Car Spotting: What You Saw Recently!

[Penfold]

You're good with your classics, I had no idea what it was :D

[Haffi_Turbo]

1350whp supra

 

 

camaro with 632 scott shafiroff engine and nos

 

 

my dads friend house, classy as allways

 

and eclipse dynoed 850whp, guy spent around 50.000$ to the engine, and impreza has around 600hp

 

[TDUZoqqer]

Here is the topspot of my life!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSblUuv4ks

 

Have fun :)

[Penfold]

Great video! That's a lot of crazy carspotters :D

[TDUZoqqer]

yea there were 7 crazy chickens which ran after 1.6 million euros :)

 

and you may see a Mansory Rolls Ghost at the beginning at the background :)

[Mb]

Thanx for ruining the image of car spotters. :rolleyes:

Also in Holland, 12/13 year old kids run after cars, stand in the middle of an intersection etc. People in certain cities hate car spotters now, ridiculous.

 

Combo.

[GTAMADDOG]

To be fair I'd hate anyone taking a photo of me in my car anywhere unless I'd already agreed to it before they got their camera out.

 

Obviously, it's their free-will to take photos if I did have a car which was a bit more extravogant than a Peugeot as long as I wasn't in it, and they blocked the number-plates out.

 

I guess most 'spotters' are just lucky for the most part that an owner hasn't got out of their car and asked for the photo to be deleted, or at least be seen.

[t.]

On the few occasions that I've encountered owners they've always been nice.

[KoenigseggBG]

The first and the only SSC Ultimate Aero in Bulgaria is in our town.

 

http://www.tuning.bg/forum/download/file.php?id=295520&mode=view

 

:drool:

[tdu66]

Holland is a relatively bad country for spotting, cuz, like Mb said, there are hundreds of 12 year olds who risk their lives for a Porsche :(

 

@ Mb, Nice pic!

[pascallll]

Thanx for ruining the image of car spotters. :rolleyes:

Also in Holland, 12/13 year old kids run after cars, stand in the middle of an intersection etc.

:lol: I'm such a 13 year old kid.

[TDUZoqqer]

who said everyone 12/13 y.o. is like this?

[The Queen]

who said everyone 12/13 y.o. is like this?

 

He's talking about the ones who do that and are and he's referring to there being a lot of them. I actually agree with him and I keep my spotting to a minimum. Sure I used to stand at roundabouts and chase after cars but then I realised how annoying it was for the drivers of the cars and how stupid I looked, so I stopped it. Now I occasionally go place to see cars but not nearly as much as I used to. It's not "cool" at all, it's just silly because all you really do is annoy the driver and not let him know you're interested.

 

But saying that, I have never been right next to a moving supercar shoving my camera up to it's hood to see the badge and all that. That's just far too much and imo it's absolutely stupid and it makes you look like the bloody Paparazzi, which is not a good thing... :rolleyes:

[t.]

Here is the topspot of my life!

 

-snip-

 

Have fun :)

It's a great spot but sorry, that kind of spotting doesn't interest me. It's more like harassment than spotting and resembles the kind of paparazzi pandemonium you'd expect a celebrity caught up in a sex scandal to receive when they walk through town.

 

There's no photographic quality to it, it's just snap shots.

[Mb]

Same as kids in London running after an effin' Bentley. It's more common then a damn VW Golf ffs :lol:

[The Queen]

It's a great spot but sorry, that kind of spotting doesn't interest me. It's more like harassment than spotting and resembles the kind of paparazzi pandemonium you'd expect a celebrity caught up in a sex scandal to receive when they walk through town.

 

There's no photographic quality to it, it's just snap shots.

 

I completely agree! They are just snapshots, it's like they were taken on a phone and then a name is just slapped on them anywhere.

 

Zoqqer, if you are going to go to all that bother, at least buy a good camera, learn how to use it and take some good shots. Then you can post them up and show them off. ;)

[zo6dude]

To be fair I'd hate anyone taking a photo of me in my car anywhere unless I'd already agreed to it before they got their camera out.

 

Obviously, it's their free-will to take photos if I did have a car which was a bit more extravogant than a Peugeot as long as I wasn't in it, and they blocked the number-plates out.

 

I guess most 'spotters' are just lucky for the most part that an owner hasn't got out of their car and asked for the photo to be deleted, or at least be seen.

I don't chase cars, but I have to disagree with you mate, first off, if that person doesn't like the attention, then drive a minivan or a compact car and second whats the big deal about number plates? I never really understood why people don't like them on the internet.

[The Queen]

I don't chase cars, but I have to disagree with you mate, first off, if that person doesn't like the attention, then drive a minivan or a compact car and second whats the big deal about number plates? I never really understood why people don't like them on the internet.

