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GG. wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 3:26 pm Interesting spot near me recently:



From a DVLA reg check, it is apparent it is a (very nice) backdate - it does also have a '3.2' sticker in the rear window if you look closely.

Also slightly puzzling in that it is apparently a 1984 (so very early 3.2 Carrera) but not registered until 1991. On that basis I'd assume it was re-registered on import but you can also see that its RHD which presumable means mostly likely a Cyprus (C98) car.

There's also an Allegro hiding in the back of shot so a double spotted

Could it be from Japan?

Could well be. Non-UK RHD Porsches were commonly Cyprus back in the day but can't rule it out.

Whilst I haven’t spotted anything really interesting there’s loads of cars here which you don’t see as many of in the UK. I’ve seen a few 4Cs every day whilst in Italy/Switzerland. BMW 8 series convertible seem to be very popular as does the X7. M2s are seen pretty much on every Main Street. Models 3s must make up 1% of the car population - they’re like Prius’s back home. - Teslas in general are much more common than in the UK but I’ve seen only 1 i3 and no other electric cars. The Urus is pretty much common as muck, like our Range Rover, of which there are almost none.
Every car is wearing winter tyres.

I've yet to see an Urus or an X7

Zonda_ wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2019 9:55 am I've yet to see an Urus or an X7

I've seen a Urus and wished I hadn't. Hideous, vulgar thing. I saw an X7 at the airport and wow. That grille is something else

A Raptor Ranger yesterday. It looked great.

Mito Man wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:33 am
Every car is wearing winter tyres.

Are they all skidding around on the cobbled roads like in Prague?

Didn’t realise the X7 was a thing.

I had John Terry’s wife behind me on the M25 last weekend in a beige Bentayga. She talked non-stop for about an hour.

240PP wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:56 pm Didn’t realise the X7 was a thing.

I just had to Google to see what it looks like, holy fuck, it's like BMW are trying to kill sales.

Nathan wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:40 pm

Mito Man wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:33 am
Every car is wearing winter tyres.

Are they all skidding around on the cobbled roads like in Prague?

Wheel spin very common in Verona as some of the streets in the old town are polished marble. Also made it hard to walk when wet.

I saw a proper grimy daily driver looking 959 in Knightsbridge at lunch time, didn’t get a chance to picture it as it went past too quickly. Don’t think it looked very nice in white though.
Also walked past yet another Defender come James Bond abortion but it has a really special plate

Yes that’s a UK plate merged with Austrian one... Jesus wept.

I followed this today near Bradford. Dive planes/ canards on the rear. Wow!

He could replace Adrian Newey with that level of aerodynamic design.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:15 pm He could replace Adrian Newey with that level of aerodynamic design.

Got to love stick on tat!

McSwede wrote: Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:02 pm I followed this today near Bradford. Dive planes/ canards on the rear. Wow!

Yeah, that's not a shock. Also a whole load of modified S3s around these parts with phat exhausts and popcorn maps that like to drive past my house at 60mph...

Beany wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:19 pm Also a whole load of modified S3s around these parts with phat exhausts and popcorn maps that like to drive past my house at 60mph...

I was saying to someone about how this is a new background noise to every town/city now.

Nathan wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:49 pm

Beany wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:19 pm Also a whole load of modified S3s around these parts with phat exhausts and popcorn maps that like to drive past my house at 60mph...

I was saying to someone about how this is a new background noise to every town/city now.

Cheap to lease thugs car.

Golf Rs are also quite common, but not as common as the S3s.

Just remembered the winter before last watching someone in an S3 trying to do donuts in a snowy car park, and just understeering in a circle for the most part.

Beany wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:51 pm

Nathan wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:49 pm

Beany wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:19 pm Also a whole load of modified S3s around these parts with phat exhausts and popcorn maps that like to drive past my house at 60mph...

I was saying to someone about how this is a new background noise to every town/city now.

Cheap to lease thugs car.

Golf Rs are also quite common, but not as common as the S3s.

I'd say the ones you see driven badly are owned but half of them are ringers or Cat S cars rebuilt with hooky parts

Minty 930 Turbo and an "Aston Martin" Cygnet spotted at the weekend.

Poor chap is probably off to get food poisoning at Heston’s place