Driving down the interstate the other day, in the right lane. I glanced in my rearview mirror and saw a car in the left lane that looked strange somehow.
Took me a second or two to realize that
a) It appeared to have weird wing-like protrusions curving up and slightly outward on each side, and
b) it had THREE headlights.
Then it passed me, and in addition to those oddnesses, it only had one rear tire, right in the middle. The passenger section was open, also - dunno if any top could have been put on it but when I saw it, it was open like a Jeep.
I wonder if it even qualified as a car or was legally a motorcycle.
My son and I both thought it looked like the Batmobile.
Aha - I finally googled it, and I’m pretty sure it was a Polaris Slingshot.
Both sweet rides in completely different ways. I’ll take an I8 in Valencia Orange please.
On my way home Monday saw this Buick Skylark/GS convertible It looked like the bucket seats were colour matched to the exterior, it was a really nice looking car.
Possibly one of the ugliest cars of all time. I remember, as a car-mad kid in the 1980s, walking into the Aston Martin dealership in Sydney and looking at the Lagonda they had for sale. It looked like it was from another planet.
And the interior was extra weird. Massive amounts of new electronics that, according to magazine reviews and frustrated owners, never actually worked.
Not quite on topic because this was on TV rather than out on the street, but there is a very odd advertisement currently circulating for a rodent poison, that features a dead mouse being fired from the exhaust of a car, at a tombstone with a target painted on it. Adding to the general air of strangeness is the fact that the car is a late '80s-early '90s Citroen BX, a type that was never officially sold in the US.
Later today I saw a very nice and clean Datsun 260Z, and then a not-so-clean but running well (well enough, anyway) and fairly uncommon 2nd-generation Mazda Rx-7 convertible.
This is more “least interesting” than “most interesting”, but remarkable for its unexpected sheer blandness:
Some kind of Maserati. White. At a glance, could easily have been mistaken for any number of generic sedans like an Accord, as it had that same bland rounded-corner sedan look.
Heck, the newer Rolls Royces are bland, but at least they have the grill in the front. This had nothing to distinguish it except the name spelled out on the very back.
