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It depends, in which country you are, so from which angle you are looking. 
So for us Germans the majority of the British pre-1980-cars, vans and trucks are unknown for us. Except Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Mini and the little Roadsters like the Spitfire, MG Midget, etc.
So brands like Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam, Foden, ERF, Schammell, Vauxhall, the British Fords, Bedford, Vanden Plas, also the most Austin and Morris were never sold here.
You could see more British car in Denmark, Belgium and Austria than here.
Yes, a few ones were sold here, but the brands I have listed were and still are only known by a few fans and people with knowledge.
Also the most Brazilian VW's are unknwon here, the South African versions either, for example the Citi-Golf.
Same with the plenty of GM-cars. So the Corsa is well known over here, but noone knows the South African Corsa Pickup.
Everyone in Down Under and the Pacific region knows Holden - absolutely unknown in Europe. I don't know, how many holden's are running in Europe, perhaps a few in the UK and Ireland, on the continent less than a dozen, as I've heard somewhere.
Same with the Australian Fords.
There are many more examples:
- the most Spanish assembled cars, vans and trucks until the mid-80ies weren't exported
- many South Korean weren't exported. I've learned by IMCDB, how many inner-Korean cars are existing. "Samsung"-cars - never heard of it before.
- similar with Japanese cars. I've been there on vacations in 2003 and I've seen, that the most cars there were different than the exported ones, different names, different versions, often total different cars.
- same situation with US-cars. Over all the decades not many were exported to Europe (to Germany less than to Sweden or Switzerland). Several brands were absolutley unknown, except for freaks. Not only classics like De Soto, Kaiser, even Plymouth were never sold here, Saturn either. The only so-and-so known Pontiacs are the Firebird and the TransSport (of how this van is called).
Buick? Maybe the Park Avenue fro mthe 80ies is known by some people, but not more.
Even the German export-versions of the late 60ies, the Opel-Buicks are unknown.
Not to talk about the Chinese cars and the many others, which were assembled all around the world, often with own names and only for the using in that countries.
Not to forget the cars from Eastern Europe. Until the Wall felt down in 1989, there were only Lada's and Skoda's on the West German market. And a few hundreds of Tatra-trucks. That's all.
So this thread maybe will not to handle, because there will be too many "unknown" cars.
@taxiguy: yes, the Dodge 600 is absolutley unknown in Europe. Indeed.
So for us Germans the majority of the British pre-1980-cars, vans and trucks are unknown for us. Except Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Mini and the little Roadsters like the Spitfire, MG Midget, etc.
So brands like Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam, Foden, ERF, Schammell, Vauxhall, the British Fords, Bedford, Vanden Plas, also the most Austin and Morris were never sold here.
You could see more British car in Denmark, Belgium and Austria than here.
Yes, a few ones were sold here, but the brands I have listed were and still are only known by a few fans and people with knowledge.
Also the most Brazilian VW's are unknwon here, the South African versions either, for example the Citi-Golf.
Same with the plenty of GM-cars. So the Corsa is well known over here, but noone knows the South African Corsa Pickup.
Everyone in Down Under and the Pacific region knows Holden - absolutely unknown in Europe. I don't know, how many holden's are running in Europe, perhaps a few in the UK and Ireland, on the continent less than a dozen, as I've heard somewhere.
Same with the Australian Fords.
There are many more examples:
- the most Spanish assembled cars, vans and trucks until the mid-80ies weren't exported
- many South Korean weren't exported. I've learned by IMCDB, how many inner-Korean cars are existing. "Samsung"-cars - never heard of it before.
- similar with Japanese cars. I've been there on vacations in 2003 and I've seen, that the most cars there were different than the exported ones, different names, different versions, often total different cars.
- same situation with US-cars. Over all the decades not many were exported to Europe (to Germany less than to Sweden or Switzerland). Several brands were absolutley unknown, except for freaks. Not only classics like De Soto, Kaiser, even Plymouth were never sold here, Saturn either. The only so-and-so known Pontiacs are the Firebird and the TransSport (of how this van is called).
Buick? Maybe the Park Avenue fro mthe 80ies is known by some people, but not more.
Even the German export-versions of the late 60ies, the Opel-Buicks are unknown.
Not to talk about the Chinese cars and the many others, which were assembled all around the world, often with own names and only for the using in that countries.
Not to forget the cars from Eastern Europe. Until the Wall felt down in 1989, there were only Lada's and Skoda's on the West German market. And a few hundreds of Tatra-trucks. That's all.
So this thread maybe will not to handle, because there will be too many "unknown" cars.
@taxiguy: yes, the Dodge 600 is absolutley unknown in Europe. Indeed.