^^ I've seen that lambo before

and in the same parking lot



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9/9/2008 4:58:16 PM

Is a testarossa still an exotic...cause i see one about 2x daily now...
i'd really like to own one... i know they're not worth much but there is something cool about a flat 12

9/9/2008 4:59:11 PM

A damn column was in the way. Couldn't get an angle.

But yes...it is what you think:



[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 10:28 PM. Reason : ]

9/10/2008 10:27:55 PM

^^absolutely. Every Ferrari is, even the lowly Mondial.

^nice, where was that taken? I never saw one of those when living in NYC. Now that I'm back in NC I think it'll be some time indeed before I do, lol

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 10:40 PM. Reason : k]

9/10/2008 10:37:53 PM

Its at Bentley Gold Coast in Chicago isn't it? That is the only Bentley dealership that has the word coast in it. It can be yours for $1,900,000.00

I saw an really old exotic the other day, the original M6 or M635Ci as some call it. It was red and parked in front of Burlington Labs on Stintson Dr.

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9/10/2008 11:50:59 PM

^^I've seen a couple of them up here, but not yet one on the road

9/10/2008 11:53:06 PM

^^ Ding ding. I was in Chicago on business. Was walking down the street when suddenly I felt...a disturbance in the force. I was talking to my co-workers and stopped midsentence. I very slowly turned to my left, and there it was. Not two feet from the window. If the glass weren't there, I could have reached out and touched it.

I have now seen a Veyron and an Enzo in person. I think my life is complete as a man or something, isn't it?

9/11/2008 11:00:30 AM

In Latta Pavillion's parking deck... (dilworth, Charlotte)


[Edited on September 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM. Reason : .]

9/11/2008 11:14:38 AM

yellow lamborghini gallardo yesterday about 4 PM in atlantic station, atlanta, ga

9/11/2008 12:06:33 PM

Vegas!

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9/11/2008 12:22:21 PM

Vegas shouldn't count, I saw over 20 Ferraris in 2 days in Vegas. Everything from Testorossas to brand new F430s pulling out of the Wynn Casino/Exotic Dealership. The only real reason to count Vegas would be for something extremely rare like an F40/50/Enzo or Maserati MC12 on the road. There was one in the Wynn dealership when I was there.

Are there any Mercedes 65s in the area? The only one I have ever seen is an S65 on I-40 coming here from Wilmington. Needless to say, I beat it here because it had to stop for gas.

9/11/2008 1:53:13 PM

It was actually Boulder City, but thats close enough!

9/11/2008 1:58:34 PM

finally saw the R8. very nice. and yes, there are 65s around, there is a black S65 in cameron village from time to time.

9/11/2008 2:21:16 PM

there is a place you can rent "exotics" on the em effing strip.... i rented a viper with pops for a day when i was there

9/11/2008 3:33:01 PM

There's plenty of places in Vegas to rent exotics. When I was out there a few years ago I considered it, then decided to use the money on something else. Though it'd be fun to take one out of the city and do some canyon runs

9/11/2008 4:22:36 PM

^ something else, huh?

Quote :

"I have now seen a Veyron and an Enzo in person. I think my life is complete as a man or something, isn't it?"

pretty much... but it would be cool to be able to see the top [in production] performing supercar of each year for the past 20 years.

Jaguar XJ220
McLaren F1
Ferrari F40
Ferrari F50
Koeniggsegg
Zonda

are some.

9/11/2008 5:18:39 PM

^Of those cars I've seen the XJ220, the F40 and the F50. I'd love to see the others. As far as the Enzo it'd be cool but I don't care that much. Personally I think its a hideous car

9/11/2008 5:46:00 PM

I've also seen an F40 and F50, not the others tho

9/11/2008 8:10:48 PM

Quote :

"there is a place you can rent "exotics" on the em effing strip.... i rented a viper with pops for a day when i was there"

Actually there are at least 5 places. And if you can get them to bid against each other. We haggled down on the Ferrari, and next time will be taking our a Gallardo because we know how much less they will take for it.

9/11/2008 8:29:14 PM

^ What did it end up costing? I consider it every time I'm in Vegas but never end up stopping.


^^^^ I've seen them all in person and all but the F1 on the road. They were all in Vegas except the XJ220 was in Lake Tahoe many years ago. I think they were SEMA display cars since there were some very similar inside (2 years ago I think?). Saw an F50 in Raleigh when I was there during some kind of Ferrari "meet" or something (about 20 Ferraris all rolling together somewhere). I'm always amazed at how tiny supercars are when I see them in person. They just always seem bigger in pictures.

