Yorkshire Spotted Thread

[vaud]

Unless it came off that transporter on the hard shoulder?

[carlove]

vaud said:

Unless it came off that transporter on the hard shoulder?

Is there room with that van on it? Hard to tell at the distance. My guess is that’s likely stopped to check the occupants.

[Wills2]

v15ben said:

I'm guessing a test drive of some sort from JCT600?
Looks like a 488 perhaps?

Looks more like an 812 with the aero cut out behind the front wheel, plus the door is too close to the rear wheels for it to be mid engined.

(I'll likely be totally wrong.)

Edited by Wills2 on Tuesday 19th January 12:42

[snotrag]

No, its an 812, the distinctive diagonal slash from the front wheel gives it away - and google-fu shows the underbody strakes etc.

Nasty that.

[NEC3]

CRA1G said:

Feirny said:

Anyone put a Ferrari on its roof on the M621?

Oh dear... hope everyone's ok.... I can't work out which model it is.?

It is ( was ) an 812, only had it a few months, he has had plenty of Ferrari's in the past so is an experienced driver, he walked away no harm done.. ( only ego a bit battered.. ) Same place a Lambo smashed up last year. Supercar corner!!

[Rogue86]

Police/news reports I saw yesterday said it had aquaplaned.

[richatnort]

Rogue86 said:

Police/news reports I saw yesterday said it had aquaplaned.

I was thinking the exact same. The M621 towards birstall seems to be horrendous when it rains i've seen a number of car crashes from cars that look to have aqua plained on there. Even in my BMW when i had it I had to go 50ish to make sure i didn't follow suit.

[Bemmer]

NEC3 said:

It is ( was ) an 812, only had it a few months, he has had plenty of Ferrari's in the past so is an experienced driver, he walked away no harm done.. ( only ego a bit battered.. ) Same place a Lambo smashed up last year. Supercar corner!!

Is this person's initials PB.?

[NEC3]

Bemmer said:

NEC3 said:

It is ( was ) an 812, only had it a few months, he has had plenty of Ferrari's in the past so is an experienced driver, he walked away no harm done.. ( only ego a bit battered.. ) Same place a Lambo smashed up last year. Supercar corner!!

Is this person's initials PB.?

No... All his are still on 4 wheels as far as i know...

[carlove]

Was behind a white BMW i8 on Water Lane in York yesterday evening. I realised I’ve not seen one for ages, but I seem to recall seeing them quite a bit when they came out.
It can’t have been in electric mode, it sounded very nice.

[vaud]

carlove said:

Was behind a white BMW i8 on Water Lane in York yesterday evening. I realised I’ve not seen one for ages, but I seem to recall seeing them quite a bit when they came out.
It can’t have been in electric mode, it sounded very nice.

I drove one on a BMW extended test drive and was very, very impressed. They don't hold their value though!

[Shnozz]

vaud said:

carlove said:

Was behind a white BMW i8 on Water Lane in York yesterday evening. I realised I’ve not seen one for ages, but I seem to recall seeing them quite a bit when they came out.
It can’t have been in electric mode, it sounded very nice.

I drove one on a BMW extended test drive and was very, very impressed. They don't hold their value though!

Was that from Stratstone BMW by any chance? I went in twice asking not even for a test drive but if they could bring it 2 miles down the road to my city centre apartment to check it would fit in my parking space and be able to get out - twice they promised a follow up and twice they failed to do so.

[vaud]

Shnozz said:

Was that from Stratstone BMW by any chance? I went in twice asking not even for a test drive but if they could bring it 2 miles down the road to my city centre apartment to check it would fit in my parking space and be able to get out - twice they promised a follow up and twice they failed to do so.

It was Bradford JCT600 on Sticker Lane.

At the time it was actually a BMW funded rather than a dealer funded offer - BMW were moving a few i8s around dealers and paying for a member of staff to do the logistics, etc and then targeting customers. No idea how I ended up on their list but I wasn't going to turn down a day in an i8.

[v15ben]

First spot of 2021 for me.
Blue Aventador S near Snaith this afternoon.

[giblet]

AMG GTC Roadster in a rather nice shade of blue on the M621 this lunchtime and then a RR Ghost in Kirkstall. Looked a lot classier than a Phantom to me

[Feirny]

Silver 981 Cayman GT4 in Birkenshaw yesterday afternoon.

[RicksAlfas]

A 1950s Studebaker pick up near Denholme!
Looked like Tow Mater from Cars the Movie.

[Feirny]

Black McLaren 720s reg started R19, on Whitehall road toward Birkenshaw from chain bar today around 2.30. Booted it up the long open section and sounded glorious.

Not far behind was a grey Hyundai i30N and a yellow A35 AMG. Then an hour or so later along the same stretch a French Racing Blue XF-RS.

Not a bad walk this afternoon, a shame I didn’t see the local Senna or GT3, though.

[Phil Dicky]

Yellow Corvette (I think) Thornhill this afternoon
Not sure if it was a new one, not sure they are even available yet.

[ubbs]

A harrier jump jet (yes) on the back of a truck on the M62 near Castleford this morning, hopefully on its way to be restored as it was all stripped down.