wheel of the direction you are turning. The locking creates drag/anchor on that wheel creating a pivot point. You would think it is not that much of a big deal but it is amazing how a reduction in even a few centimeters helps.

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Thanks for the explanation iRage.

[matroska]

Sorry about the delay gentlemen. 

[Gummybr]

They have come a long way from the knock off vehicles they made in the early 2000s. They still do make a few knock offs based on the popular G Class and the Wrangler models.

  On 12/18/2024 at 5:09 AM, matroska said:

Sorry about the delay gentlemen. 

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This is off one of their brands, shows how much industry has grown in the last two decades. 

[matroska]

  On 12/18/2024 at 5:41 AM, Gummybr said:

They have come a long way from the knock off vehicles they made in the early 2000s. They still do make a few knock offs based on the popular G Class and the Wrangler models.

This is off one of their brands, shows how much industry has grown in the last two decades. 

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[amsandun]

  On 12/18/2024 at 6:07 AM, matroska said:

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Is he correct? If so we got to perform this test on him.

[iRage]

If a Chinese brand can do it...why not the others ? I think Toyota Tokyo...Peugeot Paris (to be pronounced Paree), VW Berlin, Alfa Romeo Rome...

[matroska]

  On 12/18/2024 at 11:00 AM, amsandun said:

Is he correct

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well I mean he never gave the answer and iRage dropped a Huge clue but still technically you can answer.