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

MetzgerMeister

beertons wrote: »

Forgive me now, but what is it?

Alpine A110

Seth Brundle

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Alpine A110

...a glorified Renault

MetzgerMeister

Seth Brundle wrote: »

...a glorified Renault

Not anymore. It used be Renault Alpine but as far as I know they're a separate company now and the A110, while based on an old design was built from the ground up to be what it is.

Seth Brundle

...but it says so on Wikipedia...

Based on an all-aluminium construction, the A110 is powered by a 1.8-litre turbocharged gasoline direct injection 4 valves per cylinder inline-four engine mated to 7-speed dual clutch automatic transmission manufactured by Getrag. Developed by Renault–Nissan and reworked by Alpine engineers, the engine has an output of 252 PS (185 kW; 249 hp) at 6,000 rpm and 320 N⋅m (236 lb⋅ft) of torque at 2,000–5,000 rpm. According to Alpine, the A110 can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62 mph) in 4.5 seconds, and has an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph).[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_A110_(2017)
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(automobile)#Present for the Alpine company as it has been recently

Seth Brundle

OSI wrote: »

Because it has a Renault designed engine? Most Mercs sold in Ireland are glorified Renaults and a decent chunk of BMWs are Peugeots by your standards then.

You obviously didn't read my second link.
Alpine is owned by Renault.
https://group.renault.com/en/our-company/our-brands/alpine/

jozi

Regardless of who made what, that's a nice spot. I've heard they are a great little motor and we need more of that kind

beertons

Yeah, I like it.

Parapara2017

Heard this coming, flew past and I had to resist the urge to cut across I to the other Lane to follow it. Some roar off it, Aventador I think?



Haven't seen it around before, UK plates BU something.

Judging by the noises I heard outside a while ago I reckon it's a new addition / visitor to the country hopefully to stay.

There's a UK plated very new Aston Martin I've seen two or three times around the area now as well, put a pic of it up a few pages back.

26000 Elephants

.... a glorified Skoda?





(I'll get my coat)

PrettyBoy

Parapara2017 wrote: »

Heard this coming, flew past and I had to resist the urge to cut across I to the other Lane to follow it. Some roar off it, Aventador I think?

Haven't seen it around before, UK plates BU something.

Yeah Aventador S, that one's been here for a year or two.

elperello

opus wrote: »

Fairly old looking Renault spotted in Berlin recently.

That's a rare spot.
Rare to see Renault 10.

SmartinMartin

Haven't seen one of these before, electric awd I think:

Parapara2017

Is there a reason for such an ugly rear on the ipace? I like the f pace a lot but jaysus the rear end of that ipace is like they just gave up when they got to it.

Looks like the box shaped cars you'd draw in primary school

MetzgerMeister

That Jag is a glorified Tata







:pac:

Big Nasty

Parapara2017 wrote: »

Is there a reason for such an ugly rear on the ipace? I like the f pace a lot but jaysus the rear end of that ipace is like they just gave up when they got to it.

Looks like the box shaped cars you'd draw in primary school

Most every electric car is fugly IMO

jozi

Parapara2017 wrote: »

Is there a reason for such an ugly rear on the ipace? I like the f pace a lot but jaysus the rear end of that ipace is like they just gave up when they got to it.

Looks like the box shaped cars you'd draw in primary school

It's a nice car... until you get to the rear end of it where it's a bit of a let down.

MetzgerMeister

Is it possible that the batteries were taking up a lot of room and designing the boot like that allows for more space?

tossy

Back of it looks like an Armoured personnel carrier

inforfun

The arse of that jag almost makes the arse of a Pontiac Azteca look nice.
Almost

26000 Elephants

I guess when you have to stretch the wheelbase to fit in all the batteries, then fit a big motor over the rear axle a and then still need to have room in the boot, you end up with a rear with the same deadrise as a barge.

Parapara2017

Haven't seen this before


Of course proceeded to do a u turn through a red light on the N11...

Also just googled how much these go for... £115,000+ jayyysus

ofcork

There was a UK reg silver one parked on Patrick st yesterday.

Skylinehead

It's old Merc time:







Actually needs two spaces

inforfun

elperello

Two from the UK.
A nice Aston Martin and a 5 litre Mustang.

SmartinMartin

Nice private plates too. Wonder who Bisto is.

jozi

Spotted a black AMG SLS (I think) today, reg was either DC60 or 60DC

26000 Elephants

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Nice private plates too. Wonder who Bisto is.

Making plenty of gravy anyway, whoever he is.

elperello

26000 Elephants wrote: »

Making plenty of gravy anyway, whoever he is.

That V8 is definitely full fat and very tasty

vandriver

A1983 Ford Granada