Taillights look like they were stolen from a Mustang.
The whole back half kinda does. If this is all I saw, I would’ve assume it was a Mustang
compared to…
It’s explicitly a mini Mustang. Toyota wanted a pony car of their own and the Celica was the result. IIRC this was discussed on Jay Leno’s Garage.
No pictures, but on Tuesday I spotted a Toyota Solara in parked on the opposite side of the highway in the breakdown lane. The interesting part was that the front end was completely engulfed in flames.
Also I spoted a Pontiac Fiero - I can’t believe they were last produced in 1988.
I wonder if it was stock or had an engine swap. There are companies which will replace the I4 or V6 with a V8, for a price; here’s one.
This morning I saw a Smart Car with stickers on the doors and rear that read “Team-JD Racing”. Which makes me wonder, do they actually race Smart Cars, or does the car just belong to some member of the team? Actually… Smart Car racing sounds kind of fun. I imagine it being kind of like go-kart racing.
ETA: I Googled them, and there appears to be both a NASCAR team and an Italian Formula 1 team that use that name, so I assume the driver was just a fan of one of them (most likely the NASCAR one).
If there’s a motor on it, someone races it.
Pretty popular in Europe.
The original 2.5L 4 cylinder in the Fiero came with 92 horsepower
(insert Simpson haha meme)
Based on the condition of the Fiero I saw, I don’t think anyone did anything to help it in the past 2 decades.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted to this long running thread but I may win the internet today.
The most interesting car I saw today was a Tesla Cybertruck trying to parallel park in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood. Not only that, but it was a recently purchased Cybertruck with a temporary tag.
This is a very densely populated area, I didn’t enjoy parallel parking a PT Cruiser when I had a car. I can’t imagine this person parallel parking such a beast.
I’d just gone across the street to grab junk food, but when I came back home a few minutes later, they were still trying to park that monstrosity.
I don’t think this is correct? Currently only Ferrari and Racing Bulls are Italian Formula 1 teams, and I don’t recognise that name from any previous years either?
I’m just going by Wikipedia… technically the name was JD Motorsport, but it showed up in the Google results.
The Wikipedia entry shows them running in a bunch of other series (“formulas”), but not Formula One.
Ah. I guess being someone who doesn’t really follow motorsports, I saw the word “formula” and my brain just inserted a “one” after it.
Yesterday, as I was leaving the California Capital Airshow I was in line behind this Fisker Ocean, an electric SUV:
Today I saw this very nice early 1990s Ford Ranger. I always enjoy seeing ordinary vehicles from decades ago that are still being driven, especially when they’re as nice as this one. And that’s a very '90s shade of green, too.
Yesterday in San Francisco I saw for the first time, out in the wild, my first Porsche 911 Dakar. It was clad in the Roughroads racing livery, and without the roof rack. Unfortunately it was a brief sighting. He was oncoming in fast moving city street traffic, and I could not double back to get another look, let alone snap a picture.
That was my first sighting in the wild. About two months ago I saw one for the first time ever, in a dealership. I’m pretty sure I posted about that here, including some of these pictures.
Traveled to Choteau MT for a wedding, and spotted some fun cars walking around town.
1962 Ford F-100 pickup, just needs a little polish
1963 or 1964 Cadillac Sedan Deville
1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu
1985 Datsun by Nissan pickup truck
The Malibu and Datsun look like drivers!
On the drive to work this morning I was behind a VW Eurovan VR6, which was made from 1996-2003. It looks like it was in great shape, and a daily driver.