Did You See Anything Good Today? [Read First Post]

[Serge.D]

Did you follow the guy from the gas station?

In the second picture you can see the shop where I took
the third picture.
The gas station and the shop are side by side,so I walked only a good 20 meters.

 

[Danny]

Jaugar XK.

Incidentally, so is the red car on the right.

And yet I still yearn for the last-gen XK...

Now if Jag were to make a special edition XK with all the first-gen XK parts... I'd be genuinely tempted to make it a future acquisition.

 

[Beerz]

Yesterday:

The whole interior was lined in leather, sort of camel but more towards the orange colour. Looked great.
Could've gotten better shots, if I wasn't driving while holding the camera...

 

[Joey D]

Decent bunch of cars today:

BMW 135i, first spot of one of these for me.

Chevy Lumina otherwise known as the Pontiac G8 in the states.

1971 Mercedes-Benz SL350. Tags read 71MBENZ.

Land Rover something or other, looked different from anything I've seen. Can the back be removed?

MINI Clubman S! First spot for me of one in the wild, granted I've already driven one but still haven't caught one while out car spotting. Pretty cool that it was Sparkling Silver as well!

Ferrari F430 in a normal parking lot (non-valet), and yes he can't park correctly .

E39 BMW M5, fairly rare. Tags read LGHTSPD.

And I don't know how good this is, more of really rare and I can't believe someone actually bought one. An RX400h...yes a hybrid.

 

[Venari]

Deleted because of a temporal anomaly.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Decent bunch of cars today:


Chevy Lumina otherwise known as the Pontiac G8 in the states.

Ferrari F430 in a normal parking lot (non-valet), and yes he can't park correctly .

They turned the Lumina into that beautiful thing?! They never would have discontinued it here if it looked like that

The RRRRE owner parked perfectly! No door dings. But if someone gets stupid he loses his whole front fascia...

 

[Venari]

Land Rover something or other, looked different from anything I've seen. Can the back be removed?

Freelander Sport. Yes, the back comes off.

Perhaps not just while driving, though.

 

[Danny]

If it's a first or second gen Freelander, there's a good chance the back wasn't designed to come off. It just happened.

 

[Dougboy]

Duno about michigan but quite a lot of people have bought the rx400h here. Ive even seen quite a few LS600H


As for what i saw today.....

theres a spyder somewhere in that pic

S6

360 - yes, i know i need to clean my windows

Cayenne S - Only reason im posting this is because its red. I cant think of the last time i saw a red cayenne

 

[mustangGT90210]

Freelander Sport. Yes, the back comes off.

Perhaps not just while driving, though.

Well, judging by that thar picture I hereby decree that topper definately comes off. [/smalltown southern mayor]

EDIT: Woah now, how did it fly off with those roll bars that would have been going over and through it??

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Is that a Camry in front?

 

[Joey D]

Freelander Sport. Yes, the back comes off.

Perhaps not just while driving, though.

Cool thank you 👍!

Anyways here is a 355 Spyder Kate saw the other day and wanted me to post it. Pretty good spot.

 

[Prosthetic]

Is that a Camry in front?

DUDE.. Screw the Camry there is a frickin Corolla sporting steelies and hubs... Damn...

 

[mustangGT90210]

DUDE.. Screw the Camry there is a frickin Corolla sporting steelies and hubs... Damn...

Butabutbutbut! The damn Ferrari is blocking a Kia!

 

[Prosthetic]

Butabutbutbut! The damn Ferrari is blocking a Kia!

Notice that the hubs on the Corolla are different. Now THAT is style

 

[mustangGT90210]

Notice that the hubs on the Corolla are different. Now THAT is style

He couldn't pick between base econo car or total badass econo car. So he didn't

 

[McLaren]

Are they registered as a car or motorcycle? In Michigan if it was registered as a car it would be illegal to drive one with a helmet. Although I agree with you though, it would be far safer to have a helmet, not only for event of a crash but for flying road debris as well.

Motorcycle as the description lists it as a 3-wheel, 2 seater motorcycle.

I think he did

*mclaren*, yes those places were in england.

Ah. I got word back from my friend, and due to the current exchange rates, he didn't get it. Instead, he's going for a full carbon fibre Roadster from Asia.

Today, though, finally saw a XF drive by, and it looks very nice. Also 2 other pretty nice cars. These 2 were at dealers, but I think there's a bit of an exception. The first was a Viper SRT-10 sitting in the used car lot at Dodge, but was the dealer owner's. The 2nd was a Maserati GranSport conv. However, this car was in its own little see-through room at...Subaru of Plano, for sale. I know you guys say you go to dealers expecting nice cars, but who goes to a Subaru dealer expecting a Maserati to be inside for sale.

 

[Tornado]

Chevy Lumina otherwise known as the Pontiac G8 in the states.

Really? The Lumina? Awesome. They should sell it as that here rather than a Pontiac.

And I don't know how good this is, more of really rare and I can't believe someone actually bought one. An RX400h...yes a hybrid.

My uncle owns one of those.

 

[Joey D]

Really? The Lumina? Awesome. They should sell it as that here rather than a Pontiac.

