Here's what I saw today, mark 3 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

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McLarens...

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New Cayenne



New GT2 RS



Couple of Bentleys...





And the new Bentley Continental GT- looks better in the metal than in my rubbish photo





So, what do you do when you're a footballer/unlicenced pharmaceutical wholesaler when your Bentley Bentayga isn't powerful or ugly enough? You give it to Startech to mod it to 700+ bhp and make it look even more tacky than stock

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The site is huge. In one part they had set up a little test track to demonstrate autonomous braking where test dummies "walked" out in front of you, as well as a drag race between an e-golf and a Golf Gti from 0-50kph, which the e-golf won.



The 4x4 test track was back this year- pro drivers scaring the bejaysus out of people by showing them what these cars are capable of doing off-road, not that too many will ever need to find out.

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Jaguar i-Pace concept



Jaguar E-Pace. It's quite a small car- looks better than an Audi Q3 though.



Range Rover Sport SVO



Ferrari

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Kia had their new Stinger on show- fast saloon that generated a lot of attention on the stand and to my eyes doesn't look half bad. That name though... it's crying out for a magazine or newspaper to take it for a lap around the Nurburgring- just for the headline alone:)



Ford had a new Fiesta ST to show off



But the best thing on their stand was the Lego model of the GT40



This is the new VW Tiguan Allspace. It's a slightly longer Tiguan with a 7 seat option, but a much smaller footprint than a Touareg/Q7 etc. Looks quite good too.



Skoda version is the Karoq, but thats strictly a 5 seater



Lots of hot hatches on display:

Fast Hyundai (277hp)



Fast Golf (60.5 grand in Germany though!) Golf R Performance, with an Akrapovic exhaust, drilled front discs, speed limiter removed and some carbon bits. Really lovely piece of kit, but 60 grand though...



Fast Megane- the new RS



And a fast Opel- the Astra OPC

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This is an Aspark Owl. I'd never heard of it either. Japanese, all electric, promising 0-60mph in 2 seconds, production starting 2019... fingers crossed. It does look cool though.





And on to BMW, who had a massive stand with indoor track, theatre and loads of cars.

New M5 - the carbon roof looks the business



Vision E concept



New X7 Concept



Stunning new 8 series concept- if I could take one car home from the show this would be it:





The Z4 Concept looked fantastic too

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Finally, a couple of new Lexus and a really neat idea from Opel.

LS Saloon



LC Coupe (this is almost as big as the saloon!)


And the Opel bike carrier on the Adam:

SmartinMartin

First time I've seen one of these here. Nice sound.

MuddyDog

Saw a Civic Type R with French plates on the M11 southbound yesterday around 4pm. It was the 2016 version with the quad pipes in white. https://tinyurl.com/y84t89lw

ION08

Saw a 172 Tesla Model X charging at the Blanchardstown Shopping centre yesterday around 7 pm

Swarms of people around it and I was driving so I couldn't get a snap.

Horrendous looking thing could think of better cars to be spending that kind of dough on. (subjective of course)

ELM327

ION08 wrote: »

Saw a 172 Tesla Model X charging at the Blanchardstown Shopping centre yesterday around 7 pm

Swarms of people around it and I was driving so I couldn't get a snap.

Horrendous looking thing could think of better cars to be spending that kind of dough on. (subjective of course)

If it was either a white one on irish 172 plates or a blue one on UK plates it's a regular around there.

I despise the model X, looks like a bloated model s. Much prefer the S myself

bennyx_o

I've seen a blue one around the Malahide road a couple of times, not the worst looking car IMO

ION08

ELM327 wrote: »

If it was either a white one on irish 172 plates or a blue one on UK plates it's a regular around there.

I despise the model X, looks like a bloated model s. Much prefer the S myself

Yes on 172 D plates, it was either white or a very light silver so I reckon we're talking about the same one

Mitch Buchannon

Spotted this is Swords on Saturday. Nice Reg on it !

goochy

Spotted a 151ww outlander phev charging in cork , they sell loads in uk but rare here,.

Vicxas

Seen a '10 DBS Volante knocking around Navan this morning, couldn't get a pic as there was a squad car behind me

R.O.R

Few from Dunboyne Festival of Speed Yesterday - first time I've been and would highly recommend it for next year if you've never been before.

goochy

glad to see that 93D nsx still in country , remember lambe and o connor and des Cullen both had it for sale in 90s

PrettyBoy

I saw that NSX in Rathfarnham today followed 30 seconds later by a red Ferrari F355, hadn't seen either on the road in a long time - made my day.

Duke O Smiley

I just saw a white 171 Ford F250 (presume it's a 250) in Killester. Why doesn't the Ranger look anything like that!?

goochy

not a fan of the car but saw a Bentley conti. GT speed in Youghal with interesting reg. W12 RBB (W12 ENGINED ROLLS BENTLEY)

goochy

Saw black Dodge Hemi 05C pick up in Cork at weekend - was crossing the street and stopped to let him go - he waved and I made a gesture for him to give it loads - he put the foot to the floor - sounded great - cool guy who ever you are .

ILikeBoats

goochy wrote: »

I made a gesture for him to give it loads

What would this gesture look like? (For future use!)

goochy

I normally do the motion of a wheel turning with my arm !

Big Nasty

goochy wrote: »

I normally do the motion of a wheel turning with my arm !

You do the pulling down on string motion when you see trucks too? :P

goochy

No , just wanted to here that hemi V8 at full blast !

MetzgerMeister

Big Nasty wrote: »

You do the pulling down on string motion when you see trucks too? :P

I know you do be pulling on something when you see a big truck pass by :pac:

Brian_Zeluz

Something a bit out of the ordinary on Sunday, Banger Racing in Essex.





Full album here.

cros13

goochy wrote: »

Spotted a 151ww outlander phev charging in cork , they sell loads in uk but rare here,.

That's 'cause in the UK the PHEV was free of BIK for company cars and the PHEV started at the same price as the diesel.
Mitsubishi Ireland decided there would be no demand for that here and brought the PHEV in with a base price €15k above the base diesel.

They can be imported used for a song. A mid-spec 141 PHEV attracts less than €2k of VRT and gets taxed at €170. Good cars for towing too.

goochy

the one I saw was bought from frank keanes - 151ww 18xx - not sure what reg nos. are in ww but could have been import.