9/11/2008 8:54:33 PM

This morning at Starbucks on Harrison/Weston - Noble M12-GTO3R:

9/12/2008 10:39:07 AM

in high school we rented Vipers from Rent-A Vette in Vegas, off of Paradise...3 of us guys got them to match out Tuxedos.

cost was 500$ a day, 500$ deposit and 1$ a mile charge.

Luckly out parents "rented" them and it was fun!

9/12/2008 12:19:03 PM

^^Sweet! Those cars are fast as shit.

9/12/2008 1:22:27 PM

Quote :

"I saw an really old exotic the other day, the original M6 or M635Ci as some call it. It was red and parked in front of Burlington Labs on Stintson Dr."

Debatable in its exotic-ness, but I do love the E24 M6's. Possibly my favorite car of the 80's. I think that belongs to Dr. Roberts in MAE, though he doesn't drive it to campus all that often. He's the same guy who has the ultra-clean red E28 535i.

9/12/2008 3:31:47 PM

Red Maserati Gransport Coupe today at the hooters on Wake Forest Rd. Guy pulled out heading towards the beltline and broke it all kinds of crazy sideways for a couple hundred feet, damn lucky he didn't get hit.

Fuck not having a cell phone camera....

9/14/2008 11:10:31 PM

Saw a Aston Martin DB9 today at Falls of Nuese & 540.



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9/19/2008 3:14:21 PM

Quote :

"Debatable in its exotic-ness, but I do love the E24 M6's. Possibly my favorite car of the 80's. I think that belongs to Dr. Roberts in MAE, though he doesn't drive it to campus all that often. He's the same guy who has the ultra-clean red E28 535i"

I drooled over that 535i my entire undergrad career.

9/19/2008 3:36:59 PM

i saw a different DB9 while at the post office in Cary at lunch today

silver hardtop, probably belonged to the tall guy in scrubs inside..

engine was running with the keys in the ignition...




braver than i am

9/19/2008 6:45:26 PM

saw an orange with black 997 gt3-rs on glenwood today. was pretty much the hotness.

9/19/2008 11:30:02 PM

Outside the N-Club downtown Greensboro

9/20/2008 9:39:54 AM

was at the ducati dealership this afternoon when a guy drove up in a GT-R. first one i've actually seen on the road. didn't take any pics because i didn't want to be that guy.

[Edited on September 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM. Reason : .]

9/20/2008 5:31:41 PM

^^I've seen one just like that pulling up to Much in downtown gboro.. the guy was young as hell, a complete douchebag with revving it up and shit for like 10 mins before finally cutting it off and going in and had an ugly fat girl with him.

i always assumed he had just rented it or something for the night but maybe not

9/20/2008 5:51:26 PM

I guess this isn't really an exotic (Although it is in the US IMO), but I saw an R32 Skyline GT-R today at Team Powersports in Garner. Some guy just drove up in it and I was like, "dude, is that a skyline?"

It was street legal, 100% real, right hand drive etc. It was not a GT-S from what I could tell btw. It was 4wd and was RB26DETT powered. I got to look it over in detail and check out what it had under the hood y0. It was quite cool to see one here, I'd only seen them in Switzerland before. The dude hadn't even removed the Japanese speed limiter yet though.

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9/20/2008 6:50:17 PM

Saw a red ACR on the belt line. (opposite direction hauling ass, so no pic But it's the same one in the pic)



Supposedly it belongs to Mike Dezmond (the guy who owns the Cary Auto Mall). He's got a Jet Stream Blue ZR1 coming to the Cary Auto Mall where he'll unveil it (also going to be his personal car).



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9/20/2008 10:13:04 PM

saw a Lambo just like the one at the top of the page in Durham on hwy. 55

9/20/2008 10:40:25 PM

city Chevrolet near me has a ZR-1

9/21/2008 12:27:40 AM

^A new one. I thought the new ZR1 hadn't been released yet.

9/21/2008 1:27:42 PM

gallardo and testarossa at the gym today in cary

9/21/2008 10:36:04 PM

I saw that ACR on Capital on Friday and today. my buddy has a E28 M5 that we take to VIR and he daily drives sometimes. Supposedly the rarest 'mass produced' car from BMW in the states.

9/21/2008 11:19:51 PM

saw a BMW Z8 friday on Davis Dr. in RTP coming out of the IBM campus

9/22/2008 10:31:30 AM

why post a pic of a car like the one you saw if its not the car that you saw??
just seems silly i know what a z8 looks like

9/22/2008 10:33:16 AM

^for the rest of the tards that lurk in the garage

9/22/2008 10:43:33 AM

I saw that black Gallardo that everyone always sees every day going through the Avent Ferry Food Lion parking lot today.