I guess that is what it's marketed as in the Middle East, there were rumours that it would be the new Impala here but I guess that never came to be.

 

[Tornado]

But Lumina? Wow. They missed the boat.
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[Rue]

Ah. I got word back from my friend, and due to the current exchange rates, he didn't get it. Instead, he's going for a full carbon fibre Roadster from Asia.

Not one of the ones from SPS here in Hong Kong per-chance?

 

[McLaren]

Not one of the ones from SPS here in Hong Kong per-chance?

Maybe....

I'll ask, though, to be sure.

 

[Sage]

Sorry about the framing of a lot of these…

Old Porsche somethingthereother? (I suck at old cars.)

Old Chevy?

VW GTI Farenheit (I’ve seen this exact car at this exact intersection twice – once last weekend, and once a year ago).

There are gazillions of Flying Spurs here. Gazillions.

DB7 convertible with, I guess, an aftermarket Zagato-look-alike grille. Actually, it’s a fairly rare Aston Martin DB AR1 (thanks, Venari!).

Mustang thingie.

Ferrari 348. Sorry about the horrific framing, but I was at a stoplight, and this was the only picture I could get.

BMW X6. Jeebus almighty, this thing’s huge!

Enormous ass.

Cadillac something.

BMW M coupe.

Maserati Gran Turismo.

I also saw a Bentley GT convertible, an enormous number of Porsches (I don’t care about Porsches at all, so I just don’t bother with pictures – I think I even saw a 911 Turbo), a Bentley Arnage, a Saturn Sky, two older Ferraris, a bunch of Maserati Quattroportes (way too common here), some car from like the 1920s, etc.

 

[Dac_Xint]

Yesterday a friend and I went airsofting in Peterborough, and on the way there and back we saw a quite a few interesting cars. As I was the one driving, and my friend had to do the shooting with my DSLR for the first time, not all cars were captured. I've sort through all the photos, picked out the highlights, and edited them a little. Hope you'll enjoy them:

On the way there, at a Tesco supermarket parking lot:

Vauxhall Corsa VXR

On the way back:

Vauxhall Astra VXR

We also saw a Vauxhall VXR8, but we couldn't shoot it in time, otherwise we'd have all the 3 VXRs in 1 day!

TVR Tuscan Speed-6

Porsche 997 911 Carrera 2S

Aston Martin DB9

Maserati Coupe Cambiocorsa

Bentley Continental GT

Audi S5 V8 QUATTRO

Maserati Gran Turismo

And now, some older cars:

There was probably a retro car gathering of some sort, we must have driven pass a half dozen Volkswagen Type 2s. Here's what we got:

Volkswagen Type 2 01

Volkswagen Type 2 02

Volkswagen Type 2 03

Volkswagen Type 2 04

And some other older cars:

1974 Jensen Interceptor Convertible

1930 Aston Martin International

Austin A35 Van (Thanks to Danachronism)

Unknown 02, anyone?

Thanks for viewing, all comments welcome!

 

[Danny]

Your "VXR8" is an Astra VXR, and Unknown 01 is an Austin A35 van.

 

[Dac_Xint]

Sorry for the mistake & thanks for pointing it out, I meant Astra VXR but typed VXR8 for god knowns what reason, correcting it now

 

[ExigeEvan]

I'm surprised you get so many VW van's in coventry. I mainly see that sort of concentration and variety down the west coasts of Wales and England.

 

[under18carbon]

Sorry about the framing of a lot of these…

Old Porsche somethingthereother? (I suck at old cars.)

Porsche 356. Correct me if I'm wrong!

 

[Venari]

DB7 convertible with, I guess, an aftermarket Zagato-look-alike grille.

Wash your mouth out! What you have there is one of the 99 Aston Martin DB AR1s. The 'American Roadster'. It's not even a convertible - there is no roof. If you would have got closer you could have inspected the best paint finish in the world. In general, all cars have paint defects - ranging from swathes of orange peel on you average german luxury car (Mercedes, Porsche) through to the odd speck and pin defects which you have to look hard for on cars with highly worked finishes (Rolls Royce, Aston DB7.) If you see one of these with off-white paint and dual green stripes across the top, you'll be looking at one of the three cars ever to have left Bloxham that was inspected and found to have zero paint defects - flawless. I don't know what the third car was, but one was a BRG DB7 Vantage GT. At that time, there was no-one better than Aston Martin at paint finish.

DB9s and new Vantage, unfortunately, do not have the same level of detailing applied because of time and space constraints within the Gaydon facility. However, as a company, they are considered second only to Rolls-Royce in ex-works paint finish.

Porsche 356. Correct me if I'm wrong!

I'd have gone for 'Speedster' at first glance, although it is a 356 Cabrio... but there are good replicas about.

 

[Dac_Xint]

I'm surprised you get so many VW van's in Coventry. I mainly see that sort of concentration and variety down the west coasts of Wales and England.

Ar, I saw these VW vans on the motorway near Peterborough, as I said in the post, there must've been a gathering of retro cars or something around that area.