 

I used to think this but then I realised. Maybe they don't want to drive a normal car because they are able to afford nice cars? Not everyone wants that kind of attention and that is why many don't drive nice cars if they don't want the attention because it's inevitable in some cases as soon as you appear on the road in something such as a supercar.

 

The "numberplates" thing I used to agree with you however I realised that it's a very simplistic view on things. Anyway reason is that it could easilly increase the likelihood of the car being stolen especially as many people explain where they saw the car and if these are combined together, it doesn't take Einstein to work that out. Also many people don't like their numberplates shown on the net and it's really down to them whether it should be shown or not, not the person taking the shot.

 

[rant]

 

I mean if I was driving something like a Zonda (I know it will never happen but...) I wouldn't mind the slightest with people taking photos of it, it's really what people should do imo and that's fine.

 

However if I was driving through a city just minding my own business and suddenly out of the blue, I appear to be surrounded by a crew of "13 year old kids" who are standing in front of me and pushing camera's in my face, then that's the point where I would get angry because you shouldn't have to suffer that kind of harassment even if you are in a supercar. Why can't you just stand a certain distance away? You don't have to be up at the drivers door about to knock on his bloody window because you can still take great shots from a distance especially panning shots. You just need a decent camera.

 

It's fair enough if the car is parked, I will admit that, but if the car is moving and theres someone inside or a car is stuck in traffic then there's really no need to be that close. [/rant]

[CarMadMike]

I seen a rather nice Austin Seven today, perfect condition :)

 

Nothing special though.

[zo6dude]

@ Queen: Well put:)

[Camel]

I couldn't really agree more than what The Queen said. I know I'd be pissed if somebody was running around my car with a camera like a school kid but wouldn't mind at all if they were stood on the pavement and took one or two photos like normal people.

[ScoobSTi]

I can never get pics but trust me I saw these two!

 

Ferrari F430 Spider

Aston Martin DB9

 

I spotted the 430 from a block away because in NYC, bright red or citrus-y colored cars are usually exotics. DB9 was hidden behind some trees, it was black/dark green.

[T0M722]

I agree with all these points. Being harassed like in the video isn't very nice. I guess it depends on the person. Maybe some people just love being raped by 12/13 year old children and getting all the attention. :rolleyes:

[dredgy]

I couldn't really agree more than what The Queen said. I know I'd be pissed if somebody was running around my car with a camera like a school kid but wouldn't mind at all if they were stood on the pavement and took one or two photos like normal people.

 

Here driving an expensive car is pretty much a deathwish. This town is a mix of young people who love cars and older people who are very anti-progress and rather environmental, and want all cars dead. Plenty of stories of carspotting which irritate the drivers, it's why I never take pictures of cars when someone are in it. American cars are always a horrible target here, for both teenage car spotters and anti-development wackos (all the expensive cars here are generally driven by developers or construction magnates or whatnot).

 

I've beared witness to a few incidents:

A Corvette C1 Convertible was mobbed by about ten teenage boys with cameras on main street, grinding traffic to a halt unti security from a nearby shopped moved them on.

 

My neighbour drove me to the shops a few months back to get a new battery for my Camry and after leaving his Viper alone in the car park for about 10 minutes, it was surrounded by teenagers and one of them had climbed into the drivers seat for a photo opportunity.

 

When the Dodge Dealership opened here, they had to hire security to stop people going in for photographs of the cars. Which was strange since they never sold Vipers or any other decent car. Having a similar problem with the new Porsche Dealership at the moment, though no one's actually game enough to buy a 911 or Cayman, so the streets are awash with new Cayenne's.

 

And my mates Hummer H2, he parked that at the shops and had the sides beaten with a golf club and one of the windows knocked out. Nothing stolen though.

 

Plenty of stories I've heard about but not witnessed in any way including people spray painting a 370Z...letting down the tires of Audi R8's was qutie popular here for a bit, but they've stopped selling R8's at the local dealership now and everyone who had one has either moved or sold theirs.

[cis4care]

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Geez, those kids should be tied up and kept in the basement. That's just out of control.

 

But really, it's true, Latvia's no better when it comes to mobbing expensive exotics. There's literally 50 4th graders pushing each other out of the way to take a photo of a Lamborghini with their camera phones. Same goes for ruining cars. Nobody dares to drive an AM anymore, because they get stripped from their headlamps, wheels, mirrors etc., and I think this has happened to almost every AM here. And we only have like 5. And now all the Bentleys are taking all the crap. Just park it in the wrong spot and it's done for. The jealousy never settles.

 

And nobody takes kindly to car spotters over here, as I'm not one of them, it doesn't affect me, but the way other people (not the drivers) treat them here is a little too hard.