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Post by Wyvern on Aug 13, 2008 21:59:59 GMT
Woohoo! Great spotting GG, must have been a bit of a surprise ;D
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Post by griasgirl on Aug 13, 2008 22:03:18 GMT
A complete pleasure and I have to say that it attracted a lot of attention!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2008 22:34:32 GMT
HOW AMAZING!! Cor you must have been chuffed GG what a sighting!
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Post by wildcathammondette on Aug 14, 2008 7:21:22 GMT
I'm sat by a MAJOR road in Brussels and if I look out the window I see hundreds of cars passing by but it's funny just how many Mini Coopers can be seen nowadays!
I also saw a red Fiat 500 (new model of old model lol) last week
And there is a Merc Kompressor parked in front of our building quite often, not an ugly car at all but Kompressor isn't really the most nice name!
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Post by maureen on Aug 14, 2008 16:11:11 GMT
I saw a Boxter in one of the car parks near work. It had a cloth convertible roof and I really liked it alot. At the traffic light entering downtown Thetford, it wasn't the car that caught my attention as much as the driver. Normally, I'm too busy driving to notice other drivers, but this guy looked just like my husband. I had to do a double-take, even though he was in a different car than the Laguna we own. Very uncanny.
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Post by Mayfayre on Aug 14, 2008 17:56:39 GMT
There are soooooo many Porsches around here it's more of an event not to see one when I go out! There were a couple of Bentley Continentals about yesterday, an Aston Martin a couple of days before that & an orange Lambo that appears every now & then.
There's also a thing with a spider painted on the back that parks at the end of my road. It has no badges & I'm still trying to figure out what it is!
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 14, 2008 18:53:15 GMT
I remember the car with the spider on the back! Took me a while to figure it out and now I've forgotten what it was...  The car spotting is particularly good around your way, though I'm not sure about that dodgy "Merc" truck that was really a Tata in disguise! |
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 14, 2008 18:55:17 GMT
Black Porsche Boxster S. I have seen it a few times because it stand a few streets from my house
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 14, 2008 20:48:40 GMT
I can hardly believe that I'm writing this so soon after GG, but I saw an XK (possibly an XK8) on the way home from work today. What the hell is going on in my area? Where are all these cars coming from - and where are they going? Can they take me with them?
Now, the one I saw today was not a nice new one, it was a very early one by the looks of things, and again it had dubious gold paint. But it was lovely, nonetheless.
I don't get it though, I've lived in Plymouth, on and off, since I was 19, and always in this general area. And I've seen more car porn in the last few weeks than the previous few years.
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 15, 2008 16:51:16 GMT
I saw an excellent oldie car today - a VW Beetle Split.
Using my truly nerdy VW book, I believe I have ID'd it as one produced between 1949 and 1952.
I was rather chuffed - I quite like Beetles, despite them bing Hitler's little henchmen (or however that particular quote goes!)
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 15, 2008 16:56:09 GMT
I went on a bike ride throw the posh side of haarlem and it looks like a lot of people like porsche. I saw today
4 x Porsche boxster S
3 x Porsche Turbos S
2 x Porsche Cayenne
and guess what .... all in black and no it wasn't the same car I saw
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 15, 2008 22:06:56 GMT
Wow... the day is rapidly approaching when Porsches become commonplace! My interesting car spotting experiences continue. As I was heading to work today I saw a Mazda RX-8, which is unusual as it has a wankel engine. And then - at the same set of traffic lights where I saw the XK yesterday and the Elise the day before, I saw a pretty Morgan roadster of some description! It was silver and spotless and gorgeous. I was so gobsmacked that I've had such a run of nice cars in the last few days that I immediately texted XJ, who concluded that I'm being stalked by luxury cars  |
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 15, 2008 22:22:36 GMT
I see a Maserati Grand Turismo the other day. It was in black.
twas yummy ;D
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Post by adco on Aug 15, 2008 22:24:53 GMT
Wy, my son says for you to expect a Veyron tomorrow. |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 15, 2008 22:30:18 GMT
Tell your son if that happens, you'll hear the *thud* of shock on your side of the pond!!!
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Post by adco on Aug 15, 2008 22:45:58 GMT
;D If we saw one I think I would faint or something. I read that there are 150 in America, but none of them live here or anywhere I go.  |
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Post by stigalicious on Aug 15, 2008 22:47:18 GMT
Yep, porches are defo common now. I just saw one in my home town. the day you see a porche in Bingers, its time to buy something else!!!!
Awwww Id love to sit in a veyron, or even just touch a veyron...
