Exotic or rare vehicle sightings

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Seems like this is the only hybrid Compass in my hometown.

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'63 Chevrolet Alvorada

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Spotted this beauty the same day I spotted the Chevrolet Alvorada

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A DeTomaso Mangusta in the wild is definitely something special. I had a similar moment when I saw a Bugatti EB110 cruising down the highway—was so stunned I almost forgot to take a photo. Car culture is changing fast, and it’s sad to see museums and drag strips disappearing. There’s nothing like seeing these machines in person.

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Spotted this beauty last year in Florianópolis.

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[kach22i]

Originally Posted by ChopStix

Saw this at a local pub restaurant.

I spotted a blue McLaren a couple of weeks ago on the same half mile stretch of road on 7 Mile Road in Novi MI that I've frequently seen a white BMW i8 and an orange Lotus Evora.

In other news..............................

Published Dec 31, 2024
McLaren finalizes company's sale to Abu Dhabi investment firm
It was only last March that the storied British marque was acquired by a wealth fund in Bahrain, which has now sold it again
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industr...-cyvn-holdings

Who gets the last laugh buying a company known for producing internal combust engine cars being forced by the EU to go full electric by 2035?

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Originally Posted by kach22i

Who gets the last laugh buying a company known for producing internal combust engine cars being forced by the EU to go full electric by 2035?

EU CO2 fleet averages really don't apply to a company like McLaren. You can sell what you like as long as you are willing to pay the fines. (95 Euro per g/km CO2)

When your vehicles cost 200K euro and up a 30K euro fine can just be rolled into the cost of doing business.

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Even if some unrealistic emissions target gets implemented, most likely the ICE will still have a long life ahead. BTW maybe with the fines applied to automakers, makes me wonder if it would eventually come to the point that buying replacement parts to assemble a car at home become cheaper...

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Originally Posted by JSH

EU CO2 fleet averages really don't apply to a company like McLaren. You can sell what you like as long as you are willing to pay the fines. (95 Euro per g/km CO2)

When your vehicles cost 200K euro and up a 30K euro fine can just be rolled into the cost of doing business.

Thanks, I did not know that.

Makes the direction Jaguar has taken even more perplexing.

Back on topic; Last summer I was in a small town with my wife, we sitting outside a Dairy Queen eating ice cream when I looked down the block to see a car that I wasn't sure what it was.

I finished my sundae and asked my wife if she didn't mine if I left for a few minutes to check it out (she eats slow).

From a distance looking at the front of this all black colored car I thought maybe this was a new model Audi.

It says "R" on it somewhere, but it still does not click.

I look at the side, it starts to look familiar, when I see the rear end it hits me like a brick to the head it's a Jaguar F-Type hardtop coupe.

It's the face lifted +2021 Jaguar F-Type (R) to be exact, way different headlights and grille that changes the overall look.

I looked it up when I got home, hadn't realized they face lifted it.

I had only seen one F-Type up close about 12 years ago when they first came out, it was a convertible, talked to the owner for a bit a very nice older woman.

And had only seen a coupe once while stuck in traffic a few years ago, and only from behind.

I have seen more Ferrari's, McLaren's, i8's, R8's and Lotus Evora's on the street than Jaguar F-Types when I stop to think about it.