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    Posted: 17-April-2007 at 21:11
This morning on my way to work I saw a Ferreri F50. Couldn't believe it. It
was stuck in traffic on the N4 opposite the Texaco at Lucan. Roof off. Middle
aged guy with a suit and a mustache driving. UK plates. I was going into the
Texaco anyway so I got out and had a good look over at it. Really nice and
REALLY big. Never ever thought I would see one of those on the roads here.

Just got me wondering whats the most exotic car anyone has seen gracing
Irish roads?

EDIT: It was at 9:17am. Anybody else see it?

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Saw a Mercedes McLaren SLR in Denmark last summer; considering the on the road price in DK of 1.3 million Euros, they are pretty rare.

I hear there are Veyrons in this country but have not seen any...

My Dad had a friend in Denmark who had a Bugatti Type 35, went to see it once; my dad was lucky enough to get a drive in it.

I am trying to think of the most exotic I've seen here and can only think of the "regularly" exotics like A-M's, 360's, Z8's etc. I drove a Ferrari 412i once out in Dergside's neck of the woods...

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Heard Ferrari were doing something at the Mansion house today in Dublin, might have been heading in for that.

F50 is a good spot, I think the rarest I have ever seen was a Maybach in the city centre, D Reg!!
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Lovely Blue Bentley Continental Convertible at Mondello Park races Easter Sunday

Looked imposing yet neat with the top down

Des Cullen's son Michael (Beacon Hospital) has a Maserati Quattroporte look classey compared to the Bentley. I go to a meeting at the RIAC Dawson st. every 2 months. There can be some interesing RIAC member cars parked in the garage, the latest I had a good look at was a RR Camargue, big and angular typical of the era it was designed in.

 

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i have seen a couple of bently's, maseratis and one or 2 ferraris, saw a maybach last year while in hamburg, but my fav was on a school trip to paris many moons ago was a testarossa still love the look of the car.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote kbannon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-April-2007 at 22:32
There is a thread on boards (Here's what I saw today) with plenty of rarities. Bentleys I think are now too common to be regarded as special.
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That orange Lamborghini Gallardo, used to hang around Stephen's Green a couple years ago. 
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Privileged(?) as I am to marshal on the startline at the British GP - I see a number of 'exotic' cars owned by members of the BRDC, Bentleys, Merc's....etc, but last year there was a New GT40 - stupid car, a fat/high version of the proper GT40  

it included leather seats - and air-con!  I ask you, whats the point??

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well today's car was an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage on the way to my workplace this morning around Lanark in scotland...loverly mota, some lucky git in a suit driving it. {made my morning tho}
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Lucky enough to have been in Monaco last year and saw several, ones that stand out were a Gallardo Spyder, a couple of F430 Spyders and a Lambo Murciélago driving really really slowly around Casino Square...couple of guys gestured at the driver to rev the engine, which sounded amazing.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote llatsni Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17-April-2007 at 23:06
Drove to Monaco 2 years ago... that place is exotic car central. After a while you seriously start to tune out the "bog standard" ferraris & porsches etc.

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- uber modified 430 that was doing the F1 circuit continuously, mostly sideways!
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I was at the start of the 2005 Gumball, so I saw some crazy cars. Enzo, F50, F40, Countach, Diablo, Zonda, Merc CLK DTM, Farboud GT and so on. I also stayed in the same hotel as the Gumballers and I drove over. You can imagine my shock when I entered the car park, I have never seen a carpark so full of supercars.

Was in Monaco as well and I visited the Lambo dealer where they had a Murcielago Roadster, very nice. There was a SLR, 911 Turbo, in fact every expensive car you can think of was there. Such a wealthy country.

You really need to be in another county to catch a load of nice cars. Ireland is just too small to have that many, and most of them are just hidden away. My bro was in Killarney last year and stayed at the hotel where the Audi R8 was lodging as well.

Oh I had a play with the orange Diablo as well when I was in Dublin city centre. I was in the Elise. I was behind him at one point and he reved his engine, my car actually moved from the vibration.



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Saw Maclaren F1 At Bond square London

AM Vanquish surrounded by 6 Rolls Royces  used for airport pickups at the Burj al arab hotel in Dubai. They even have a guy in scuba gear to clean the fish tanks everyday.

Continental GT Clonakilty roundabout.

 

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Originally posted by thepits thepits wrote:

last year there was a New GT40 - stupid car, a fat/high version of the proper GT40  

The new one is just a GT (no 40)
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well today's car was an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage on the way to my workplace this morning around Lanark in scotland...loverly mota, some lucky git in a suit driving it. {made my morning tho}

On the way to the in-laws recently I passed a DB5 - made the trip worthwhile!
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Hu that is a tricky one as I lived in Munich so plenty off rare metal. Guess the Ascari I saw in Wales a year and a half ago. Here an Aston Martin Vantage V8 from the 80's a couple of weeks ago and an DB6 two years ago broken down in Wicklow .....

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Originally posted by BM Fan BM Fan wrote:

I think the rarest I have ever seen was a Maybach in the city centre, D Reg!!

Yeah, that's Johnny Ronan's car (developer/investor), and a rare car but a regular sight around Baggot St. and Ballsbridge. Usually double parked or on double yellows with the chauffeur either cleaning it or sitting in it ready to go round the block when the clampers show up.

In Portland a few years ago there was a Testarossa parked in front of the hotel for two days. Being an ex-Miami Vice fan I had to go over and admire the sheer undiluted eighties-ness of it. Then when I watched it leave, wonder how two people (one a woman!) could fit two nights worth of clothes and toiletries under the bonnet.

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As some of the lads have mentioned already, Bentleys nowadays seem to be around alot, sure there is 2 GT continentals and 1 Flying Spur, a silver Ford GT and at least 2 Cayenne Turbos alone here in Ashbourne

I have seen some lovely cars in Monaco and San Diego, but on our roads here the best one I think was the silver SLR coming out of MDL last year, the size of it and the sound as it flew up the Longmile Road was awesome.

I was in a lovely 2006 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti for a few hot laps last year, holy sh*t it was one well finished and comfortable car inside.

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Been thinking about this thread... All my exotic spotting seem to be in Denmark but nonetheless:

Ferrari Enzo (on Danish plates €2 million!); a couple of summers ago. Juan Barazi arriving at the Historic Gran Prix in Copenhagen. Unusually it was silver in colour, took a couple of pictures after he parked it in the pitlane. He was racing an AC Cobra which he promptly crashed into a barrier taking out the front corner returning with the wheel hanging off it! He was due at the same event last summer and was to bring his Porsche 917 from the UK; unfortunately he did not make it.

Also in DK a Koenigsegg coming down the off-ramp on the opposite side of the motorway; would have loved to have seen it close-up.

I spotted the aforementioned orange Murcielago a couple of years ago in Dublin, UK plates.

For Maybach spotting go to New York; it seems to have become the luxury limo of choice for some of the better hotels, which does   undermine its exclusivity somewhat.

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West Hollywood in LA is great if you are foreign car spotting. We were at a trade show there last year and on the beer. Breakfast was eggs and bacon outside at this restaurant / bar beside the hotel and next door was a Starbucks.

I think we saw nearly every super car going and as for the babes buying their skinny lattes complete with the mutt in the handbag - don't think we really fitted in - slobering and letching away!!

Cars included - Most Porsche variants including a carrera, loads of Ferraris and Lambos, SLR  Mercs, lots of BMW M series and AMG MB but some of the nicest were the original US muscle cars. I know they are rubbish but the V8 sound from them is classic - even with a thumping headache.
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