Did You See Anything Good Today? [Read First Post]
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The Cayenne Turbo S came out two months ago, costs $150,000 (82,000 GBP), has 500 horsepower, and is the "super" Cayenne. I assume what you mean by that is you've seen just one Cayenne that's not a Turbo or an S. I agree though - the base model is rarer than ****, because it is ****.
Today's sightings were good. First the mundane:
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 [C6]/Acura NSX - July 18, 2006; Denver, Colo.
Then the similarly mundane but at least expensive:
Aston Martin DB9 convertible - July 17, 2006; Denver, Colo.
And finally, the awesome:
July 18, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I know it's just a Viper and other people are going to come on here and talk about how they see them every day, but the truth of the matter is, they're rarer than hell in this color and they totally shouldn't be. It was the Viper GTS's absolute best color and honestly it was the color that vehicle was made to be produced in. For me, who has never seen a blue and white GTS before this was really something: the guy was coming out of a parking garage and I stopped in the middle of the street and let him proceed so I could take photos. Very, very cool car, and I'm glad I got the opportunity to see it.
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I actually spotted a Blue & White GTS the other day myself. I was pretty excited too, as they are, indeed, shockingly rare. It was the first in that color I'd seen in years.
I saw a Blue and White Viper, same year as that yesterday too, they aren't rare in Memphis, land of Elise's, and Porsches, and Ferrari's and at least one Lamborghini Diablo.
Oddly, I've yet to catch a Z06 on the street, but my GIRLFRIEND, spotted one in a parking lot near here, which I've since checked everytime I drove past.
Oddly, I've yet to catch a Z06 on the street, but my GIRLFRIEND, spotted one in a parking lot near here, which I've since checked everytime I drove past.
I agree - and similar to how I had never seen a blue and white GTS, I've also never seen a three-spoke RT/10.*McLaren*
Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway used to own (and still lends his name to) a huge number of car dealers in the area. The most expensive car at any of the dealers he owned was a Dodge Viper, and he was one of the first in the area to have one. This GTS had dealer plates from about 1998 and given the blue and white stripes I thought it might be Elway's car, but it wasn't him driving.
To my knowledge, he now has a Lamborghini dealer too.
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Blue and white GTSs are not spectacularly rare, though I do agree that they are the best color combo. Rare would be silver with blue stripes - I've never seen one in the metal. Too bad that one wasn't an ACR.
And while I love the GTS, I'm no fan of the original 3-spoke RT/10. Perhaps because it was the car that gave rise to that whole stupid naming convention. But I see them around at least as often as the GTS. I've seen red ones, yellow ones, and black ones. I've also seen one of the second-year-only red-with-yellow-5-spokes Vipers - that's the only one of the first-gen cloth tops that works for me.
And while I love the GTS, I'm no fan of the original 3-spoke RT/10. Perhaps because it was the car that gave rise to that whole stupid naming convention. But I see them around at least as often as the GTS. I've seen red ones, yellow ones, and black ones. I've also seen one of the second-year-only red-with-yellow-5-spokes Vipers - that's the only one of the first-gen cloth tops that works for me.
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Saw something I've hardly ever seen today, a Ferrari 512 Berlinetta Boxer: an outrageous car in its day, but does it stand out today? I've always held it in higher regard than the Testarossa that succeeded it...
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Didn't you say you'd just seen your first new M5? I saw my first one on December 22, 2005, and it was in a parking garage, not at a dealer. Since then I've seen more than I could count. So I think Denver's got you beat - in fact, I think we have more supercars than any other city on the planet not within 100 miles of a large body of water.
*McLaren*
That's not the funny part - this is the rest of the picture:
That's a DB7 V12. And still, not one head (except for the guy in the blue shirt, but I think he's looking at me).
To answer your question, Denver is notorious for being essentially Viper-less. We're packed to the brim with all sorts of supercars, a Veyron included (!), but Vipers are nowhere. We're a very brand-conscious city. I think the question you should be asking is "Are people really that apathetic about cars in your area?" to which the answer would be yes - they buy whatever Mercedes is most expensive. Here's a statistic attesting to the rarity of Vipers in Denver: I've been photographing rare cars for nearly fifteen months now, and I've photographed just one Viper RT/10 in that span.
