# 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:** 67
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1322 "2016-10-04T06:41:27Z")
Driving down the interstate the other day, in the right lane. I glanced in my rearview mirror and saw a car in the left lane that looked strange somehow. Took me a second or two to realize that a) It appeared to have weird wing-like protrusions curving up and slightly outward on each side, and b) it had THREE headlights. Then it passed me, and in addition to those oddnesses, it only had one rear tire, right in the middle. The passenger section was open, also - dunno if any top could have been put on it but when I saw it, it was open like a Jeep. I wonder if it even qualified as a car or was legally a motorcycle. My son and I both thought it looked like the Batmobile. Aha - I finally googled it, and I’m pretty sure it was a [Polaris Slingshot](http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonfogelson/2014/07/30/2015-polaris-slingshot-three-wheels-and-a-prayer/#2a5dad372d39). ---
**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 4, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1323 "2016-10-04T15:06:30Z")
Speaking of Batmobiles, the other day in my local Safeway parking lot there was a parked [BMW i8](https://www.google.com/search?q=bmw+i8&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWuKeDtsHPAhUU8mMKHeEuAnkQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672). ---
**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 4, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1324 "2016-10-04T23:40:04Z")
A Triumph TR6 in BRG. ---
**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 5, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1325 "2016-10-05T16:08:23Z")
Both sweet rides in completely different ways. I’ll take an I8 in Valencia Orange please. On my way home Monday saw this [Buick Skylark/GS convertible](https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwj65dDKhcTPAhUHwGMKHUcUCcsQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fratrodbenny%2Fstatus%2F767420693218811905&bvm=bv.134495766,d.cGc&psig=AFQjCNE30ncslu5dOP4g3_V0QXsdw5enrQ&ust=1475769863741311&cad=rjthttp://) It looked like the bucket seats were colour matched to the exterior, it was a really nice looking car. Top pic on right. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1326 "2016-10-06T13:36:28Z")
Yesterday I saw an expensive-looking 4-door that appeared to be a caricature of an 80s era American sedan: [![](https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg) ](https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg) [http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd\_crown\_victoria/ford\_ltd\_crown\_victoria\_5.jpg](http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd_crown_victoria/ford_ltd_crown_victoria_5.jpg) Turns out I laid eyes on my first Aston Martin Lagonda. [![](https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623_1.jpg) ](https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623_1.jpg) ---
**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 7, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1327 "2016-10-07T13:59:34Z")
1970 Buick Skylark ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1328 "2016-10-07T20:24:59Z")
Sunbeam Tiger ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1329 "2016-10-08T07:40:29Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Yesterday I saw an expensive-looking 4-door that appeared to be a caricature of an 80s era American sedan: > [https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg](https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg) > [http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd\_crown\_victoria/ford\_ltd\_crown\_victoria\_5.jpg](http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd_crown_victoria/ford_ltd_crown_victoria_5.jpg) > > Turns out I laid eyes on my first Aston Martin Lagonda. > [https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623\_1.jpg](https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623_1.jpg) Looks like a 4-door DeLorean. Incredible. ---
**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 8, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1330 "2016-10-08T15:35:25Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Yesterday I saw an expensive-looking 4-door that appeared to be a caricature of an 80s era American sedan: > [https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg](https://roadandtrash.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1984-chevy-caprice-cardomain-dot-com.jpg) > [http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd\_crown\_victoria/ford\_ltd\_crown\_victoria\_5.jpg](http://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/f/ford/ltd_crown_victoria/ford_ltd_crown_victoria_5.jpg) > > Turns out I laid eyes on my first Aston Martin Lagonda. > [https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623\_1.jpg](https://automotiveviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/4623_1.jpg) Possibly one of the ugliest cars of all time. I remember, as a car-mad kid in the 1980s, walking into the Aston Martin dealership in Sydney and looking at the Lagonda they had for sale. It looked like it was from another planet. And the interior was [extra weird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Lagonda#/media/File:AstonMartinLagonda-interior.jpg). Massive amounts of new electronics that, according to magazine reviews and frustrated owners, never actually worked. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1331 "2016-10-08T21:18:13Z")
Forgot this one yesterday: An very nice [Oldsmobile 442](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_442). Maybe 2nd/3rd generation. Nice light blue color with white striping. ---
**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 12, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1332 "2016-10-12T12:06:19Z")
2nd generation (1967-69) Plymouth Barracuda. I think it was a convertible, but it could have been a notchback with a landau roof. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1333 "2016-10-12T18:19:49Z")
I saw a really nice Cadillac Allante this weekend. White with the top down, I still like these, though they do look pretty dated. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1334 "2016-10-13T00:31:15Z")
Not quite on topic because this was on TV rather than out on the street, but there is a very odd advertisement currently circulating for a rodent poison, that features a dead mouse being fired from the exhaust of a car, at a tombstone with a target painted on it. Adding to the general air of strangeness is the fact that the car is a late '80s-early '90s [Citroen BX](http://www.simoncars.co.uk/citroen/slides/Citroen%20BX%2019%20TZD%201992%20front.jpg), a type that was never officially sold in the US. ---
**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 13, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1335 "2016-10-13T01:10:11Z")
Today was a bright, sunny day and I saw a bright yellow Porsche 914 on the highway - even a brighter yellow because of the sun. ---
**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 13, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1336 "2016-10-13T05:23:27Z")
Later today I saw a very nice and clean Datsun 260Z, and then a not-so-clean but running well (well enough, anyway) and fairly uncommon 2nd-generation Mazda Rx-7 convertible. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1337 "2016-10-14T15:30:40Z")
This is more “least interesting” than “most interesting”, but remarkable for its unexpected sheer blandness: Some kind of Maserati. White. At a glance, could easily have been mistaken for any number of generic sedans like an Accord, as it had that same bland rounded-corner sedan look. Heck, the newer Rolls Royces are bland, but at least they have the grill in the front. This had nothing to distinguish it except the name spelled out on the very back. Something like this: [http://www.futurecarmodel.com/2016-maserati-quattroporte-concept-release/](http://www.futurecarmodel.com/2016-maserati-quattroporte-concept-release/) (without the model dressing the scene up of course, as the car was in motion at the time). ---
**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 14, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1338 "2016-10-14T15:36:40Z")
The 2011 blue Ford Escape that rear ended me on the highway today. :smack: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1339 "2016-10-14T15:37:52Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The 2011 blue Ford Escape that rear ended me on the highway today. :smack: ☹ Ouch!!! Obviously you survived, as this is not a zombie thread 😃 And, clearly the Ford Escape found _your_ car pretty interesting or they wouldn’t have been following so closely. ---
**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 14, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1340 "2016-10-14T15:45:40Z")
Once again, our hitch mounted bike rack gave its life to protect mine. ---
**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 14, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1341 "2016-10-14T16:38:01Z")
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