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Post by (Ali) on Aug 15, 2008 22:51:42 GMT
I saw a Noble M15 a few weeks back - had never seen one in the States before. Made the traffic jam/bad thunderstorm I was driving in a lot more bearable.
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Post by adco on Aug 15, 2008 22:54:13 GMT
That's cool rwhip! There are lots of Porsches here where I live. Lots of BMWs and Mercedes too, but not much true exotica.
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Post by stigalicious on Aug 15, 2008 22:59:51 GMT
I always liked Noble cars. Just thought I'd tell you that.... :S
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 16, 2008 8:25:33 GMT
Yep, porches are defo common now. I just saw one in my home town. the day you see a porche in Bingers, its time to buy something else!!!! Awwww Id love to sit in a veyron, or even just touch a veyron... maybe at the MPH this year stig. keep your fingers crossed. ;D |
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Post by Mayfayre on Aug 17, 2008 16:22:15 GMT
Just back from a long walk in the forest and I saw:
Various Porsches, manily Boxsters/Carreras but also a 1972/3 911 in orange. At first glance I mistook it for a Citroen DS!
A yellow Merc SLK with the registration R ** SLK
An ancient, yet pristine, LHD, split screen Ford pick-up truck
A cross-eyed Morngan with the top down
Assorted motorbikes, mainly modern and/or Harley-style chop type things
Several 1950s / 60s British bikes (AJS, BSA, Triumph, Norton, Vincent)
A pre-war mororbike that clattered past at speed as I was walking down the road
A beautiful Honda CB250RS in blue with a bikini fairing that made me all nostalgic. I had a couple of red ones and a black one but I always wanted one of the pretty blue ones!
Finally worked out that the car at the end of the road with a spider on the back is a Ford Probe!
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 17, 2008 16:58:13 GMT
Seen quite a few nice looking cars today  A Chysler Crossfire roadster A Bentley Continental GT A Jaguar XK Coupe and another Alfa Romeo C8 to top of my perfect day of Car spotting, I seen an old Fiat Multipla... o.O |
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 17, 2008 17:28:39 GMT
Seen quite a few nice looking cars today A Chysler Crossfire roadster A Bentley Continental GT A Jaguar XK Coupe and another Alfa Romeo C8 to top of my perfect day of Car spotting, I seen an old Fiat Multipla... o.O Fiat Multipla? Is that not the worst car you have ever seen? I hope I'm but that is the car with the most horrible front I have ever seen |
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 17, 2008 18:15:55 GMT
That Fiat Multipla scares me! I was havin a good pretty car spotting day when that thing crept up behind me! |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 17, 2008 20:49:27 GMT
I actually like the Fiat Multipla. It is so incredibly hideous - it looks like a frog that swallowed a shoebox - that it is almost beautiful ;D Good old Fiat - they've made some real dogs over the years, but they're rarely boring!
Anyway.
Today is Sunday. Today I started work at lunch time. And today I was not on the crossing during the rush hour, when all the well-off out-of-towners are driving in or out of the city, so I wasn't going to see anything interesting, was I?
So why did I see a silver Porsche Carrera, followed two cars later by a Lotus Elise?
And no, these weren't the same ones I saw earlier in the week. The Carrera I saw the other day was a rag top, whereas today's was a fixed head. And the Elise the other day was gold while this one was black.
I'm definitely being stalked by luxury cars!
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 17, 2008 21:20:26 GMT
Fiat Multipla? Is that not the worst car you have ever seen? I hope I'm but that is the car with the most horrible front I have ever seen Heheh, go here. www.uglycars.co.uk/They agree with you! I love that site - I found it years ago, and it still makes me LOL |
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Post by maureen on Aug 18, 2008 17:17:56 GMT
On a more positive note, I saw an old burgandy Jag like the one James drove on the French WA and two Boxters on the A11 going in the opposite direction from me. I also saw a Porche 911 on the roundabout that leads to my neighbourhood. Cool.
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 18, 2008 17:31:03 GMT
Fiat Multipla? Is that not the worst car you have ever seen? I hope I'm but that is the car with the most horrible front I have ever seen Heheh, go here. www.uglycars.co.uk/They agree with you! I love that site - I found it years ago, and it still makes me LOL thanks for the link. I have seen that Fiat in Amsterdam and I almost throw up when I saw it.  ;D |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 19, 2008 1:26:28 GMT
I saw a Multipla today. There is no getting away from the fact that it is a staggeringly ugly car, but at the same time, it is instantly recognisable. And I still like it, for some reason |
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The car spotting is particularly good around your way, though I'm not sure about that dodgy "Merc" truck that was really a Tata in disguise!
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