Speaking of Denver, today was a spectacular day for seeing cars.
The first photo I have is entitled "SUVs so bad that they were only sold to a small number of people in Colorado."
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
Do note that the Suzuki XL-7, which would be the worst SUV in that photo and is the worst SUV of all time, is not there - even SUV-crazy Coloradoans aren't stupid enough (or desperate enough) to buy one of those pieces of crap.
The rest of the afternoon produced two decent sightings:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I've seen two DB9s in three days. Those things are more common than 911 Turbos. But at least they're expensive - our next vehicle is less expensive but deathly uncommon:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I've seen four of these; I see this one a lot (in fact I saw it twice today - this afternoon and this evening). That's not your average CLS500 - it's the (very) rare CLS55.
Evening sightings:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
Special notes: the Audi S8 is one of the few cars that is rare everywhere but Denver - I see them on a daily basis and going on plate numbers I've seen about twelve unique ones in the last month. However they're usually (always) white, black, or silver (silver being the most common by far) - this one was green, which, I don't believe, was a factory color. There's two schools of thought here: one, the owner had it painted or two, it's really an A8. The former is the more likely, because the latter would be more expensive (grille, wheels, badges, front air dam). I've seen very few new XKs. The rarest car in that photo is one of the Americans.
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I love the 911 Turbo Cab - until this summer they were impossible for me to see (last summer I saw one, and it had aftermarket chrome wheels); I've seen quite a few in the last month and a half (quite a few being defined a four).
Sighting of the day goes here:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I was wondering when I'd get a chance to see this guy. Denver was one of ten cities selected to host the new Hertz-Shelby Mustangs, called the Shelby GT-H. The theory here is that the vehicle is the long-overdue replacement to the Hertz-Shelby Mustangs of the late 1960s, which were cars that you'd rent for a day in order to take to the track (I mean officially you'd rent it cause your car "wasn't working" or you were "on vacation" but everyone knew what was going on). Those had manuals, and typically blew through transmissions; the new ones all have automatics to quell that problem but these things will still be driven hard. Ironically the only day the local dragstrip is open to the public is Wednesday night, and instead he was at one of the most expensive restaurants in Denver. Plates indicate that it is indeed a rental. By the way, the truck next to it is a Lincoln Mark LT, also a bit rare, though the restaurant's manager owns that truck and it's there literally daily.
The first photo I have is entitled "SUVs so bad that they were only sold to a small number of people in Colorado."
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
Do note that the Suzuki XL-7, which would be the worst SUV in that photo and is the worst SUV of all time, is not there - even SUV-crazy Coloradoans aren't stupid enough (or desperate enough) to buy one of those pieces of crap.
The rest of the afternoon produced two decent sightings:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I've seen two DB9s in three days. Those things are more common than 911 Turbos. But at least they're expensive - our next vehicle is less expensive but deathly uncommon:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I've seen four of these; I see this one a lot (in fact I saw it twice today - this afternoon and this evening). That's not your average CLS500 - it's the (very) rare CLS55.
Evening sightings:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
Special notes: the Audi S8 is one of the few cars that is rare everywhere but Denver - I see them on a daily basis and going on plate numbers I've seen about twelve unique ones in the last month. However they're usually (always) white, black, or silver (silver being the most common by far) - this one was green, which, I don't believe, was a factory color. There's two schools of thought here: one, the owner had it painted or two, it's really an A8. The former is the more likely, because the latter would be more expensive (grille, wheels, badges, front air dam). I've seen very few new XKs. The rarest car in that photo is one of the Americans.
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I love the 911 Turbo Cab - until this summer they were impossible for me to see (last summer I saw one, and it had aftermarket chrome wheels); I've seen quite a few in the last month and a half (quite a few being defined a four).
Sighting of the day goes here:
July 19, 2006 - Denver, Colo.
