Teh Spotted Thread

[Rich B]

They've just built a Maserati dealership on my little high st in Ascot - they have a GT in the window, I presumed it was an old shape one (which I thought looked very old fashioned) Is this new one very similar?

[Mito Man]

It looks very similar, only front and rear lights and bumpers look different. I’m not sure if it’s a new chassis even, kind of lost interest in reading further about it once I saw it’s a V6.

[mik]

It looks very similar, only front and rear lights and bumpers look different. I’m not sure if it’s a new chassis even, kind of lost interest in reading further about it once I saw it’s a V6.

AFAIK it's available as full EV, or V6 (essentially the MC20 powerplant)

[IanF]

Saw a red new M2 on the way in to Ascot.. lots of presence and it looks like a smaller body tightly wrapped on a M3 chassis. Looked good

And an all black Electre at Soho Riverhouse this evening.. lighting wasn’t great and it just looked like a generic, almost GTA-ish, modern SUV coupe

[Explosive Newt]

Lotus Eletre seen waiting to charge at Blyth services on the A1.

Without the (big) Lotus badge you wouldn’t know it was anything special and looks ungainly at the rear. I would have easily mistaken it for a Kia.

[Matty]

Spotted on a Reddit post in UKCarTalk:

[Rich B]

I just saw an AM cygnet breaking down on the A404. I guess they added more AM than just badges and leather!

[nuttinnew]

^ I wonder if they were so expensive because of the time it took to remove all the Toyota badges from everything?

[nuttinnew]

I saw a couple of things that made the day better (not my pics...);


something of this ilk;





and something of this ilk;





The weather was grotty, didn't get the regs

[mik]

A Dubai-registered Model-Y in a village not far from here. Wot?

[jamcg]

A Dubai-registered Model-Y in a village not far from here. Wot?

Ex-pat visiting for Christmas maybe? Not sure why you’d bring the car though, unless it’s cheaper to fly it out as cargo and sit in it

[Peterlplp]

Rare unbarryed Chaser:


Crown athlete V - 1jz rwd:




New Z, couldn't get a good angle because it was behind some old shitter:








That i20n to the left looked pretty mean as well:

[mik]

Not spotted by me, but it’s all over my twitter feed.

Like oks like a life-size hotwheels toy. The rear wheels in particular look cartoonishly big.

[Mito Man]

[Rich B]

Not convinced on the legality of that plate!

[integrale_evo]

Not spotted by me, but it’s all over my twitter feed.

Like oks like a life-size hotwheels toy. The rear wheels in particular look cartoonishly big.

From some angles I think it’s on of the best looking cars I’ve ever seen. From other angles it just looks wonky and broken. I thought it looked particularly crap being driven up goodwood. I’m assuming the rear end just has absolutely gigantic spacers / wheel offset instead of proper wide track suspension because the wheel angles with suspension movement made it look all messed up.

[Beany]

What the fuck is that garbage?

[mik]

This seems to be a very professional job, but I’m not sure the end result is very pleasing

XJS with a Xantia rear end - including rear wiper….



Does appear to be real though - also spotted in 2019

[nuttinnew]

The number plate looks awful

[jamcg]

The real question is- where’s the xantia with the back end of an xjs?