Saw a few on the way home last night. A Bentley Continental cruising along slowly in the right hand lane on Rt 128, I almost didn’t notice it. The car in grey just blends into the crowd from the back. Then a Maserati Ghibli headed the opposite way, weaving through traffic. Finally, and probably my favorite of the day, a late 70’s Ford F150 pickup that showed just how far pickup styling has come in the past 40 years.
Yup, see post #498.
Mazda 6 hatchback - Euro version (2013). Unfortunately no longer in production. I had a 2006 US one & loved it! The only notable exterior difference was the hatch had a rear wiper.
A 1958 Chevrolet Viking medium-duty truck, I’d never even heard of this model until I looked it up.
I just saw one here in Orlando. I didn’t even know Alfa was back in the US market. When did that happen? Does that mean I can buy a 1990s GTV and get parts and stuff here?
I saw a 1993-4 Chevy Caprice Classic Wagon (the rounded model that looked like whale) painted matte black with bright orange and yellow flames painted around the front wheel wells. That catches your eye, for sure.
Today, none. But over the weekend, many. McLarens, Mercedes, Ferraris, all manner of Corvettes… I was at the Long Beach Grand Prix.
Stuff like a truck full of money to follow you around for when it breaks down. And I saw my first F Type Jaguar in the wild today: pretty enough car, but I can’t shake the feeling that it looks like a Honda S2000.
Saturday was a good day. I saw a 1964 Pontiac Tempest convertible, and then also a 1971 Dodge Polara vintage police car.
I saw a black Ford GT driving. I believe it’s the first time I saw one on the road. IMO, it looks like it was pancaked in a car crusher.
Also saw a (modern) Mustang. It was blue, not dark green, but the plate gave me a chuckle: STEVE MCQ.
Not a car, per se, but three cars in a line at the stop light: A white Fiat 500 Pop, red Jaguar XF, and a silver Jeep Rubicon. I was bemused at the idea of three vehicles all basically doing the same job but in so manifestly different ways. That XF is a pretty beast, to be sure.
Good day for car spotting on my way home from work today. I followed a '98 Corvette Pace Car for several miles, while doing so a Ferrari with the top down passed us in the other direction (couldn’t tell the model that quick from the front). Next was an i8… beautiful car and finally a 6 series BMW convertible. All that in under 30 minutes.
Day of the Porsche sightings here. One Porsche Cayenne at the grocery store, then one 911 and one Boxter on the drive home.
I am staying in a fairly well-to-do area right now. People drive everything from Priuses to Porsches.
I was behind a BMW on my commute today and eventually I noticed the badge, it was a M235i. I didn’t even know the 2-series existed until today.
I believe there is even a 1 series available in Europe.
They’ve been around a little while now, but i’ve only seen a few on the road. They get really good reviews for fun and performance, and they are nice because they’re considerably smaller than the 3-series, which has gotten too big and bloated for my liking over the past four or five years.
Actually, BMW have been selling the 1-series in the US for a while. I’ve seen heaps of them here in San Diego.
The latest version of the 1-series, however, is apparently not coming to the US, at least according to BMW’s current plans. It’s a shame, because it gets rave reviews.
I saw my first BMW 4-series on the road a few weeks ago. It’s basically a 3-series coupe, but instead of having a 3-series coupe and sedan, the company decided recently to use different number designations for the two body types.
The 1-series is available in the US, I’ve even seen the 4-series here. I’ve just never seen a 2-series here.
BMW did one of their periodic numbering adjustments which they’ll screw up in short order. Odd numbers are sedans and even numbers are coupes/convertibles. Thus the 1 series as sold here in the states is now with the latest refresh a 2 series.
That leaves the 1 series no longer brought here (it’s a hatchback in Europe) as the outlier.
Eta: or, on reflection, what mhendo said.
I saw a row of five Tesla recharging stations at the Culvers in Mauston, Wi. Evidently, Tesla drivers like ButterBurgers. Saw one Tesla and three Corvette C7s, one of which was in the process of becoming a race car (installing safety gear, etc.) over the weekend.
Today, the most interesting vehicles viewed were those that are in the process of tearing up my residential street. Enduring two months of awkward mess for twenty years of good access seems like a fair trade.
I live in Carlisle, PA and this is car show season, so I see tons of unusual cars all the time. Even when it’s not car show season we have lots of fairly exotic cars around here. Within 10 minutes of where I am right now off the top of my head I can see a Bricklin SV1 and a Citroen SM, a collection of International Harvester Scouts and Travelalls, a few late-'60s Impalas, and at least one Ferrari.
Immaculate black Porsche 928 with what appeared to be Rinspeed wheels. Similar tothis. Drool.
