Austarion

Posted: **Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:35 pm**

I recently acquired an australian built 1884 JA, but there is a "Bavaria" badge on the rear of the hatch. Is this authentic, as I've not seen this before.

Posted: **Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:23 pm**

To my knowledge mate the only cars to carry the BAVARIA moniker were
the BMW 2002 from 66-76 I think, and the E3 from 68-77.
Hard to see why a japanese brand would use the name of a european city on one of thier cars, unless it was a marketing push into europe.
Then again I can't really understand where or why they came up with some of the names they did either.

Posted: **Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:09 pm**

panda wrote:I recently acquired an australian built 1884 JA, but there is a "Bavaria" badge on the rear of the hatch. Is this authentic, as I've not seen this before.

congratulations, you must have one of the earlist Starions made rofl

Posted: **Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:29 am**

Oops ! Make that 1984

Posted: **Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:59 pm**

i think you might just have a starion that previously had a bavarian owner....

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:42 am**

Here's a photo of the mysterious badge. Has anyone seen this before. My guess is that this car was once owned by a 'bavarian' & this was his way of customising !
Show Image:

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:58 am**

Perhaps he couldn't afford a BMW, so badged up what he could afford?

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:33 pm**

A bit hard to make out, but this looks like the answer to your question, from a 1973 BMW Bavaria:

Posted: **Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:04 pm**

yahtzee!

ps all starions were built in japan.

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:52 am**

That last BMW is one of these:

Once upon a time, BMW actually made cars as cool looking as these, before they employed a blind designer, and later on, even worse, Chris Bangle!!

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:59 am**

That would have to be one of the sweetist looking BMW's! along with the dirty old 80's M3's with the flared box guards and the older M1

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:06 pm**

leave it on, imagine being pulled over for speeding and the cop writes you down as driving a 1984 Toyota Celica Bavaria.
Happy Days!

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:57 pm**

FST4RD wrote:That would have to be one of the sweetist looking BMW's! along with the dirty old 80's M3's with the flared box guards and the older M1

Yeah, I had one (they're called 2002's), have always looked for another, but prices for them now have at least tripled in the past couple of years. :(

Posted: **Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:26 pm**

Thanks everybody. Don't you just luv it when the forum really works !!!

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