2 points for this puzzle!
1 point for telling what it exactly is.
1 point for an accurate additional information that I could freely use. In fact I have one source that provides little info about it, but I don't know how accurate it is.
Good luck!
Let's hear it for large pictures!!!!
;)
Quote from: Ultra on September 14, 2008, 12:38:55 AM
Let's hear it for large pictures!!!!
;)
Sorry, no larger pictures are available.. The website has only this one :-(
Quote from: Arunas on September 14, 2008, 01:08:38 AM
Sorry, no larger pictures are available.. The website has only this one :-(
Just pickin' on you.
:P
Maybe it is time time for the Experts to say what they think...
I had a picture of this one on my harddisk a long time ago, but it's been deleted, and so has the webpage it was on. It was American, and its name was Shrike Mk2 - but other than that, I'm afraid I have no information.
Quote from: @re on September 15, 2008, 05:56:44 AM
I had a picture of this one on my harddisk a long time ago, but it's been deleted, and so has the webpage it was on. It was American, and its name was Shrike Mk2 - but other than that, I'm afraid I have no information.
Yeah! It is Shrike Mk2, but it is so mysterious, that it looks there is no information about it :( only one link...
Here is another, slightly larger, pic of the Shrike. I believe it may actually have been British, not American, but it was certainly a defunct brand by 2006.
I've been searching all over for some more information on this, too, because I thought it would have been made a great puzzle. But it seems it's not as obscure as I think - both Arunas and Quiller knew about it ;) - goes to show that the people on this site really are the World's Best at identifying mystery cars!
Quote from: Quiller on September 15, 2008, 05:33:30 PM
Here is another, slightly larger, pic of the Shrike. I believe it may actually have been British, not American, but it was certainly a defunct brand by 2006.
Thank You! Really +1 :D
I`m just pulling this up...I`ve some info to add later.....
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 09, 2008, 01:46:06 PM
I`m just pulling this up...I`ve some info to add later.....
Hey Paul! I (and I think other users) would be pleased!
Those info are from 2005.
Shrike Cars, 6, Old Field Weston, CT 06883, USA
Tel +1203/4540800, http://www.shrikecars.com
Shrike has built a sports car with a kevlar body and centrally located Twin-turbo 3.5-liter hp engine (top speed of 255km/h, 0-100km/h in 3.9s) engine since 1999. The new MK II model is in preparation and scheduled for production in China as of 2006. Price: USD 125,000.
There is the same pic of this yellow car but there is written MK I below.
Thanks! I perfectly know the source the text was taken from and because of I couldn't find anything more I think it is one of pseudo-cars, that may not have been built and the pictures possibly are just 3D CAD's.... But I have no idea where the second picture in this topic comes from.. Maybe You know?
P.S. The official links seems to be not working for a very long time ;D
These info comes from a catalogue that is available in pdf format, that's why it's here with me...I do not know where the 2nd pic cames from...at home I've got at least 2 more books where I can find something more, I'll keep you posted.
Superb!
Does it look familiar?
(no points for identifying this one.... ;))
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 20, 2008, 01:05:57 PM
Does it look familiar?
(no points for identifying this one.... ;))
Is it really the same Shrike? Looks to be the renderings.....
Quote from: Arunas on October 20, 2008, 03:16:02 PM
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 20, 2008, 01:05:57 PM
Does it look familiar?
(no points for identifying this one.... ;))
Is it really the same Shrike? Looks to be the renderings.....
I'd think scale model or mock-up rather than rendering.
Whait a moment...you do not know this car? OK, this is another ..car...from another manufacturer, but they do share another thing, beside the shape of course...
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2008, 10:25:00 AM
Whait a moment...you do not know this car? OK, this is another ..car...from another manufacturer, but they do share another thing, beside the shape of course...
The pictures looks pretty familiar.. Probably I saw them some time ago, but really can't tell what it is... The shape also is very similar.. But Paul Jaray, could You tell me in general: Was Shrike a fake car or was it real (at least one has been ever made ???)...
I'm sure you saw this car...it cames from a very big car-maker still in business (indeed!)...about the Shrike I'm afraid I can't give you more info from here, I'll have a couple of books to look into at home, but I can only imagine that the 2nd picture is at least a full scale model and not a 3D cad design, becuse of the details and the reflections on the windows...about my 3 pics, I think it's just a rendering, but wich one? ::)
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2008, 11:10:21 AM
I'm sure you saw this car...it cames from a very big car-maker still in business (indeed!)...about the Shrike I'm afraid I can't give you more info from here, I'll have a couple of books to look into at home, but I can only imagine that the 2nd picture is at least a full scale model and not a 3D cad design, becuse of the details and the reflections on the windows...about my 3 pics, I think it's just a rendering, but wich one? ::)
The 2nd picture of white car should be a rendering.. But what is that "big company" - author of these designs ???
The 2nd yellow car, the one Quiller posted, should be real or a scale model. About my pics...they are from a big company, still in business today, and this proposal has something in common with the Shrike....if nobody guesses, I can consider to post it like a new puzzle!
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2008, 12:50:47 PM
The 2nd yellow car, the one Quiller posted, should be real or a scale model. About my pics...they are from a big company, still in business today, and this proposal has something in common with the Shrike....if nobody guesses, I can consider to post it like a new puzzle!
