The Cars Spotted Appreciation Thread

Willo40 · Wednesday at 3:06 PM

Scrooge said:
I think so, I bloody love them, just not their prices for a decent running one

Yea they are serious money, and not cheap to run by all accounts.

cat171 · Wednesday at 4:16 PM

@Scrooge

Is that all on one road? If so, what a legend! I bet his neighbours get fucked off with it though. I love them!

ForceIndia · Wednesday at 5:42 PM

Willo40 said:
Yea they are serious money, and not cheap to run by all accounts.

“Let’s take 2 brands, not renowned for reliability and combine them!”

Shall we take the most reliable, sturdy parts and use them in combination?

“Yes. Do that. But opposite.”

Scrooge · Wednesday at 10:22 PM

cat171 said:
@Scrooge

Is that all on one road? If so, what a legend! I bet his neighbours get fucked off with it though. I love them!

Yep, near waterloo station. He had a few more too

FatRS · Thursday at 11:47 AM

Drove in at my work earlier today.

TC. · Thursday at 11:50 AM

Short Norman · Thursday at 12:05 PM

TC. said:
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there's a young lad near us with one of those, not as clean as that one though.

cat171 · Thursday at 1:07 PM

ForceIndia said:
“Let’s take 2 brands, not renowned for reliability and combine them!”

Shall we take the most reliable, sturdy parts and use them in combination?

“Yes. Do that. But opposite.”

That's like the Nissan Cherry & Alfa Arna

TC. · Friday at 12:17 AM

Maybe a bit too much going on.

thecrim22 · Friday at 5:41 AM

TC. said:
Maybe a bit too much going on.

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Doesn't look hellish other than the gash number plate

Tighten My Nuts · Friday at 7:09 AM

That's almost got a the full-house of stick on tat.

Clio_fool · Friday at 9:02 AM

Maaaxton-on-on-on-on!

Trainerbrow · Friday at 9:07 AM

Those rear window quarter covers bug me WAY more than they should.

Nickw88 · Friday at 9:49 AM

Not a great photo, but I do love these.

ForceIndia · Friday at 11:12 AM

Trainerbrow said:
Those rear window quarter covers bug me WAY more than they should.

I love the Mustang style louvred ones. Just so stylish on a 5dr hatch👌🏾

Clio_fool · Friday at 12:17 PM

Spotted a mk1 focus RS in the wild this morning 😍. I think they might be worth the very expensive road tax.

Matt Cup · Friday at 12:22 PM

Clio_fool said:
Spotted a mk1 focus RS in the wild this morning 😍. I think they might be worth the very expensive road tax.

MK1 RS’s don’t have the very expensive road tax. It’ll be around 390/400 like my Cup.

cat171 · Friday at 1:44 PM

ForceIndia said:
I love the Mustang style louvred ones. Just so stylish on a 5dr hatch👌🏾

I often see a bloke driving round in a Mk3 Focus ST after work with those!

ForceIndia · Friday at 2:10 PM

cat171 said:
I often see a connoisseur driving round in a Mk3 Focus ST after work with those! 🤤

He’s king of the local Ford scene. Bet his cap matches his keyring.

Trainerbrow · Friday at 3:10 PM

Clio_fool said:
Spotted a mk1 focus RS in the wild this morning 😍. I think they might be worth the very expensive road tax.

Beautiful things. Shame they went for sparco seats instead of recaros though

Trainerbrow · Friday at 3:10 PM

😍😍

Matt Cup · Friday at 3:12 PM

Trainerbrow said:
Beautiful things. Shame they went for sparco seats instead of recaros though

Or they should have put the FRP seats in the RS.

CrippsCorner · Friday at 9:39 PM

Cheating as very small car meet over my mum's local park. Unfortunately the Skyline had gone before I could get pictures of the front...

Oh and terrible picture this but wonderful green Alfa 🥰

E30kev · Friday at 11:36 PM

CrippsCorner said:
Cheating as very small car meet over my mum's local park. Unfortunately the Skyline had gone before I could get pictures of the front...

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Oh and terrible picture this but wonderful green Alfa 🥰

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That E9….

Nickw88 · 2025-08-02T19:32:35+0100

This was absolutely spotless 😍

KitsonRis · 2025-08-02T20:02:41+0100

E30kev said:
That E9….

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Probably the car I’d buy if I ever came into serious money. Typical super cars do nothing for me, I’d rather roll around in something like a 3.0 csl.

It’s mad that while BMW were making that glorious piece of art us over here at BL were making the god awful Triumph 2000 🤣 (back when I was 18 my step dad, brother and I had a triumph 2000 as a track car, stripped out with an M10 engine from an E30 325i touring, it was awful and quite cool at the same time)

E30kev · 2025-08-02T21:18:53+0100

KitsonRis said:
Probably the car I’d buy if I ever came into serious money. Typical super cars do nothing for me, I’d rather roll around in something like a 3.0 csl.

It’s mad that while BMW were making that glorious piece of art us over here at BL were making the god awful Triumph 2000 🤣 (back when I was 18 my step dad, brother and I had a triumph 2000 as a track car, stripped out with an M10 engine from an E30 325i touring, it was awful and quite cool at the same time)

Engine would’ve been an m20b25 from a 325i (m10 was a wheezy 1.8 carbed up shitter) and that must’ve been a riot in a lightweight Triumph.

Echo the thoughts on the E9, this was my screensaver at work for years…

KitsonRis · 2025-08-02T21:29:12+0100

E30kev said:
Engine would’ve been an m20b25 from a 325i (m10 was a wheezy 1.8 carbed up shitter) and that must’ve been a riot in a lightweight Triumph.

Echo the thoughts on the E9, this was my screensaver at work for years…

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Ahh yeah ok, that was it. It was Ummm interesting! From what I know it is still kicking about, OPD972L is the registration.

Short Norman · 2025-08-02T21:38:38+0100

Can I join in with the old BMW loving

Obviously these aren’t cars that’s I’ve spotted though 😜

E30kev · 2025-08-02T21:39:13+0100

KitsonRis said:
Ahh yeah ok, that was it. It was Ummm interesting! From what I know it is still kicking about, OPD972L is the registration.

Aye about 170bhp & 167lb/ft, Triumph must’ve been <900kg surely?

KitsonRis · 2025-08-02T21:47:28+0100

E30kev said:
Aye about 170bhp & 167lb/ft, Triumph must’ve been <900kg surely?

Mainly because of BL rust 🤣 it was fast for what it was but still like trying to wrangle a super tanker through the Suez Canal. In hindsight saving the E30 donor car would have been a better deal than hacking it apart for a Triumph. Only was a 2000 as the Dolomite Sprint we looked at for the same money had no sills.