The cars that should have been built ...
03/26/2020
No, there was never officially an estate version of the Ford Lotus Cortina ex works. But it would have been a hot car. The powerful engine from the Lotus Elan combined with a practical family car with cargo space and rear doors - this recipe could have been the perfect predecessor to the RS2, S4 and co. There is at least one conversion, which will go under the hammer at RM/Sotheby's on the occasion of the Elkart auction .
Something similar would have been conceivable with the BMW M3 E30. After all, there was also a convertible, and the fender extensions would certainly have looked good on the E30 Touring, although it was a five-door model. But you could have built a three-door estate. And then do the same thing again on the E36. The conversion would have been even easier here.
Mercedes fans might have liked a 500 TE, preferably assembled by Porsche, like the first 500 E back then.
A Ferrari 365 GTC/4 Spider was never available ex works either. In this case, at least the "cut-ups" created a private alternative. We reported on it.
And was a VW Golf GTI Variant ever sold? No, but it could certainly have been sold to men and women.
The open-top Matra Murena was never built either, although I already had it on my drawing pad in the 1980s. But it never came.
Which cars that should have been built are you missing? Comment and tell us about the cars that unfortunately never came onto the market, even though you would have liked to have bought them!