I was wondering when I'd get a chance to see this guy. Denver was one of ten cities selected to host the new Hertz-Shelby Mustangs, called the Shelby GT-H. The theory here is that the vehicle is the long-overdue replacement to the Hertz-Shelby Mustangs of the late 1960s, which were cars that you'd rent for a day in order to take to the track (I mean officially you'd rent it cause your car "wasn't working" or you were "on vacation" but everyone knew what was going on). Those had manuals, and typically blew through transmissions; the new ones all have automatics to quell that problem but these things will still be driven hard. Ironically the only day the local dragstrip is open to the public is Wednesday night, and instead he was at one of the most expensive restaurants in Denver. Plates indicate that it is indeed a rental. By the way, the truck next to it is a Lincoln Mark LT, also a bit rare, though the restaurant's manager owns that truck and it's there literally daily.
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'Tis the original GTS.*McLaren*
Nice sighting, but HOW can you call an NSX, Z06 and DB9 mundane?!
My friend says to have seen a Ultima GTR, but I looked and it was an Altima with a Skyline GT-R emblem on it
...those ricers and noobs..BTW, M5Power, you wouldnt happen to have hit someone whilst going on a bike near the city capitol building, did you?
Or dyou know anyone who did?
Cause less than a week ago, I was in Denver and some A-Hole hit me and started cursing at me... probably a crack addict. Not that I think you're a crack addict, or you would do that, just wondering.
BTW nice city, very beautiful.
Sakiale
Well the Z06 you can forgive me for - it's not mundane yet but it's not that expensive and it's gotten a lot of hype (and deservedly so), so it will probably end up being more popular than the original before too long. I see enough NSXs for them to be mundane, though that's a very nice example of a late-model first-gen. And honestly, I never thought I'd be calling the DB9 mundane, but I've seen ten DB9s in the last fourteen months, including four this summer and in fact two in the last three days. Frankly I'm tired of looking at them!! But alas I still photograph them, as they're quite rare in the grand scheme.
If you're ever in Denver again and you want to check out the cars, basically head down to Cherry Creek North (1st to 3rd Avenue between Adams St. and York St.). Thursday and Friday nights are the best but honestly I'll guarantee at least one $90k car no matter when you go (unless it's like 4am though I did see a Ferrari 360 Spider down there once at 4am and today before 8am I had already seen a 911 C4S, C5 Z06, and SL600 down there), and if you go down there twice a day for a week I'll guarantee at least one supercar. My pictures in this thread were basically all taken there - it's funny because some pictures are fourteen months and about two parking spots apart.
No - were you injured? I personally would stay away from downtown, particularly over by the capitol and its nearby parks, during the day. At night, particularly on the weekends, there's a crazy club scene but during the day there'a crazy homeless scene. With lots of weirdos. And, indeed, crack addicts.
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who cares if its slow i can say i own a porsche
(thats the reason there)
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Holdenhsvgtsrwho cares if its slow i can say i own a porsche
(thats the reason there)
Except it's really a VW Tourag with an ugly nose
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tell that to the porsche badge on the front 
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Theres this guy at my school whoes dad has a CLS 55 AMG, slammed on black Lowenhart LSR rims. Sorry, I dont have a picture, but my phone doesnt have a camera and if I use a real camera it'll be pretty obvious that Im trying to take a picture so yeah...
That's really it. I saw another Cayenne base today on the highway and I started thinking about it. Us car people know they're driving a vehicle that would get ass-raped in a race with a Honda Odyssey, but to the average joe, it's a Cayenne, it's a Porsche, and it exudes the exact sort of wealth the driver wants to project.Holdenhsvgtsrwho cares if its slow i can say i own a porsche
(thats the reason there)
Do note that aside from making you look rich, the Cayenne base is Porsche's cheapest model, at $42200 to the Boxster's $45000 (plus Cayman's $58900 and 911's $71300). Though admittedly the automatic transmission alone (which is chosen by probably 99% of buyers) adds enough to make it more expensive than the base Boxster. Then again, it's not like $45000 Boxsters are available, considering that they'd have manual cloth seats, no floormats, and manual single-zone air-con.
