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Here's what I saw today, mark 4 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,903 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    @ Marcinek_55
    beautiful shots of the alfa
    keep it up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,388 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Marcinek always makes me happy when he posts.

    How has lockdown affected your car spotting?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭tc20


    My first time seeing a Taycan in the wild - probably the same for the guy on the bike :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    I've seen a dark blue one local to me a few times. I think the owner lives in the same compound as me. They are painfully ugly in pictures yet in real life are stunning. Dark colours seem to suit them best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,686 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    tc20 wrote: »
    My first time seeing a Taycan in the wild - probably the same for the guy on the bike :)

    He was probably wondering what the noise was - at low speed they do have an unusual hum to them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭jozi


    tc20 wrote: »
    My first time seeing a Taycan in the wild - probably the same for the guy on the bike :)

    I spotted this last weekend when pulling out of the junction at Lidl.

    I think it's a pretty serious looking machine, better looking than some of the other electric cars out


  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭hellyeah


    Saw this today. Dodge charger. Animal of a car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,271 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    That's a Challenger rather than Charger. Still an awesome machine though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭hellyeah


    My bad. Got the first part right. ðŸ˜


  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭hellyeah


    Couple more pics of dodge.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,388 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Thats gorgeous, wonder how much it is to tax


  • Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Austmcc


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Thats gorgeous, wonder how much it is to tax

    Looks like it could be this one. Can't be too many around

    https://touch.adverts.ie/car/dodge/other-dodge/2012-dodge-challenger-r-t-5-7-v8/12035982

    Talking 2400 a year to tax if you use that reg on the motor tax site, it is for a 5.7L V8 though so...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    Those 5.7 hemi aren't near as fast as you'd expect. I've one in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and there is nothing special about it.

    Also MOPAR = terrible reliability.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Those 5.7 hemi aren't near as fast as you'd expect. I've one in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and there is nothing special about it.

    Also MOPAR = terrible reliability.

    The interior in the first-gen Challenger is terrible too.

    Really, really, bad. Looks and feels really cheap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    Tzardine wrote: »
    The interior in the first-gen Challenger is terrible too.

    Really, really, bad. Looks and feels really cheap.

    Is it not for all American cars?

    I watch a show where some guys buy American cars and they always remind that the interior is inferior to European cars. And you can see the plastic is cheap looking on most if not all of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    wonski wrote: »
    Is it not for all American cars?

    I watch a show where some guys buy American cars and they always remind that the interior is inferior to European cars. And you can see the plastic is cheap looking on most if not all of them.

    Yeah the interiors were all pretty bad in that era, but the Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge stuff were the worst, closely followed by the GM products. Ford was the best of the worst.

    I was selling Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge vehicles in the US from 2007-2009 so saw them all first hand. They felt bad back then, get in one today and its so bad its funny.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Marcinek_55


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Marcinek always makes me happy when he posts.

    How has lockdown affected your car spotting?

    Thank you.

    All virus affect my not only spotting but whole life. I never stopped working, even for one day but then i split with the girl, left me seeing my daughter weekends only and please dont feel sorry for that. When i finally got over it, I feel happier withour her (ex gfm not daughter) and my spotting not exist at all. I back where I start. Spotting in town. Walking around looking for some nice cars to take photos of but it's a lot different now than it was 15 years ago. No shows and no abroad trips made it from 55.000 photos of nice cars in 2019 to 750 photos in 2020 and so far 400 in 2021. I was trying to get some photoshoot with very little success but i keep trying and hopefully something will work for me but we'll see. But I will not give up photographing cars, that will never happen.

    Sorry for late answer but I didn't want to post without photos so here is what I saw today with picture of only one car:

    Went for a little spin with my daughter town centre, Howth and Malahide. Saw Alfa Romeo Giulia QV (MH reg), BMW 1M (love those cars), M4 x2 and M3 e92 on english reg heading towards tunnel. on the way back from Malahides spotted this:
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  • Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭cullow123


    I have spotted these cars over the last few months:

    Mercedes-Benz SLC450:
    [IMG][/img]lrvL6NEm.jpg

    Jeep Hemi:
    [IMG][/img]lfQdBPJm.jpg

    Lotus Elise:
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    Ferrari 812 GTS:
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    Audi RS5:
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    Mercedes-Mclaren SLR:
    [IMG][/img]qxfAxjdm.jpg

    Ferrari Testarossa:
    [IMG][/img]SpVf1Com.jpg

    Porsche Taycan:
    [IMG][/img]7JFrarLm.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,271 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Yeah but they are cheap in the US but you get a lot of bang for your buck. 55k gets you a supercharged 710bhp RWD coupe. Nothing close in the that power/price range comes close. A BMW M3 has 500bhp and starts at 73k in the US and for that you probably get windy windows and a tape deck

    Yeah you can also get them in different variants and with performance packs such as SRT Hellcat, Scat Pack, wide body Red Eye, etc. These cars can come with over 800bhp for well under 90k USD. These cars are designed for the quarter mile drag strip mainly so soft touch interior plastics or corners are not priority for Americans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    Nice longroof e36 on saturday, didn't seem like a 6 pot but was loud enough to be heard over my bunch of bananas.

    e36wag.jpg


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,117 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Cheensbo wrote: »
    heard over my bunch of bananas.

    LOL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Cheensbo


    beertons wrote: »
    LOL

    Sorry, should have clarified - Photo taken from a smiley face transit, lucky to hear yourself scream in it at motorway speed...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭AMGer


    cullow123 wrote: »
    I have spotted these cars over the last few months:

    That 812 GTS is unreal. +€600k? Anyone know?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Marcinek_55


    I saw this today. I mean I saw it many times before but tday it was finally parked in sun:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,272 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    AMGer wrote: »
    That 812 GTS is unreal. +€600k? Anyone know?

    €580k OTR, or so I'm told

    €5,000 pcm PCP @ 3.9% ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    €580k OTR, or so I'm told

    €5,000 pcm PCP @ 3.9% ;)

    And that's likely without the eye watering price of Ferrari options.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭Greg81


    I found old sd card with photos that I never posted here.

    London 2017/2018 good old times :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Great pictures. I actually spent a lot of time being driven around London in one of the cars in the pictures.














    *It was one of the black cabs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,272 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Tropheus wrote: »
    And that's likely without the eye watering price of Ferrari options.

    No, I heard from a reputable source that 580k is the actual price of his car as delivered. I haven't a clue what extras may have been specced within that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,426 ✭✭✭✭blade1


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