# What's the most interesting car you saw today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889 "2014-05-21T02:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/282 "2014-10-01T13:29:17Z")
Back in the 90’s I was visiting my old neighborhood in a Seattle suburb and as I rounded a corner I spotted a DeLorean. Then another. And another. There were about 10 of them parked on the street and in a driveway. Turns out it was the DeLorean enthusiast group of Seattle meeting. Very odd. ---
**Author:** ![DooProcess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DooProcess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooProcess)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/283 "2014-10-01T14:23:58Z")
Southwest Michigan last Saturday I drove up beside this [http://www.bigbananacar.com/pics.php](http://www.bigbananacar.com/pics.php) happened to be full of nice looking college age sweeties also… ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/284 "2014-10-01T14:42:23Z")
A picture would’ve been nice, DooTell… ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/285 "2014-10-01T21:20:28Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Nice! > > I’ve only ever seen silver (stainless) DeLoreans. Apparently there are other colors but I’ve never seen one live. There weren’t other colors - over the years people have painted a few, but I think DMC only produced one painted car. A big part of its futuristic vision and advanced mfg tech was eliminating/reducing the need to paint them or for owners to care for a paint finish. As environmentally and logistically troublesome as painting still is, I’m surprised he idea was resurrected for green cars like the Prius, Insight, or Tesla line. Speaking of which, I saw a Prius sedan for the first time. Thought they were all hatchbacks but passed a battered rusty old one recently and subsequently learned the 2002-2003 version was a four door. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/286 "2014-10-01T21:47:43Z")
As I recall, the plan was for DeLorean to release other colors by anodizing the body, not painting them although wikipedia says otherwise. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if someone had done it on their own. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/287 "2014-10-03T03:41:22Z")
I saw an immaculate scarlet XK150 this morning, very similar to [this](http://www.hagleycar.com/images/cr696.jpg). I may have dribbled a little. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/288 "2014-10-07T16:19:47Z")
Two great cars on my afternoon run yesterday. First was a 1963 split window Corvette coupe. And it sounded great going by at low speed, nice rumble. The second was a bright red Ferrari California T, looked like it had just been driven off the dealer lot. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/289 "2014-10-11T04:32:14Z")
Today in Sunnyvale, CA, a 2014 Porsche Boxster. What was unique about this one was that it was brown with a tan interior. Normally I’m not a fan of brown but this brown was sharp, with understated sophistication and class. It was very nice! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/290 "2014-10-11T04:33:38Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > As I recall, the plan was for DeLorean to release other colors by anodizing the body, not painting them although wikipedia says otherwise. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if someone had done it on their own. I remember this also - anodizing, not paint. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/291 "2014-10-11T04:38:51Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > Speaking of which, I saw a Prius sedan for the first time. Thought they were all hatchbacks but passed a battered rusty old one recently and subsequently learned the 2002-2003 version was a four door. There are a few around, though not many of them. I think most owners traded theirs in for the significantly more popular hatchback. The last one I saw was maybe 2-3 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/292 "2014-10-11T11:50:41Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Today in Sunnyvale, CA, a 2014 Porsche Boxster. What was unique about this one was that it was brown with a tan interior. Normally I’m not a fan of brown but this brown was sharp, with understated sophistication and class. It was very nice! Ah, Porsche’s macadamia brown metallic, one of the nicer shades of brown on modern cars. I often wonder if in a few years we’ll have the same backlash we had against browns of the '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/293 "2014-10-11T12:17:55Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > Ah, Porsche’s macadamia brown metallic, one of the nicer shades of brown on modern cars. I often wonder if in a few years we’ll have the same backlash we had against browns of the '70s. Yes, a great looking car. [Like this picture shows it.](http://imganuncios.mitula.net/new_2014_porsche_boxster_convertible_100571715415489722.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/294 "2014-10-11T12:21:40Z")
Saw a gorgeous yellow Metro with a white hard top and old school Craiger mags. Looked really hot! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/295 "2014-10-15T16:55:33Z")
During my run yesterday was a Maserati Ghibli and another car that looked like a Lotus Elise but rear spoiler was wrong. Maybe an aftermarket spoiler, or some other car that I can’t identify. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/296 "2014-10-15T17:24:47Z")
My neighborhood is a comfortable, middle-class area with lots of educated professionals, and has the standard car makeup of the demographic: lots of Hondas, Volkswagens, Subarus, Priuses, and Mazdas, with a smaller assortment of lower-spec BMWs, Audis, and Mercs. Yesterday, while i was out grabbing some fruit and veges, i saw a Bentley Coupe on the road, and in the parking lot of the produce market i saw my first in-the-flesh Jaguar F-Type convertible. I’ve never quite understood the appeal of Bentley Coupes. If i wanted a real luxury car, i’d probably go for a sedan, and if i wanted a performance coupe, i’d probably go for something much more fun than a Bentley. That F-Type is one fine looking car, though, and it sounds awesome, even at parking-lot speeds. ---
**Author:** ![tbook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tbook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbook)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/297 "2014-10-15T18:20:24Z")
2014 Morgan 3 wheeler. Red. It was very cool. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan\_Motor\_Company#2011\_Morgan\_3\_Wheeler](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Motor_Company#2011_Morgan_3_Wheeler) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/298 "2014-10-16T15:55:42Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > During my run yesterday was a Maserati Ghibli and another car that looked like a Lotus Elise but rear spoiler was wrong. Maybe an aftermarket spoiler, or some other car that I can’t identify. The Tesla roadster is based on the Elise and looks similar. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/299 "2014-10-16T16:14:17Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > The Tesla roadster is based on the Elise and looks similar. I took a look online and I don’t think that’s it. I’m now actually convincing myself that it was an Acura NSX and I just wasn’t paying much attention. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/300 "2014-10-16T16:58:05Z")
I saw a Tesla in Boston on Tuesday - and yes, had to argue with Junior, who was insistent it was a Lotus. Then yesterday I saw an MG Midget for perhaps the first time in ten or more years, on the highway. Thought it was an MGB until I got closer, and spent the entire time coming up/passing by/moving on marveling at what a tiny car it was. It was surrounded by small cars - Corollas, a Prius, other stuff on the small end of modern - and they all loomed over it. It looked exactly like a toy car on the highway. I’d have sworn it was the same size as those ridiculously expensive toys Hammacher-Schlemmer sells at Xmas. It got more toylike in my rearview mirrors. My sister used to have one and I remember it well… but you know, I think they were bigger then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/301 "2014-10-16T18:03:00Z")
Today i saw a [Datsun 510](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsun_510), with an old California black and yellow license plate, and bodywork that was an unholy combination of rust and primer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=16)