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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 13:04:11 GMT
What have you seen out and about on the roads that has interested interested you?
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Post by johnc on Mar 22, 2017 8:23:52 GMT
I saw my first new E Class Coupe today as it sat in queuing traffic outside the office on the 30mph dual carriageway. It's quite a handsome car and its darkened windows hid Racing's pet hate of the small quarterlight at the rear. What struck me was that the side profile looked remarkably like the A5 Sportsback but without the rear doors - it certainly looks long enough to take an extra couple of doors: it was one car ahead of an XF and it looked every bit as big. It is not a small coupe!
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Post by Tim on Mar 22, 2017 14:08:49 GMT
I saw a bright yellow Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS this morning.
It needs a bigger bootlid for the badge and the colour was extremely awful.
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Post by michael on Mar 23, 2017 15:42:29 GMT
I saw a Saab 9-3 wagon in what appeared to be streetwise/allroad/cross country trim. I didn't know they even did those!
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Post by Tim on Mar 23, 2017 16:30:50 GMT
I saw a Saab 9-3 wagon in what appeared to be streetwise/allroad/cross country trim. I didn't know they even did those! I've seen a handful over the years but it doesn't appear that they were very popular.
I saw a Hyundai Ionic last night (in daylight). I thought it was a Prius initially. Have the aerodynamicists settled on that being the ideal shape?
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Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 23, 2017 23:21:46 GMT
I think some manufacturers think a hybrid/PHEV/fuel cell vehicle has to look wilfully "futuristic". But in a "it looked great as a motor show concept but this is the closest we could manage" way. The Pious being probably the worst example.
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Post by humphreythepug on Mar 24, 2017 11:31:57 GMT
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 24, 2017 13:17:19 GMT
Is the wheel clamp to prevent theft or is it parked where it shouldn't be?
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Post by Tim on Mar 24, 2017 13:25:02 GMT
Maybe its got a rubbish handbrake?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 18:18:09 GMT
There is an i8 just round the corner from me but it has been parked since I moved here in October and appears to never move.
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 25, 2017 18:20:31 GMT
 images of high qualityOne of these heading North on the A9 this afternoon. We were heading home, but it was in sight long enough to see it was in relatively good external condition, and was wafting along at a fair old lick too! |
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Post by franki68 on Mar 26, 2017 12:18:34 GMT
 A velar parked up in chipping Camden , very nice but 60k for a 4 cylinder diesel ? |
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Post by humphreythepug on Mar 27, 2017 6:24:49 GMT
458 Aperta Spider in yellow yesterday and the bright green Aventador SV which I have posted before, however until yesterday I hadn't realised that it was a Roadster; sunny day and roof off.
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 27, 2017 7:22:02 GMT
In Guildford on Saturday - an open-top McLaren. Sounded great but due to the traffic gridlock, it was slower than me down the Woking Road (over about half a mile), and I was walking! It did sound glorious though
... oh, and one of those new MG SUV things too, from the back..... didn't look too unusual from that view
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Post by michael on Mar 27, 2017 8:52:20 GMT
I've now seen a new Honda Civic. I wish I hadn't, what were they thinking?
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Post by Tim on Mar 27, 2017 13:20:54 GMT
I saw a Pug 208GTI in that red/black colour scheme.
Awful, it would work better if they were both the same 'texture'.
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Post by franki68 on Mar 27, 2017 15:12:54 GMT
An Ariel atom out having fun, unfortunately I was in the allroad so couldn't 'play' not that the gt4 would keep up ,but it would have been fun.
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Post by Stuntman on Mar 27, 2017 19:46:32 GMT
Yesterday in London - a yellow 458 Italia and then a yellow 458 Speciale with white and grey stripes down the front; a blue Huracan and a very nice-looking metallic light grey Huracan Spider.
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Post by LandieMark on Mar 28, 2017 13:54:59 GMT
Just in a car park and a grotty Clio parks up. I notice the clearly homemade roof rack bolted through the sheet metal with nuts and bolts rather than use the proper clamp on one at the strengthened rails. Hope he doesn't carry anything heavy!  |
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Post by michael on Mar 28, 2017 15:09:38 GMT
Just seen a Fiat Doblo XL which has to count as one of the weirdest things on the road.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 17:22:20 GMT
I keep seeing the facelifted Leon Cupra I mentioned in the other place. It is a 17 reg (now I've looked) and is usually being driven in a twattish manner. Sounds alright for a four pot, though...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 17:28:24 GMT
Leon Cupra ...usually being driven in a twattish manner. What a fucking surprise...  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 22:53:55 GMT
Must be the car, as I drove mine like a twat, too. Obviously. I think mine was a subconscious effort to kill the thing because I hated it? I only did it on the open road, though, not down busy residential streets like this clown. Anyway, pot, kettle, black an' all that, I'd better shut up now!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 7:01:19 GMT
A white Matra-Simca Rancho. Beat the white SUV brigade by several decades...
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 30, 2017 18:27:20 GMT
An oldish X5 earlier this afternoon which had been de- or un-badged at some point but, instead, now has 4X4 on the left of the tailgate and 'sport' on the right. Both from Halfords I think! Lovely.  |
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Post by rodge on Apr 1, 2017 5:32:12 GMT
I've been in Silicon Valley for the last few days and saw about 100 Teslas. They are everywhere there, and they were every model too.
Also saw a BMW I8, a Mercedes G63 AMG and every kind of Porsche.
Rarest sight was probably the Lotus Exige I parked beside the other night.
We had a lovely Neesahn Sentra as a rental. Actually not too bad as a white good, but certainly not something I'd consider owning.
Also, it is always the Prius...
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Post by Martin on Apr 1, 2017 7:26:42 GMT
An immaculate Sierra Cosworth 4x4 on the M40 yesterday, which looked completely original apart from an awful 4x4 badge on the boot lid which was much bigger than the other badges. Why?!
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Post by Stuntman on Apr 1, 2017 21:12:12 GMT
A Guards Red 996 GT3 out on the open road and a black Huracan Spyder being driven fairly considerately through Cheltenham town centre.
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Post by humphreythepug on Apr 1, 2017 23:23:26 GMT
One of those Landrover Defender Bowler things, earlier today.
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Post by Alex on Apr 2, 2017 16:24:19 GMT
We had a parade of Italian supercars pass through our village earlier. This included an F40, a red Diablo an Alfa 8C and McLaren 650S among the usual suspects (F430s, Gallardos etc). I was driving down to the hardware store at the time so didn't get to stop for pictures,
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