# 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:** 89
**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:** [September 18, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1763 "2017-09-18T15:32:34Z")
A second generation (1956-57) Lincoln Continental in mint restored condition, cruising along at highway speed. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1764 "2017-09-19T04:23:49Z")
Porsche 914, on the freeway. Amazingly small, those cars, and this comment from a former Fiat X1/9 owner. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1765 "2017-09-19T10:24:12Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Porsche 914, on the freeway. Amazingly small, those cars, and this comment from a former Fiat X1/9 owner. I saw a yellow 914 yesterday on Rt 128, I loved those cars as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1766 "2017-09-19T12:53:30Z")
A convertible VW bug a few decades old. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1767 "2017-09-20T11:38:27Z")
Saw a college-age male driving a Porsche (997 gen) 911 convertible on UK’s campus, really made me cringe. I remember the abuse my old Ford Granada endured with on-campus parking; I can’t imagine driving something that nice to school. I wouldn’t drive an old 944 or Boxster there. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1768 "2017-09-20T19:13:00Z")
I’ve seen the same Porsche GT3RS for several days now on my ride to work. I gather its this guy’s daily commuter. I had to check what they sell for - $175,000+ new. Must be nice. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1769 "2017-09-20T21:38:24Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > I’ve seen the same Porsche GT3RS for several days now on my ride to work. I gather its this guy’s daily commuter. I had to check what they sell for - $175,000+ new. Must be nice. It’s his choice but I’m against that. Since the 996 dropped 20 years ago, the 911 has pretty much been a sporty commuter car. The exception is the GT/GT3/GT3RS - those are the seriously track-oriented cars and are a pain on city streets. People with GT3s in the garage are literally why Porsche developed the Cayenne. ---
**Author:** ![SOJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SOJA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SOJA)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1770 "2017-09-21T03:29:20Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Two Porsches yesterday, a Cayenne and then a 911 a couple of hours later. But what made them interesting was their bright colors. It was a bright and sunny day, so their colors really popped. > > The Cayenne was this bright yellow-green blend that I’d describe with: pea soup greenish, or bile greenish yellow. An odd color, neither green nor yellow, but clearly somewhere between the two. I wonder what its registration says it is. I searched, and even tried to build my own Cayenne on Porsche’s site, but couldn’t find that color. > Apparently it’s called _ **Peridot Green** _. Image: [porsche cayenne peridot green - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=768&bih=928&noj=1&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=gKGyWcaYKsGCjwOAlI2YBQ&q=porsche+cayenne+peridot+green&oq=porsche+cayenne+peridot+green&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3...42676.48229.0.48819.10.9.1.0.0.0.553.1712.0j6j1j5-1.8.0....0...1.1.64.mobile-gws-img..1.3.504...30i10k1.TP28IMsAL4o#imgrc=LYKsrlm0Pkzn1M:) > > The 911 was definitely a blue, but a unique blue I’d never seen before. A search quickly found that it’s apparently called _ **Miami Blue** _. Images: [porsche 911 miami blue - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=768&bih=928&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=u6CyWcK6LoS6jwOu0b6oBw&q=porsche+911+miami+blue&oq=porsche+911+miami+blue&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3..0l2j0i5i30k1j0i8i30k1l2.21907.23822.0.24306.6.6.0.0.0.0.158.728.0j5.5.0....0...1.1.64.mobile-gws-img..1.5.728...0i7i30k1j0i7i5i30k1j0i8i7i30k1j0i13k1.YQRI5srTTas) > Those colors made me think back on some European car colors of the 1970s. Bright, almost loud, flashy, unique. Yep. Those are called PTS or paint-to-sample colors. The whole of VAG does this except for the cheaper mainstream brands like Skoda or VW. BMW has Individual and I forget what MBZ calls theirs. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1771 "2017-09-21T18:33:58Z")
Miami Blue looks like am M&M to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1772 "2017-09-22T00:28:50Z")
Ferrari 360 limo [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uVK-7gf-TQk/maxresdefault.jpg "WTF I Found a $400,000 FERRARI LIMO") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVK-7gf-TQk) ---
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1773 "2017-09-22T02:17:56Z")
A Volvo SUV with the license plate MTNESTR ---
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1774 "2017-09-22T13:42:25Z")
A 1st-generation Buick Riviera, circa 1963-1965. And then also a 1st-generation Toyota Celica, circa 1970-1977. It was a sedan, not the hatchback, and its rear end was lifted and was shod with oversized dragster slicks. Interesting. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1775 "2017-09-22T13:44:28Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > A Volvo SUV with the license plate MTNESTR MTNESTR: What’s its meaning? Mountain Esther? Mountain Easter? Mount Nor-Easter? Mountain Nester? ---
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1776 "2017-09-22T15:43:00Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > MTNESTR: What’s its meaning? Mountain Esther? Mountain Easter? Mount Nor-Easter? Mountain Nester? Empty Nester ---
**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:** [September 22, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1777 "2017-09-22T16:01:44Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Empty Nester Nice! ---
**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:** [September 23, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1778 "2017-09-23T18:43:15Z")
Yellow Corvette C4, out for a winery tour. ---
**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:** [September 23, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1779 "2017-09-23T19:41:07Z")
A Triumph TR7 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1780 "2017-09-23T20:48:44Z")
I’m cheating because I saw this a few weeks ago and didn’t get to report it, but I saw a red Lotus covertible, top down, parked in a public garage. [![](http://www.roadsmile.com/images/lotus-elise-convertible_red_11.jpg) ](http://www.roadsmile.com/images/lotus-elise-convertible_red_11.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1781 "2017-09-24T15:59:49Z")
[Triumph TR4.](https://www.google.com/search?q=triumph+tr4&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-w7SlmL7WAhVExYMKHcGCAv4QsAQIJw&biw=1536&bih=735) ---
**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:** [September 25, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/1782 "2017-09-25T20:39:20Z")
A late model Dodge Charger. Not so unusual in itself, but the paint job included professionally done murals of [Marvin the Martian and his dog](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1920&bih=1075&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=marvin+martian+and+his+dog&oq=marvin+martian+and+his+dog&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i8i30k1.30314.32476.0.32700.12.12.0.0.0.0.91.645.12.12.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.12.642...0j0i67k1.0.m7wF8_i6S8I#imgrc=uwYc8Gwz4gYowM:). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=90)