Japanese?
Here you go! It is Japanese..
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2008, 02:52:45 PM
Here you go! It is Japanese..
Toyota was my first idea before after You said it is BIG! :D
It is, in fact, a Toyota Shrike!!!
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 21, 2008, 03:19:25 PM
It is, in fact, a Toyota Shrike!!!
Any more information available, maybe a link or what? (If You could of cource!)
I'm afraid I can't resume the origin of these pics, but if you google "toyota shrike" you will find a couple of forum talking about this model...I can't tell you more 'cause I can't open them!
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 22, 2008, 08:36:49 AM
I'm afraid I can't resume the origin of these pics, but if you google "toyota shrike" you will find a couple of forum talking about this model...I can't tell you more 'cause I can't open them!
Have tried opening the first link for "toyota shrike"? 3M sound very strangely......
I recently discovered this print-out from the now-defunct Shrike website with the car's spec listed. I also found a UK telephone number written next to it!
Quote from: Quiller on February 05, 2009, 12:47:46 PM
I recently discovered this print-out from the now-defunct Shrike website with the car's spec listed. I also found a UK telephone number written next to it!
Thank You very much, Quiller.. But British? Hmmmm, I thought it was American...
Quote from: Arunas on February 05, 2009, 01:27:22 PM
Quote from: Quiller on February 05, 2009, 12:47:46 PM
I recently discovered this print-out from the now-defunct Shrike website with the car's spec listed. I also found a UK telephone number written next to it!
Thank You very much, Quiller.. But British? Hmmmm, I thought it was American...
I will try ringing the number and see if it still works!
I came across this ad in a magazine dated May 1999 promoting the car
Much thanks, woodinsight!
This car isnt that obscure. I had a bookmark to the site for a long time. They never really went anywhere with the car though.
The Shrike Mk I was originally intended to be based on Toyota MR2 power.
Shrike Cars appears to have been based in Weston, Connecticut, and Scientrier, France.
Some time before 2012, the yellow Shrike Mk II was in a Latvian auto marketplace. It was a fiberglass shell on a tube frame. It only had wheels on one side, the other side was held up by bricks. (from old Hooniverse post).
Here are a couple of brochure pages.
Rare Shrike MkII on the road!
Just come across details of a US court case - the IRS went after Shrike Cars founder Paul Weaver. Seems Shrike Cars was, at best, a pretty nebulous concern.
Some fascinating quotes from the transcript:
"Shrike Cars, also referred to as Automotive Design & Engineering, is the working name given to at least some of petitioners' endeavors in the automotive field... Since approximately 1994 the Shrike Cars project has sought to identify emerging automotive technologies and to develop them with strategic partners. At the time of trial in late 2003, petitioners had not stopped using the working name Shrike Cars and had not disposed of Shrike Cars."
"The cursory, single-page "5 YEAR FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS" document submitted by petitioners bases the listed gross sales figures on the number of "Mark I" and "Mark II" vehicles (labels not otherwise used in the record) sold, from an estimated 4 in 1999 to 260 in 2003."
"an ostensible partner of Shrike Cars, TRA Racing, had by 1995 developed and manufactured a few prototype lightweight vehicles (880 lbs.) powered by Kawasaki engines and using Mini Domino bodies. Petitioners contend that at an undisclosed later date TRA Racing used bodies designed by Shrike Cars on a small number of similar vehicles. Nonetheless, there remains no indication that either of the 1995 proposals, or any other possible automotive proposal advanced prior to 2003, ever went forward so as to generate ongoing development or production activity on the part of Shrike Cars"
"Mr. Weaver testified at trial that "the important point is we don't manufacture vehicles. We are the design, concept, prototyping people. Other people then pick up from there to manufacture it and move it into the marketplace, but we will sell it for them." He described Shrike Cars as "a
resource for innovative development of automotive concepts, design, engineering and marketing, providing a complete service for consulting, concept and design development, styling, scale-model building and prototypes."
"Materials from the 1994 to 1995 period promote the idea of designing one-of-a-kind vehicles for celebrities, of producing reduced-emission vehicles for commercial applications, of redesigning existing vehicle models for an overseas manufacturer, and of developing a motorcycle-
powered sports car. The 2003 proposal then relates to the "development of a unique sports car made specifically for the China market." ... Two of the proposals contained in the record, those related to the motorcycle-powered vehicle and the sports car for China, set forth a plan or integrated step labeled "marketing". The activities described thereunder include the creation of a brand identity encompassing logo, badge, and
official colors; the development of sales and distributions networks; the preparation of marketing materials such as brochures, CD/DVDs, and videos; targeted advertising campaigns in television and print media; introduction of vehicles at automobile shows; provision of loaner vehicles to driving schools; and consideration of a motorsports program to build brand awareness and prestige. Again, the evidence does not show
that the Shrike Cars vehicle venture ever reached a stage with respect to any product that included similar comprehensive efforts that would correlate with these descriptions of a marketing program."
"The sole item related to the Shrike name that the evidence could suggest was commercially marketed prior to 1996 was a line of auto care products. Petitioners introduced a picture of a bottle of "Shrike Coach Wash"" (!)