Vehicles spotted in your neighborhood

Wow, that thing is pretty sweet. Seen a couple of them on the 101 here (or maybe the same one) and it looks good going down the road.

A few spottings:




I’ve always considered the TT one of the greatest modern automotive designs. Then it (almost immediately) grew a small rear spoiler - I think it was a mandated thing due to high-speed-becoming-airborn incidents (one of you Core-ites will know, I’m sure, please add . . . ).

Regardless: that spoiler, as little as it was, utterly destroyed its purity. It was so dissapointing! Because I rarely see a first-gen without the mandated recall item, I’ve gotten used to seeing that little wing’s abusive presence. But I saw this TT yesterday in its pure form, for the first time in ages, and had to take a couple of shots.

P.S. strange case of curb rash considering the crap parking job . . .



Saw a Z8 the other day but I was driving & couldn’t really take a snap of it. But this weekend I went and helped my friend pick up his “new” 928.

Found this hanging out at the greatest import mechanic in the world’s shop the other day. I just now remembered I have a bunch of shots from Petit LeMans that I need to post too. Soon.


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Only three images at a time?
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Just flipping back through this thread, I was at that show! Lots of sweet stuff.

parked just down the street from me.
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Friday afternoon @ the local brewery.



Highlights of yesterday:

1 - Balloon White Aventador
2 - Underground Racing Twin Turbo Aventador


3 - Spyder Performante Gallardo

4 - Ferrari FF

5 - Underground Racing Twin Turbo Ferrari 458


Aventadors and the Charlotte Skyline

wow!

I see your Aventadors and raise you a combine!

A fixture of the Midwest these months, as farmers cash in their crops for new equipment. I’ve always had a soft spot for combines.

This yellow Viper was hard to miss.


love the old non-US Fords ( at least I think this wasn’t in the US…)

They weren’t “Fords” over here… they were Mercurys. First Gen (1970-1977) were actually pretty nice. My wife’s mother had a 2.6L V-6 version.

After '78 they started to get too heavy, and when the 5.0L was introduced they essentially turned to mush.

1991 and on… m’eh. I’d rather have had the Miata it was based on.

Sorry Lew it wasn’t even based on the Miata. That would have been sensible. No it was based on the 323 and had transverse fwd.
Do you know japanese for “WTF?”?

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I’s still rather have the Miata.

BTW, the incomplete Cortina MkI project on eBay went for $10K

Lew, your mother in law had an awesome car!

Thanks for sharing… I didn’t realize they were around in the US

Ford Capri?

“The Capri was the product of an Australian car industry labouring under the shadow of industry minister John Button’s car plan that aimed to reduce the number of local car-makers by at least one. It spawned some truly awful badge-engineered products as manufacturers jumped into bed with each other to share models and boost production runs.

The car plan could also mean exporting cars as a way of surviving, and into that mindset was born the Capri convertible.

The plot was to sell the cars locally and through Mercury (a division of Ford) dealerships in the US, where convertibles have usually done well. But because of the car’s problems and some marketing issues in the US, the Capri was a lame duck.

The Capri was beset by quality control gremlins that immediately took the shine off the thing. The biggest problem centred on the manually operated convertible roof, which leaked like a Buckingham Palace butler. Ford replaced leaking lids under warranty but the replacements seemed no better and more than one Capri was hiding under its fourth or fifth top by the time the original owner screamed “enough!” and traded the thing in.”

Interiors were also a bit fly-apart, with poor plastics and dashboard graphics that were aimed at US buyers but looked ordinary here. Bumpers warped and cracked (or fell off) and Ford’s paint technology of the time meant that many Capris faded prematurely, particularly reds and darker colours.

Every one I’ve ever seen is in terrible nick.

Spotted this guy right around the corner from our house.