Supercars spotted, some rarities (Vol 5)
Discussion
KFC said:
berlintaxi said:
Ah, its the "look at me I'm superior post", nowt wrong with the Bentley in my opinion and if that makes me a chav, where do I collect my hoodie?
Do you think it looks better or worse than a standard one? Out of curiosity, how old are you? I'm thinking along the lines that nobody over 25 could possibly think it looks better than a normal one, am I right?I'm fully with berlintaxi on this. I too am much closer to 50 than 25, and the only offensive thing here is that somebody thinks they speak on behalf of all of us this side of 35!
Look, it's a Bentley owned by someone who has it just as he/she likes it. Is it worse? No. Is it better? No. Do you peer through windows deciding if a house is devalued because of the wallpaper? Same principle!
Look, it's a Bentley owned by someone who has it just as he/she likes it. Is it worse? No. Is it better? No. Do you peer through windows deciding if a house is devalued because of the wallpaper? Same principle!
yellowjack said:
Blown2CV said:
the bentley is standard
I'm well aware of the fact that the factory will supply it looking like that, but it doesn't make it right. The words 'standard' and 'hideous' are not mutually exclusive. Each to his own, and all that, but this is a forum, and that is my opinion. It is a genuinely self-formed opinion, and not a matter of 'following a crowd' or aping a 'typical' PH mantra. That Bentley is simply wrong. Whether you like it, or, like me, loathe it is of no consequence to me. If I won one in a raffle it'd be stood outside the nearest professional Football Club with "4Sale" signs in the windows before you could blink. Either that or I'd be trading it for something slightly more 'mature and sensible' in style and execution at my nearest Supercar Emporium.storminnorman said:
z4chris99 said:
does it have lifting gear?
The Enzo does, so I would suspect it doesFamously the Gumpert Apollo didn't...
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/27/gumpert-apollo-...
I love reading and learning about something new; a fact, vignette, legend or myth that adds more colour than the fairly monochrome details of how much something costs, or how fast it is to 60mph. Or God forbid, the 'ring time. After a fantastic visit to Wolfsburg - The Place Beyond the Drömling Pines - I've spent as much time as feasible discovering as much as I can around VW's Nardo, W12 Concept. Ever since I'd first heard about it, lying across four seats in a lounge at Dallas/Fort Worth reading April 2002 'Road & Track', what "VW did next" has always fascinated me. Enough to almost make me miss my flight...
The line from this...
to this...
...isn't strictly true nor linear, but I wouldn't be surprised if VW hadn't engineered in practicality like ride height into the Nardo, much like as how many bases were subsequently covered by the Veyron when it was released.
Peering inside the Wolfsburg Nardo, it looked supremely well tailored, with familiar high-end touches for the day. Sometimes you can spend a lot of time in a museum, eyes darting everywhere, promiscuously trying to soak up all the treasure. But often it's nicer to just laser in and study a subset. A touch Aristotelian, but time is finite after all.
- Apologies for the oblique Veyron picture. The art installation looked....Picasso'd.
It's funny how fashions come and go. Speaking to my mate who lived through the eighties, sexy was four brunettes, dressed in black, writhing glumly as Robert Palmer sang 'Addicted to Love'. Nowadays, you need a minimum of ten Kim Kardashian-types bogling in bikinis in yet another MTV pool parrrteeyyyyyy!
Wings, spoilers, diffusers, LEDs, 20" alloys...it's all so overt these days. Oh well.
I can definitely see where people like Rob Dickinson (Singer) and Magnus Walker will always maintain a healthy trade and fan following for older 911s. Less can be more.
E36 AMG. The coupe is rare enough - only 24 in the UK at last recount - but in convertible format...
Considering that around 190-odd E36s were made in total - coupe, cab, saloon and estate - and only 54 of these in left-hand drive, then it's great to see one in such fine condition. The front tells a story - it looks like a W126 SEC grille that's been transplanted. Bad boy cars like this are lost on the old and infirm: they solely belong on an EPMD album cover, or cruising along Rockaway Boulevard, bass pumping.
berlintaxi said:
Neither looks better or worse than a standard one, I personally don't find anything offensive about it, and I am well on the wrong side of 25.
I'm just over the wrong side of 25 and I am indifferent about it. Then again I have always seen the Conti GT as a vulgar/crass car. It might be a brilliant car to drive but the looks don't do it for me.z4chris99 said:
at the clay ground today. my Z4 scrapes on the bumps so no idea how this got in
Holy smokes. I doff my cap to the owner. The MC12 is high up on the list of cars I still want to see in the flesh. I know it's cheating somewhat but I finally ticked off the Zonda from the list over the weekend. Went to Bob Forstners on Saturday to try and see the F Roadster they have for sale but they were closed so after looking at it from the window I went down to H R Owen where I got lucky and got to drool over this -
The attention to detail is insane, as is the quality of the carbon including the luggage boxes. That is a pure lotto win car right there. Loved the other exotica they had in too including the two rareties in the background.
Tigerkoi - brilliant posts as always but I have to agree with the other folks regarding the flatnose. It's not for me.
giblet said:
Holy smokes. I doff my cap to the owner. The MC12 is high up on the list of cars I still want to see in the flesh. I know it's cheating somewhat but I finally ticked off the Zonda from the list over the weekend. Went to Bob Forstners on Saturday to try and see the F Roadster they have for sale but they were closed so after looking at it from the window I went down to H R Owen where I got lucky and got to drool over this -
The attention to detail is insane, as is the quality of the carbon including the luggage boxes. That is a pure lotto win car right there. Loved the other exotica they had in too including the two rareties in the background.
Tigerkoi - brilliant posts as always but I have to agree with the other folks regarding the flatnose. It's not for me.
Sod that, the Mosler and XJ220 in the background The attention to detail is insane, as is the quality of the carbon including the luggage boxes. That is a pure lotto win car right there. Loved the other exotica they had in too including the two rareties in the background.
Tigerkoi - brilliant posts as always but I have to agree with the other folks regarding the flatnose. It's not for me.
Blown, El Capitano & Giblet - hear you on the flatnose! It is certainly aesthetically...'challenging'. I could have worded it better to highlight that my general appreciation was solely for the silver 911 
Munch - let's get the picture up and have a look: never know what we might find. The visual pointers that always draw me in are the slightly rectangular twin exhausts, the monoblock wheels and the glove-like spoiler. "Show us what ya got!"
Munch - let's get the picture up and have a look: never know what we might find
. The visual pointers that always draw me in are the slightly rectangular twin exhausts, the monoblock wheels and the glove-like spoiler. "Show us what ya got!"
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