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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?

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.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:00 pm 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)

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

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.

Spotted on a Reddit post in UKCarTalk:

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

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

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

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

mik wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:35 pm 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

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:

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.

Not convinced on the legality of that plate!

mik wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:27 am 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.

What the fuck is that garbage?

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

The number plate looks awful

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