# What car is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627 "2022-07-27T00:13:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/1 "2022-07-27T00:13:15Z")
I’ve tried googling and a reverse image search but didn’t have any luck. [Old car.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSDhyQo1OIzcpLSHHBoQKAdIzOgu-H8v/view?usp=drivesdk) ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/2 "2022-07-27T00:21:09Z")
I did a Google Lens search, expecting a result from 1960s Britain or Italy, but it turns out it’s a Nissan Figaro from 1991 ! > **[Nissan Figaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Figaro)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > The Nissan Figaro is a front-engine, front-wheel drive, two-door, 2+2, fixed-profile convertible manufactured by Nissan for model year 1991, and marketed in Japan at Nissan Cherry Stores. > A total of 20,073 Figaros were produced by Nissan in the convertible's single year of series production—all with right hand drive. There are a few examples of left hand drive conversions for those countries that have right hand traffic. > As a fixed-profile conver... ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/3 "2022-07-27T00:27:53Z")
Awesome. Thanks! I’ve never heard of a lens search. I assumed it was 50’s European something. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/4 "2022-07-27T00:35:30Z")
Google Lens is an application for mobile phones, you can give it an image to search for or simply take a picture directly in the application, and it gives you links and other images that match it. That functionality is a bit like Google Image Search, but for some reason it’s better at recognising objects and shapes. It also offers some weird augmented reality functionality like translating text directly on the image. ([article](https://www.androidauthority.com/google-lens-translation-dining-text-992191/)) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/5 "2022-07-27T01:00:54Z")
Ah. OK. I have an iPhone and there doesn’t appear to be an iOS version of Lens. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/6 "2022-07-27T01:35:26Z")
There is a version for iPhone, it’s in the App Store. Search for Google Lens for iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/7 "2022-07-27T04:58:27Z")
Gosh. Since the question is answered, I can’t help but say that the first time I ever saw one was about 10 minutes ago, and it is parked about 20 metres away from me as I type this. It is drawing some attention from passers by. ---
**Author:** ![QMatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@QMatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QMatic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/8 "2022-07-27T05:49:40Z")
You see a few of them here in the UK because they were built for the Japanese market where they also drive on the left. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/9 "2022-07-27T05:54:52Z")
(Veering way off from Factual Questions answers, but since the answer has been provided) … did anyone else vaguely think of [Karmann Ghia?](https://www.google.com/search?as_st=y&tbm=isch&hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=Karmann+Ghia&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgar=&imgcolor=&imgtype=&cr=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/10 "2022-07-27T12:00:25Z")
There’s definitely a resemblance to the Karmann Ghia, but I was thinking of another German mini car of the 50s, the Goggomobil. [![](https://www.glasclub.de/images/stories/Fahrzeuge/Goggo_Cp/Goggo-H-Schauerte_023-960.jpg) ](https://www.glasclub.de/images/stories/Fahrzeuge/Goggo_Cp/Goggo-H-Schauerte_023-960.jpg) [![](https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2017/4/5/b/2/5/b25ebeba-19e6-11e7-971d-838ee3ef16f2.jpg) ](https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2017/4/5/b/2/5/b25ebeba-19e6-11e7-971d-838ee3ef16f2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/11 "2022-07-27T12:08:50Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > I did a Google Lens search, expecting a result from 1960s Britain or Italy, but it turns out it’s a Nissan Figaro from 1991 ! > [Nissan Figaro - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Figaro) - [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HE2dKZ492TA/maxresdefault.jpg "The Nissan Figaro is a Lovely, Retro-Inspired, Convertible From Japan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE2dKZ492TA) ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-car-is-this/968627/12 "2022-07-27T12:11:05Z")
Answered before I even saw it. What’s funny to me is I remember when that car was new. It was a retro model designed to look like an old car from the 1950s. That car is now as old as the models it was aping were when it came out. It really is an old car, if not as old as it may look. My humble opinion is that the success of the home-market-only Nissan Pike Factory retro models led to the wave of retro cars that started in the 1990s. We have the Figaro and its siblings to thank for the New Beetle, PT Cruiser, Ford Thunderbird, Mini, Fiat 500, etc., etc. some of which came out a roughly 15 years after the Nissan.