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Dear @londonadayatatime, this car is a 1991 Nissan Figaro.

This post breaks with the blog tradition by offering no exemplifying picture, to further encourage readers to visit the usual link to the dissertation on the car in question - a post that caused someone to buy a car from the other side of the world, and that fact may still undersell it. Its first part was posted from my main, @tumblehcendrum, because it predates my creation of both this blog and @things-about-cars-in-posts.

Again, do me and yourself a huge favor and visit that link for some of the greatest cars I've had the pleasure of witnessing. Whichever your feelings about cars, I promise you will not be disappointed.

Edinburgh, Scotland

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There is a 1992 first generation (known as YJ) Jeep Wrangler Sahara, at least. - @tumblehcendrum

welcome... to Nothing Park

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You're welcome :) How to get good at (identifying) Cars was discussed in this blog's first post and linked resources from its siblog (sibling blog) @things-about-cars-in-posts. - @tumblehcendrum

hello good afternoon good evening etc

i am trying to figure out the model of a car from a movie for fanfic reasons (unfortunately) and i'm dogshit at that so i have come to your Blog...

below i linked the specific scene, with the external shots of the car starting around 1:09

\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0Lte0nJzs (backslash for tumblr formatting reasons, not a part of the link)

thanks a bunch 👍

This car is a fourth generation (1999-2005*, known as A4) Volkswagen Jetta, generation also known as Bora.

See: shifter shape and chrome surround,

badge and taillight shape,

window and door handle shape.

This car was experienced by friend of the blog @chevyventure, much to his chagrin. - ID by @ldub0775, sage nodding and post by @tumblehcendrum.

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I was reading thru your blog, browsing the Volkswagen Beetle tag specifically, and found a note on how the Beetle is named after a bug in every language. Which is a really fun fact, but I'm sorry to say, there is at least one language that didn't follow suit...

In Finnish it's called "Kupla", which means "bubble".

This is an ask intended for this blog's factoid-dispensing counterpart, @things-about-cars-in-posts.

See: the reference to its Beetle post, OP's following ask.

The issue of getting blogs wrong is alluded to in its pinned and exemplified in one of its (or, technically, this very blog's) posts. - @tumblehcendrum

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This car is a 1950 Buick Special Deluxe Sedan.

See: The picture @matthewgrantanson posted right before this one.

- ID by @thepackingcroco, post by @tumblehcendrum

Bonus: the audio file I sent upon the identification.

1950s Tech, Zion National Park -- March 27th, 2025

Etsy

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This car is the 2014-2018 M version of the sixth generation (2011-2018, known as F80) BMW 3 series, which, due to the first generation 3 series not receiving an M version, is the fifth generation BMW M3.

Differences between the two (bumper, fenders, stance, badging) can be seen by comparing the original picture (second non-watermarked picture of a car in a real world environment in the Google Images results for "car back") with a regular F80 3 Series picture (incidentally, first such result, likely discarded by OP over its tall crop, slightly angled car orientation or darker paint shade).

The BMW M3 was briefly discussed in a post about the BMW art cars by blog origin @things-about-cars-in-posts. - @tumblehcendrum

recreated the nightmare i had where i got into a car crash because i got blinded by this bumper sticker

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This is a 1972 Ford Galaxie LTD hearse.

See: wide body-color B-pillar with a badge, body shape without a raised roof, big ol' Mourn Hub sticker that eventually led me to the owner's Instagram

- @brick-enthusiast

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From Masculin-Féminin, mid-60s Paris. This car on the right has a very distinctive and strange front bit🤔

This car is a 1962-1967 Citroën DS. See: the post-1962 front bumper, the pre-1967 headlights.

To learn why it may also be a Citroën ID, see it in all its various beauties, and much more, see the @things-about-cars-in-posts​ retrospective on the model and its variations. - @tumblehcendrum

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hello good afternoon good evening etc

i am trying to figure out the model of a car from a movie for fanfic reasons (unfortunately) and i'm dogshit at that so i have come to your Blog...

below i linked the specific scene, with the external shots of the car starting around 1:09

\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0Lte0nJzs (backslash for tumblr formatting reasons, not a part of the link)

thanks a bunch 👍

This car is a fourth generation (1999-2005*, known as A4) Volkswagen Jetta, generation also known as Bora.

