Did You See Anything Good Today? [Read First Post]
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You.....rushintouchin......how dare you call a Aston Martin like that one of the most beautiful of them, a Jaguar!!!
There's one. Come on daan, get in here and make it two.
YSSMAN
Purple? You mean dark red?
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Ha ha. Seriously though, for some reason I like Purple cars...
Its the best image I can find of the color... I've personally never seen too many in that color. Most of them around here are either black, red or yellow. Silver too I guess...
Its the best image I can find of the color... I've personally never seen too many in that color. Most of them around here are either black, red or yellow. Silver too I guess...
I've never seen any that color - I tend to like purple as a color, but rarely on cars, save the Lamborghini Diablo SE30 Jota. Another car I'd like to see.
Most GTOs I see (and it's a miracle when I see one) are silver, red, or black. Silver is a bad color - I always used to argue that it's nice that the car looks boring because then it's a sleeper, but silver just makes it look like a rental car. Black is good, I suppose, and of course red and yellow are more fitting to the performance of the vehicle. I'm not sure I'd buy it in that purple color.
Just a Jaguar! A Jaguar with Aston badges! Look at the similarities between that vehicle and the Jaguar XK8 which debuted much earlier. Oh what a Jaguar that Jaguar is!
Most GTOs I see (and it's a miracle when I see one) are silver, red, or black. Silver is a bad color - I always used to argue that it's nice that the car looks boring because then it's a sleeper, but silver just makes it look like a rental car. Black is good, I suppose, and of course red and yellow are more fitting to the performance of the vehicle. I'm not sure I'd buy it in that purple color.
daan
Just a Jaguar! A Jaguar with Aston badges! Look at the similarities between that vehicle and the Jaguar XK8 which debuted much earlier. Oh what a Jaguar that Jaguar is!
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Yesterday I actually took a few pictures with my phone but never even thought of posting them up. Blame Doug.
Here's My first S6. I just saw the wheels as I was cruising through NCR's parking lot. The guy took all the badges off but the "V10" on the side...
And here's a rare spot that I was super-excited about. It's not very often that I see an Acura Integra Type R in my area. Lots of look-alikes, but this one was real. He had it lowered with some Falken R-compound rubber and that's all.
That's my beast in the background btw. And I just noticed his lack of a front license plate. What a rebel.
Here's My first S6. I just saw the wheels as I was cruising through NCR's parking lot. The guy took all the badges off but the "V10" on the side...
And here's a rare spot that I was super-excited about. It's not very often that I see an Acura Integra Type R in my area. Lots of look-alikes, but this one was real. He had it lowered with some Falken R-compound rubber and that's all.
That's my beast in the background btw. And I just noticed his lack of a front license plate. What a rebel.
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Actually the qualtiy was miserable. It was a cloudy day and my lens was dusty, so the pics were really unsaturated. While fiddling I discovered "unsharp mask" and was wowed by the weirdo effect it did, so I slathered the pictures with it.
I've got a few more that I'll hopefully get up today. I'm at my buddy's workplace trying to get him fired right now.
I've got a few more that I'll hopefully get up today. I'm at my buddy's workplace trying to get him fired right now.
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BAH!! I wish I had known about this thread when I first moved to Gaithersburg, I don't know if I mentioned it before in here, but for the first few weeks I lived there, one of the other folks in the development had an E34 M5, a Dodge Charger done up exactly like the General Lee, an Early Countach and some sort of old Chrysler 300 (not sure what letter but it was from the 50s or 60s). All of which he drove on a regular basis... I could not make up a more motley crew of rare Iron.
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You fricken' Commie. You see, at first, I thought you were referring to the V12 Vanquish, which looks pretty good, so I was about to complain. Then, I saw what I assume was either a new XK or a V8 Vantage or a DB9 (or maybe an accident at the Premier Auto Group plant, where they were merged and no one noticed) in tabs' post, so I stopped. Then, I saw that you were actually referring to the DB7. So, in conclusion, go build a wall in Berlin, Douglas Stalin. You see that? I got all Joe McCarthy on ya'.
Hm? You got the joke backwards. Its supposed to make fun of Jaguar, not Aston. It makes no sense that way, unless you are making fun of people who truly think the Aston came second.M5Power
Oh my god. I have found its brother:keef
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i seen this
has now been decatted with tubi exhuasts and is fecking loud! spits flames too.
has now been decatted with tubi exhuasts and is fecking loud!
spits flames too. How did we get such a group of Aston-Martin lovers here?!Indeed, I was - the first time I ever made the 'DB7 looks like an XK8' allusion, someone immediately came on here and informed me that the DB7 came out first and that the real copycat was the Jaguar.
Yeah, right.
Caught this today - same vehicle as last week (Ohio temporary plates). I love this car - I hope to see it around all summer, and I really hope it gets Colorado plates pretty soon and stays local. Beautiful.
Most A8s are A8Ls (as that one is) - they debuted a year before the short-wheelbase, all 12-cylinder models are Ls, and I believe the Ls outsell the regular model even in 4.2-liter guise.
Personally I hate it because the short-wheelbase is considerably better-looking. And I absolutely despise those showy wheels, which are against everything Audi stands for as far as subtlety is concerned.
Personally I hate it because the short-wheelbase is considerably better-looking. And I absolutely despise those showy wheels, which are against everything Audi stands for as far as subtlety is concerned.
In 2003 all A8s were long-wheelbase, but we got the short-wheelbase model available in 2004. However also in 2004 we got the 6-liter W12, which is available only in long-wheelbase. All S8s are short-wheelbase and yes, all Phaetons were, relative to the A8, long-wheelbase.
Joey
While there's a small chance that A8 is a W12, fully 3.8 percent of long-wheelbase A8s carry the 12-cylinder engine. Long-wheelbase does not a 12-cylinder make. I'm, therefore, 96.2% sure that one is an 8-cylinder model. Sorry!!
👍 Indeed - "all W12s are long-wheelbase, but the vast majority of long-wheelbases are not W12."
In the cases of the latter vehicles it's actually quite easy to tell which version it is from all angles but the direct front, however the A8 poses a bit of a challenge in that respect. Perhaps your suggestion is a good one, but it would require lots more work, and is sometimes not possible, if a car is spotted in the other direction, for instance.
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...A pretty good day today, all cars found in the parking lot on the way to work...
B7 Audi S4 Convertible
Late-model Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Convertible
1967 Chevrolet Impala SS
Mercedes-Benz 560 SL
Ford F-250 Harley Davidson
D2 Audi A8L 4.2
D3 Audi A8L 4.2
...So a pretty decent day for my less than 30 minute total drive time this afternoon/evening...
B7 Audi S4 Convertible
Late-model Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Convertible
1967 Chevrolet Impala SS
Mercedes-Benz 560 SL
Ford F-250 Harley Davidson
D2 Audi A8L 4.2
D3 Audi A8L 4.2
...So a pretty decent day for my less than 30 minute total drive time this afternoon/evening...