It looked just like this guys (only biggerlol):


[Edited on September 22, 2008 at 4:55 PM. Reason : .]

9/22/2008 4:53:59 PM

double post, i know

my friend just called me and asked, "are you in goldsboro today by any chance?"

i replied, "why, no, i am not."

he said "well, at [restaurant] there are two F430s and a 599 GTB."

holy crap.

9/24/2008 1:42:51 PM

bttt for a buncha cock lookers

10/29/2008 12:24:46 AM

1- hey, can we all stop complaining about posting general images of cars? I may know what a z8 looks like, but I certainly don't mind being reminded. (btw, I think I've been next to that dude in traffic, black with red interior, right? and he's black and like 55-60?) I think we can all agree that a z8 is a pretty nice thing to see under almost any conditions! Now, if a pontiac aztek somehow becomes an exotic, then maybe I'll change my mind. Of course it's cooler to see an on-the-road "see, this is literally what I saw" pic, but its not exactly like we're all using modems anymore. loading a pic of a sexy car ought not to slow your browsing much or dampen a day of wasting time posting on an "exotics" thread.

2- wow, nice catch on the GTO-3r, dmidkiff. I've only seen one Noble before, and it was only in a showroom. Good to see those are and actually being driven around and not just locked away or dedicated to track use. I'm sure most everyone knows all about noble on this forum, but here's the most recent story I've come across on their next car.

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Secret-new-cars/Search-Results/Spyshots/Noble-M600-spy-photos/, which I came across via http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/21/spy-shots-noble-m600-caught-testing-in-the-u-s/

10/29/2008 1:59:08 PM

http://www.rossioncars.com

couldn't help myself. I just love noble.

here's a link to what the noble m12 chassis has become, now that Noble sold the rights to build and sell the m12 everywhere in the world (except the UK) to 1gracing and 1gracing changed their name to Rossion. The car is now called the q1 and the spec is up to:

aluminum block ford-derived 3.0L v6 (not the newer 3.5L), twin turbo, forged internals
450hp@ 6500rpm, 390 lbft@5000rpm, and
418 hp/ tonne (metric ton, 1000 kg/ 2205 lbs; not short/north-american ton, 2000 lbs) ~equivalent to~ 5.3 lbs per hp.
"kerbweight"(sp):2417 lbs.
0-60 in 3.3
0-100 in 8.0
top speed 185

The car is still sold by the same method 1gracing sold the m12, as a component car shipped in from South Africa, assembled by Hi-Tec Automotive/Superformance, and complete LESS engine and transaxle.

also: from an '07 press statement:
"The Rossion Q1 chassis will have a base price just under $73,500 (U.S.) minus drivetrain. Owner completed cost with suggested drivetrain Base price $95,400."

pretty steep, but this is gt3-competing performance. I think I'll just watch autotrader and ebay until I see one... last couple of nobles I saw on ebay were trading hands in the 60s.... I'll just pop over there....
oh wow, there's 4 on ebay right now, all with buy-it-nows.
2006 M400, 425 hp, 2k miles, currently 1 bid @ $50k, b.i.n.=$60k, 1d 8h left
Item number: 280279647476
2005 M12 GTO-3R, 12.5k miles, currently 3 bids @ $35k, b.i.n.=$55.5k, 2d left
Item number: 110303753100
2004 M12 GTO-3R, 6k miles, currently 5 bids @ $43k, b.i.n.=$61k
Item number: 130264508412
2007 M400, 425 hp, 175.00 _mi, no bids, seems set up for "make an offer" or b.i.n. $79,900.
250314269855

So, make of that what you will as an indication of depreciation or prospects of ever owning one used. Looks like a pretty good deal. At least you wouldn't have to pony up $100k. Also, it looks like as soon as you get a new one, you have to eat $20k, and another $20k after you have any kind of mileage on it. so..... I'd wait a couple years before looking for a rossion....

I didn't like the original renderings, but the completed press car looks pretty good


[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 2:41 PM. Reason : someday I'll learn to type]

10/29/2008 2:40:43 PM

saw a black r8 on wade ave yesterday as i was heading to the vet. first time i'd ever seen one on the road.

10/29/2008 11:57:43 PM

do i win first GTR on the street in NC?
saw this last week at park and gleneagles in charlotte

11/4/2008 12:26:42 AM

^ I saw one over a month ago in Cary







[Edited on November 4, 2008 at 7:15 AM. Reason : .]

11/4/2008 7:14:08 AM