See: shifter shape and chrome surround,

badge and taillight shape,

window and door handle shape.

This car was experienced by friend of the blog @chevyventure, much to his chagrin. - ID by @ldub0775, sage nodding and post by @tumblehcendrum.

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cicada molted on my car overnight. what miracles this world holds for us

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This is a third generation (2008-2019) Nissan Cube.

See: position of panel gap along the fender, 195/60 R15 tires, four bolt wheels, inner fender liner, OP's later confirmation.

The Nissan Cube was a contender for the title of most nonbinary car in a post by this blog's explainy counterpart @things-about-cars-in-posts, which also discussed its even funkier lineage and, for the benefit of @judeusinabsentia, bolt count and its evolution in time (though I should note, the four bolts are still alive and well in smaller segments).

- @tumblehcendrum

cicada molted on my car overnight. what miracles this world holds for us

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This car is a 1979-1986 third generation Ford Mustang (known as Foxbody).

See: the small rear quarter glass with louvres behind it, replaced in 1987 by a larger window.

A Mustang retro- (and side-) spective was written by this blog's pant-leg-tugging little sibling @things-about-cars-in-posts

- @tumblehcendrum

I've been doing some soul searching and exploring and ended up discovering this incredible 1968 Mustang in the woods.

See more on my Instagram

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This car is not a sixth generation BMW 3 Series Touring (2011-2018, known as F31).

See: inner taillight edge, edges of license plate recess, wiper direction, glass latch under the wiper, window border shape.

It is a third generation BMW X5 (2013-2018, known as F15).

When reached for comment, @brick-enthusiast responded with "god mother[]'$'Ł[]$>Ł$* dangit" - @tumblehcendrum

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One thing I unfortunately discovered when making this post is the first gen Tundra's stepside version. What do I mean by unfortunately? We'll get to that later. What do I mean by stepside, though, we're getting to now!

See, normally, truck beds have flat sides along the width of the body... could you kindly-

thank you! So that the bed, though it will need to feature some humps to give the wheels room to be, can otherwise be wider. Can you kindly show us the inside?

Thanks! Lowrider minitrucks, so lovely <3

On the other end, a stepside bed (also known, depending on the company, as flareside, fenderside, utiline, thriftside, sportside why am I getting flashbacks) has its sides to the inside of the wheel wells...

...so that its bed is perfectly rectangular...

...and has little steps on the sides, that can be used for bed access or to assist loading/unloading.

In practice, I hear, the only time since the days of wooden TVs that a meaningful amount of people have wanted to step up was 2008...

...and the few trucks that kept stepside versions around did so mostly for looks' sake.

Because why would you drive around in this...

...when you could drive around in this?

*buzzer* "So my vehicle doesn't look like it's morphing into an angry toasterhead shark?" "That is correct!" *balloon and confetti pours from the ceiling as two models carry out a table-sized check*

Sorry, stepside Tundra lovers - I guess y'all should've joined the TACIP Discord to intervene when I first bashed it there >:P (And yes, that is what led us to talk about the Ranger Splash.)

But if it helps, I do agree with my boy @ldub0775 on the Tacoma's.

See? We're at least three!

Four!

Bring all you've got, stepsiders! You can't take us down. We're an army! Plus, I'm rich!

*looks at the check*

*it's for 25 dollars*

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

Morning drives

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Yes.

Morning drives

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This car is a third generation BMW X5 (2013-2018, known as F15)...

...and not, as this post previously stated, a sixth-generation (2011-2018, F31) BMW 3 Series Touring.

- @brick-enthusiast & @tumblehcendrum

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This car is a 1985-2012 Land Rover Defender.

See: outset fascia - @ldub0775

The Wrong Turn

Guess who's back here? I had a bumpy ride but I made it eventually.