ECR - Exclusive Car Registry

[Simpo Two]

Stumbled on this...

https://exclusivecarregistry.com/list?model=aston+...

And that's just the Aston page. Have a poke around - ECR seems like PH for Rich People!

[AMV8Stuart]

Made me feel like a pauper 'only' having a normal Vanquish! Looks like unless you have a special edition you're not getting in

[Simpo Two]

Indeed. And I was surprised how many 'limited edition' supercars they built, despite effectively having no money:
Victor, Valkyrie, One-77, Vulcan, DBR22, Valiant, Valhalla, Valour... did they make any profit on them after development costs?

[bogie]

Certainly a good selection of specs/colours, never seen so many Valkyries......now they appear common compared to V12S Vantage Roadsters

[LTP]

Perhaps I'm a bit thick, but I'm not quite sure what this webpage is all about. It appears you can join, then just upload photos of cars, which you variously tag so the search function can find them. Doesn't mean you own them, or have even driven them. It's a bit like DeviantArt, but automotive-based. Unless I'm missing something.

Edited to add - With AI image capability I question whether some of the cars might not actually be real

And, of course, the posts can be "liked". Who doesn't like to be liked? .

One day, will humanity look back on social media and wonder "What on earth were we thinking?"?

Edited by LTP on Wednesday 29th July 14:02

[Simpo Two]

LTP said:

One day, will humanity look back on social media and wonder "What on earth were we thinking?"?

Future archaeologists will be very disappointed with the 21st century - just a stratum of crushed 'devices'. No other record of the people who spent so much of their lives poking them.

[andymadmak]

LTP said:

Perhaps I'm a bit thick, but I'm not quite sure what this webpage is all about. It appears you can join, then just upload photos of cars, which you variously tag so the search function can find them. Doesn't mean you own them, or have even driven them. It's a bit like DeviantArt, but automotive-based. Unless I'm missing something.

Indeed... there is a picture of one of our cars on there and I have never heard of the site before. The pic seems to have been taken by someone at a show we were attending.. Most bizarre

Correction, make that two of our cars! The one of my Aston seems to have ben taken in traffic!

Edited by andymadmak on Wednesday 29th July 16:49

[bogie]

Some of the pics on that site dont even look real, i do wonder if the whole site is AI generated ? a collection of fancy car pics ?

[DeejRC]

I’m hoping they got one of the MGs Andy, the Maestro maybe…

[LTP]

bogie said:

Some of the pics on that site dont even look real, i do wonder if the whole site is AI generated ? a collection of fancy car pics ?

Some of the pictures are still proudly carrying their “Copyright” watermarks - from other websites.

[andymadmak]

DeejRC said:

I m hoping they got one of the MGs Andy, the Maestro maybe

Aha! No, it was the Lynx and the Aston

[andymadmak]

DeejRC said:

I m hoping they got one of the MGs Andy, the Maestro maybe

Aha! No, it was the Lynx and the Aston

[DeejRC]

Well if they have papped my F12, ha! the jokes on them - I’ve sold it! That’ll teach em…

[M1AGM]

LTP said:

bogie said:

Some of the pics on that site dont even look real, i do wonder if the whole site is AI generated ? a collection of fancy car pics ?

Some of the pictures are still proudly carrying their Copyright watermarks - from other websites.

Yes. Lots of dealer pics. Obvious ones like Mee. I think its just a site someone has written to scrape car pics from the internet using a bot.

[shtu]

M1AGM said:

I think its just a site someone has written to scrape car pics from the internet using a bot.

Looks very much like it.

Most of the pictures I scrolled through looked like dealership advert photos.

[alscar]

One of my cars is on there but with a photo that I think I put on here first.
I certainly didn’t register and interestingly there is nothing on the about link on their website.