Saw a car I didn't recognise in one of the small towns near here today (a very rare occurrence). It was new, impeccable and looked something like a compact, but not that compact, American car. A bit like a modern Ford Mustang, not entirely unlike a Vauxhall/Holden snorting monster.
Logos on the tail said Avenger and something like VRX. What could it have been?
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Was there a Hillman badge on it?
Or one of these?
www.dodge.com/en/avenger/
Last edited by: Old Navy on Thu 18 Dec 14 at 18:14
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Don't be silly ON. Did the description sound like the description of an old Hillman Avenger? If it did, I must brush up my verbal skills.
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The odd thing about the Hillman Avenger was the handbrake lever was between the seat and the drivers door.l remember well the time I forgot to use it in a rented one, my ears are still ringing from the "advice" I was given when wife and baby daughter rolled into the road.
The baby is now 40 odd. :)
Last edited by: Old Navy on Thu 18 Dec 14 at 18:25
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>> The odd thing about the Hillman Avenger was the handbrake lever was between the seat
>> and the drivers door
Standard Hillman thing. Dad's Hunter was same. So, iirc, was the Austin Cambridge and stablemates.
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I thought my 1725cc Hunter was such a big powerful car at the time.
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>>The odd thing about the Hillman Avenger was the handbrake lever was between the seat and the drivers door<<
Seems a reasonable place to me. I grew up with that arrangement. My XJS has one there, albeit with a device that lets it lie flat out of the way, even when on.
It would be odd if the gear lever was there, as in Bentley/RRs, Riley 2.6, Morris Isis and so on. I've often wanted to try one just to see what feels like, in the same way I've often wanted to try a Model T Ford with pedals.
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>> ???
That looks very like the one. But it didn't say Dodge on the tail as that one does. And certainly didn't say Vauxhall anywhere. But it may have said SXT rather than VRX. Seems likely indeed.
I looked it over but quite briefly. It was an auto.
Badging often varies for different markets I guess, and may change during a model's lifetime. Definitely came from a major manufacturer from the cut of its jib.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Thu 18 Dec 14 at 18:32
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Was it definitely badged Vauxhall? I assume it was if a VXR. The current Holden badged Vauxhall is the VXR8 GTS for example but it's a 4 door... So probably not confused with a Mustang?
tinyurl.com/nfsfasf
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Are we suggesting AC can't make out SXT and thought it was VXR? But the car is an Avenger if it was the Dodge and more closely matches what he described.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Thu 18 Dec 14 at 18:22
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>> Or one of these?
It was very like one or two of those. But it definitely said Avenger on the back, and none of those is called an Avenger.
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Dodge Avenger was not a success.
I remember when I bought my Forester in the doldrums of 2008 they were selling Avengers in 2-for-1 deals (iirc list was around 16k, so 2 cars at 8k each)
www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/owners-reviews/dodge/avenger/saloon-2007/review/5083/
Last edited by: Lygonos on Thu 18 Dec 14 at 18:43
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So nothing to do with Emma Peel then? Best played by Diana Rigg, a classy Yorkshire lass.
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I was more of a Purdy man. Well, boy.
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"Best played by Diana Rigg, a classy Yorkshire lass."
No I wouldn't.
But Joan Collins, yes I would. And she's even older.
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>> Dodge Avenger was not a success.
Doesn't mean it was useless in every way though. A nice fat new slightly out-of-date jalopy for 8,000 quid could be a bargain for a non-enthusiast with that sort of money who didn't go in for nerdish car snobbery.
I think its problem in the market might have been its intermediate-intermediats size, neither one thing nor the other, neither a Mustang (intermediate in US terms) nor a Dodge Dart, a proper smallish car.
Things aren't what they used to be. I'm pretty out of touch these days.
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>>But it definitely said Avenger on the back, and none of those is called an Avenger.
3rd picture down.
www.allpar.com/reviews/2011/avenger-dodge.html
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>> 3rd picture down.
Quite right FMR. But the one I saw had Avenger in big letters across the centre, like the name Dodge in the one you show, and that name Dodge appeared nowhere on the one I saw. Same car no doubt though or very similar.
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Was it actually sold as a Dodge in the UK? Might have been a Chrysler, hence lack of Dodge badge.
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What's an Avenger? - Old Navy
