Midlands Exciting Cars Spotted

[51ACKy]

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

[bertie]

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

Blimey, an MG SVR....

Had some involvement with these back in the day, known by the MG Rover engineers who worked on it as Scrapheap challenge.

[TVRJAS]

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

I was only looking at one of these on Sunday.

I was at the PH Sunday service at Jaguar and they have one in the Heritage museum,never knew they existed and never thought one would be spotted on the road...

Great spot

[gmw9666]

TVRJAS said:

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

I was only looking at one of these on Sunday.

I was at the PH Sunday service at Jaguar and they have one in the Heritage museum,never knew they existed and never thought one would be spotted on the road...

Great spot

When my TVR was on the Rolling Road up at Shropshire Automotive Services they had one in the back of the garage.....will see if I can dig out the photo I took.......that was black as well......cant be 2 on the road round here lol

[Gompo]

R8 GT on the A38 at Derby, yesterday. Sounded good, first GT I've seen/noticed.

[Shaw Tarse]

gmw9666 said:

When my TVR was on the Rolling Road up at Shropshire Automotive Services they had one in the back of the garage.....will see if I can dig out the photo I took.......that was black as well......cant be 2 on the road round here lol

I'm sure I saw the one in the pic sometime ago & think it's green?

[RESSE]

A white Ferrari 458 heading into Halesfield from Shifnal direction this morning.

Sounded great

[S2Mike]

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

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I was contacted by a local company ( To Me ) with a view to providing some trim components to start assembling a very low number of these beauties. Not heard anything since providing some samples, but we can but hope, I believe they had bought all the spares they could lay their hands on and were looking at a £50,000 price tag.
Sorry can't provide anymore info as they are keeping a low profile until they have a prototype.

[HerrSchnell]

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

That's John Newey's car, he keeps it at his MG dealership which is still keeping the faith over there in Dudley.

He'll gladly show the car to you if you ask nicely.

http://summitgarage.co.uk/

Edited by HerrSchnell on Friday 7th November 22:07

[51ACKy]

HerrSchnell said:

51ACKy said:

Genuinely made me smile today - thank you whoever you are!!

That's John Newey's car, he keeps it at his MG dealership which is still keeping the faith over there in Dudley.

He'll gladly show the car to you if you ask nicely.

http://summitgarage.co.uk/

Edited by HerrSchnell on Friday 7th November 22:07

Makes sense given the location and direction of travel! Thanks for the info :-)

[dudleybloke]

Theres a grey SV that comes through Dudley now and again too.

[v15ben]

From my impromptu visit to Donington last weekend.

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[TorqueR]

I saw the newly released BMW 2AT today in Clay Cross this afternoon. It may not sound like a significant spot but it is the first FWD vehicle that BMW have produced.

Edited by TorqueR on Wednesday 12th November 21:30

[rigga]

TorqueR said:

I saw the newly released BMW 2AT today in Clay Cross this afternoon. It may not sound like a significant spot but it is the first FWD vehicle that BMW have produced.

Edited by TorqueR on Wednesday 12th November 21:30

Discounting the minis they produce then.

[Sharky86]

Spotted a Silver C43 AMG on the way to work today on the outskirts of Leicester; it was nice to see a non-current and rare AMG! Sadly not close enough to hear it and driving so no chance of a photo.

[bertie]

rigga said:

Discounting the minis they produce then.

They don't though, Mini make them in Oxford, not BMW.

Yes same parent ownership, but different companies.

If you took that view Skoda make 4wd V12 carbon supercars and Tetley tea make the F type.

[rigga]

And yet the latest f56 varient is based on the one series platform, regardless of the place or company name thy ain't based on the original design, and are BMW's.

[Zyp]

Stupid argument.

How about 'the first fwd BMW badged car'?

[TorqueR]

Seriously?!

I thought it went without saying, obviously not. The MINI brand is a separate entity away from BMW. The Audi A1 and the Seat Ibiza have the same basic architecture underneath, likewise the Rolls Royce Ghost with the BMW 7'er. Would you tell me those examples are from the same brand?

[bertie]

rigga said:

And yet the latest f56 varient is based on the one series platform, regardless of the place or company name thy ain't based on the original design, and are BMW's.

The new F56 Mini is the first car off the new UKL1 platform, but that means virtualy nothing to anyone, but I'll agree it's not the original 1950s Mini, in the same way the current 911 shares nothing with the 356, things have moved on somewhat.