A Lambo Huracan, a long way from home (Canada plates).
It snowed this weekend. I saw a car this morning driving, with snow on it; clearly it had been parked for the past couple of days. Ho-hum there’s nothing unusual about that; OTOH, how many people you know who own a Rolls Royce who don’t park it in a garage? Surely if you can afford a RR you have a nice house with a couple of garage bays, right???
Depends on how old it is. From what I understand really high end luxury cars depreciate a lot once they hit the used car market (because a really wealthy person would never be caught dead buying a used car, so the market for a used Rolls is rather limited). Something like a 20 year old Rolls is probably within reach of an average middle class person.
I’m getting about $75-$100k for a 2005 Phantom. Here’s a 2004 for $74,800 with only 16k miles on it.
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/c89e63f5-8f1d-4acd-96e4-ca0e0fb031d4/?aff=jdpresp&utm_campaign=jdpower&utm_source=jdpower&utm_medium=trp&utm_id=1041615235&utm_trusted=true
Looking through the pictures, I’m surprised a 2004 anything would have a built in car phone.
Another nice Bel Air
Any car not driving on the streets in Boston right now looks like every other car, just a lump of snow.
Today, for the first time in my life, I saw an Aston Martin on the road. It was dusk and it was a black car so I couldn’t tell you what model it was – either a DB11 or DB12. At a glance they look nearly identical. It did not have a V12, which narrows it down not at all.
Absolutely beautiful car though. I would be seriously hard-pressed to identify a better looking car. It’s been hours and I’m still drooling.
I saw a Ford Explorer ST in traffic today. I had no idea Ford made a high performance version of the Explorer, but apparently they do starting last year. It is very much a sleeper, the quad exhausts offer a hint that it’s a high performance vehicle, but otherwise it looks like a normal Explorer. It seemed quite quick from what I observed.
I believe that’s what the police in my area drive. At least based on the word EXPLORER across the front edge of the hood.
Very rare, or at least quite uncommon. I’ve seen one, once, in the early 1980s in San Francisco. I haven’t seen one in a handful of decades. They remind me of the Bricklin SV-1.
AZ-1, on an Autozam AZ-1 micro car imported from Japan. They’re built by Mazda. This car is a RHD car with a 660 CC 3-cyl motorcycle engine from Suzuki. Spotted in California, and owned by a Californian, it is nevertheless registered in Montana with Montana plates. That’s how you can own them here in CA.
I spotted a red AZ-1 in Sedona AZ with WA plates back in 2022, even posted about it in this thread.
Cool. This one was the only one I’ve ever seen.
The only AZ-1 I’ve seen in person was at the informal car show night at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank when I was down there last year.
But on the subject of Japanese kei sports cars, I used to sometimes see someone driving a Suzuki Cappuccino around here, but it’s been a few years since I’ve seen it. As I recall that car had Virginia plates.
Yesterday, a red truck with a big honkin’ Sterling grille – like this:
Turned out it’s just a rebadged Ram pickup with no real connection to the much earlier company from Milwaukee.
The ST is a trim level on the standard Explorer, available for the public to buy if you have enough fund$. Cops should be driving a Police Interceptor which are not available for sale to the general public. They have cop motors, cop tires, cop suspension, but now come with catalytic converters. 
Seriously, according to Wikipedia
Without looking it up, I bet it is the same engine that the 660 CC suzuki jimny kei-car uses.
In a month in the Philippines on vacation, those Suzuki Jimnys were the one car I really liked and I almost took one for a test drive. Well I thought about it anyway, but that’s as far as it got. I really like how they look.
When my wife moved in with me, she absolutely had to have a 4 wheel drive. She bought a Suzuki Sidekick. Really a great little car.
But I used to tease her about it. “I feel like I’m riding around in a snare drum” It was small and kinda noisy.
we still get those here in LatAm:
Sidekick = Gran Vitara
and the Jimny, too … incl. the 5 door version:
all 3 cost around U$20k … and especially the Jimny are “really go, not just show”.