# 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:** 70
**Author:** ![Eggerhaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Eggerhaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggerhaus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1382 "2016-10-28T13:56:53Z")
Last week I saw an AMC Pacer! Squat, wide, lots of glass. I drove a Pacer when I was younger. (Geez that dates me.) ---
**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 30, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1383 "2016-10-30T11:26:13Z")
I see Maserati Ghiblis from time to time, maybe 1-2 a month, but yesterday I saw a Maserati Quattroporte. Nice! They start at only around $104K. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1384 "2016-10-30T15:58:07Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I see Maserati Ghiblis from time to time, maybe 1-2 a month, but yesterday I saw a Maserati Quattroporte. Nice! > > They start at only around $104K. That’s all. I think you can find an early Q-porte for under $20k now - they depreciate like nobody’s business. Part of that seems to be the Italian parts supply issue - you can get parts, but you’re waiting weeks or months. What I saw interesting was a first-gen Porsche Cayman, which made me realize I haven’t seen a Cayman since moving to Kentucky two years ago (this was while driving thru Ohio). I actually thought “Is that a Boxster with a hardtop?” before I remembered what it was. I haven’t seen the current Cayman on the road yet, and it’s been out for years. ---
**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 30, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1385 "2016-10-30T16:05:46Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > I haven’t seen the current Cayman on the road yet, and it’s been out for years. Actually, the current Cayman, the [718](http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2017-porsche-718-cayman-manual-test-review), was really only released this year. They’ve switched out the old, naturally aspirated flat-6 engines and replaced them with turbocharged flat 4s. The body also has some minor changes. ---
**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 30, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1386 "2016-10-30T18:03:28Z")
A Lamborghini Aventador coupe in black on the other side of the highway. ---
**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 30, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1387 "2016-10-30T22:29:27Z")
A Jaguar XKR Coupe, approx. 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1388 "2016-10-30T23:35:51Z")
Jeep Wagoneer (circa 1968) and early 1950’s Ford sedan parked alongside each other in a body shop’s lot. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1389 "2016-10-31T11:25:49Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Actually, the current Cayman, the [718](http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2017-porsche-718-cayman-manual-test-review), was really only released this year. > > They’ve switched out the old, naturally aspirated flat-6 engines and replaced them with turbocharged flat 4s. The body also has some minor changes. I figured they were due for a new model (Porsche follows a 7 year cycle, iirc) but I didn’t know it was out already. You know what this means, right? I’ve never seen a 2nd-gen Cayman on the road for the entire model run! Come to think of it, it means I’ve never seen a 3rd-gen Boxster either. All I’ve seen in KY are 986s and the occasional 987, and one speed yellow 997. Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1390 "2016-10-31T20:59:47Z")
This weekend I saw a 1962 Land Cruiser in the wild. Nice looking early SUV. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1391 "2016-11-03T01:45:59Z")
GT40. A lovely sight. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1392 "2016-11-03T19:45:29Z")
A bland sedan, the Jaguar XF 3.0. So bland it could pass for something like a Hyundai ([image](https://www.google.com/search?q=Jaguar+XK+3.0&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX9-Gvqo3QAhVjlFQKHS5HBjgQ_AUICCgC&biw=1024&bih=672#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=Jaguar+XF+3.0&imgrc=NjBSWfLv_jlpvM%3A)). Not only that, but this one had the old Jag hood emblem of the pouncing Jaguar ([images](https://www.google.com/search?q=Jaguar+XK+3.0&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX9-Gvqo3QAhVjlFQKHS5HBjgQ_AUICCgC&biw=1024&bih=672#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=Jag+hood+emblem+of+the+pouncing+Jaguar)). On an old, classic Jag, that hood emblem is classic, but on this Hyundai-like thing it looks out of place, to me it looks like a little hood penis (I’m obviously not a fan of the little hood penis on a modern car - [image from, interestingly enough, a page that says it looks horrid](https://www.google.com/search?q=Jaguar+XK+3.0&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX9-Gvqo3QAhVjlFQKHS5HBjgQ_AUICCgC&biw=1024&bih=672#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=Jaguar+sedan+hood+emblem&imgrc=2hVDIPpm1gO0UM%3A)). ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1393 "2016-11-03T21:02:32Z")
I saw this [BMW M1](http://www.coys.co.uk/showroom-cars/1978-bmw-m1-bmw-works-car) today - yes that exact one. I get off the bus outside the showroom of a classic car auctioneers and this just happens to be what is in the front window today. I expect some of you guys would be drooling at some of the cars they have in there but TBH I am mostly not that bothered. They do also have an original Dalek from the 1970s but I am even less of a Dr Who fan than I am a car enthusiast. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1394 "2016-11-05T14:28:39Z")
Two beauties yesterday. First, a Lexus RC F ([Google images](https://www.google.com/search?q=Lexus+RCF&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj94vC6JHQAhXKxlQKHXmWCHAQ_AUIBygB&biw=1024&bih=672)). Gorgeous. Next, a 1958 Chevrolet Impala, very clean, [like this one from Wikipedia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/1958_Chevrolet-Impala.jpg). ---
**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:** [November 9, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1395 "2016-11-09T17:43:23Z")
A Sterling Bullet - a rebadged Dodge Ram pickup body that was sold by Sterling from 2007-2009. I’d never heard of one before. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1396 "2016-11-12T04:09:11Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > A Sterling Bullet - a rebadged Dodge Ram pickup body that was sold by Sterling from 2007-2009. I’d never heard of one before. Funny, I associate Sterling with the rebadged cars they had here in the late 80s. I know Sterling Trucks but when I read this, I immediately thought of the cars so I had to look up the truck. Then I recognized the badge. D’oh. No wonder their pickups look like Dodge Rams. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1397 "2016-11-12T04:20:26Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I see Maserati Ghiblis from time to time, maybe 1-2 a month, but yesterday I saw a Maserati Quattroporte. Nice! > > They start at only around $104K. That’s all. One today, but they are like Civics here. Ghiblis? Never seen one of the most beautiful cars ever in these parts. We tend toward the (dismissive sniff) nouveau riche here. New money has no taste. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1398 "2016-11-12T16:21:01Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > One today, but they are like Civics here. Ghiblis? Never seen one of the most beautiful cars ever in these parts. We tend toward the (dismissive sniff) nouveau riche here. New money has no taste. Where, roughly, is ‘these parts’? Curious, not stalking you. 🙂 Yesterday was a good day, I spotted two most interesting cars in San Jose CA: 1970 Chevy Nova 427, yellow, clean, running strong (and loud!) Datsun 280Z convertible conversion, red, clean, very pretty ---
**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:** [November 13, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1399 "2016-11-13T01:08:25Z")
This 1954 [Victresse S1A roadster](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/30/43/963043fad8ebbdcb9a5f5142ffe8bd7a.jpg). (not my photo) Victresse essentially made fiberglass bodies sized to fit various contemporary (usually Ford) chassis; about 200 bodies were sold originally, with only about 30 complete cars still in existence. The one in the photo is a recent build from a Texas barn-find body and frame. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1400 "2016-11-13T02:04:14Z")
From “Outrageous Acts of Science”: [big banana car](http://themutantbrothers.com/mutant-brothers-vehicles/mutant_big_banana_car.php). ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1401 "2016-11-15T15:17:23Z")
Late 1960s MB 280 SL convertible, top down in Boston in November. Couldn’t tell the color as it was dark out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=71)