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Here's what I saw today - Part II (Please read the rules before posting)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭JamieIsGod


    Like Marcin I too went to AE86Fest today, I'll only post a few of my shots though:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Amazing photos, Marcinek.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭blingrhino


    Those Donegal lads love Twin cams !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Je suis tres mal


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Its bloody huge but like driving a plastic and chrome couch id say

    Yes having seen it up close, and speaking to the owner, it's one of the few good cars to come out of the US in the 90's.
    In an era of FWD and downsized former great cars, the big caddy stayed as a RWD body on frame sedan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Up in NI for the festival of flight and came across this, wouldn't be a lover of mx5's but i thought this was very cool :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭JamieIsGod


    While we're on the subject of MX5's, this was in Mondello on Friday:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Marcinek_55


    Thanks everyone for comments to my photos. I'm glad you like them.
    Autosport wrote: »
    P.S when's Heatwave???

    29th of August.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    In London at the weekend with 4 hours to spare... spent around Hyde Park and Kensington... Those suburbs seem to be awash with money if the cars are anything to go by. Here is a small selection of the beautiful and downright odd...

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    <<First 6 here were Parked Outside the Dorchester hotel.... some of these are on QATAR plates>>
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    And a few more...

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    <<This is real purple velvet!!!!>>
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    <<These are actual rhinestones>>
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    It occurred to me that owning a Aston Martin in London seems to be no longer exclusive... there are THAT many roaming the streets. Also "seen" but travelling too quick... 3 Nissan GTR's, 2 Ferrari 458 spiders, a maserati of some ilk with the most unbelievable after market exhaust system I've ever heard. And a world of Aston Martins...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    not as good as my felt spec edition.


    * could be same idiot who owns it, looks like its parked in the same place. That guy needs a lobotomy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    For the Quatar ones its clearly a case of whatever the rich Dubai boys have....hey we also have oil resources and can ship expensive cars to London via air freight in Summer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    Today I saw a 530D taxed as a 3L - will wonders never cease!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭JamieIsGod


    Saw this in Howth last night:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭pippip


    ^ Feckin love that chipper!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Today I saw a 530D taxed as a 3L - will wonders never cease!
    Maybe because it is a 3L...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    smash wrote: »
    Maybe because it is a 3L...

    Think his point was that it's rare to see a 3L BMW that's not taxed as something smaller.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    smash wrote: »
    Maybe because it is a 3L...
    What country are you posting from, this is Ireland... only a fool would tax their 530d as anything but a 520d :pac:

    First example from donedeal :
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/530d-msport/9438630?offset=3

    2.0 on de book.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    Think his point was that it's rare to see a 3L BMW that's not taxed as something smaller.

    Quite. Obviously some sort of mental defective. After all, I tax my own 3l as a 3l... hey, wait a minute!! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    Think his point was that it's rare to see a 3L BMW that's not taxed as something smaller.

    No it's not. It is however common to see 520's badged as M5's
    What country are you posting from, this is Ireland... only a fool would tax their 530d as anything but a 520d :pac:

    First example from donedeal :
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/530d-msport/9438630?offset=3

    2.0 on de book.

    The ad doesn't say 2.0 on the book. Anyone that submits a form to the revenue for a change of engine size and then doesn't change it, is a fcuking idiot. All they're doing is voiding their insurance and they'll be caught at NCT time anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    What country are you posting from, this is Ireland... only a fool would tax their 530d as anything but a 520d :pac:

    First example from donedeal :
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/530d-msport/9438630?offset=3

    2.0 on de book.

    That's not what the ad linked says.
    €1494 to tax.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    smash wrote: »
    No it's not. It is however common to see 520's badged as M5's



    The ad doesn't say 2.0 on the book. Anyone that submits a form to the revenue for a change of engine size and then doesn't change it, is a fcuking idiot. All they're doing is voiding their insurance and they'll be caught at NCT time anyway.
    Do they though, if the licence and reg stacks up (as in matches with their records) the NCT don't care - I can't see how a 3.0l Co2 emissions test could be done for a 2.0l - :confused: Or, a 3.0l would pass a 2.0l test. Surely the 3.0l spits out more Co2 and therefore has higher limits in the test....
    I think you might be in trouble alright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    smash wrote: »
    they'll be caught at NCT time anyway.
    Nope. You'd think so, but no. We're gone way off on a tangent lads, back to the photos of actual nice cars and abominations ruined by Saudis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    cadaliac wrote: »
    ...I can't see how a 3.0l Co2 emissions test could be done for a 2.0l - :confused: Or, a 3.0l would pass a 2.0l test. Surely the 3.0l spits out more Co2 and therefore has higher limits in the test...

    The measured unit at the tailpipe is parts-per-million for HC and CO, and "Lambda" for oxygen, the latter being a stoichiometric ratio of fuel-to-air. This proportionality means that the same target values are perfectly valid regardless of engine displacement. In short, it's exactly the same test for a 1l and a 4.2l of around the same year, and correctly so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,391 ✭✭✭jozi


    2008 gt3 in Donnybrook


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭zizou_


    DB9 in need of a wash! You can just about make out the dodgy coloured wooden dash.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    smash wrote: »
    No it's not.

    It really is. You've never seen ads stating that cars with larger engines are 1.8/2.0 on the logbook? It's been discussed at length. Do a search.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-seize-18-bmws-for-tax-fraud-31058511.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    It really is. You've never seen ads stating that cars with larger engines are 1.8/2.0 on the logbook? It's been discussed at length. Do a search.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-seize-18-bmws-for-tax-fraud-31058511.html
    Of course I've seen it but it's not hugely common. It was more common in the days of "Glanza Turbo: 1.2 starlet on logbook"

    Anyway, it's for a different thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    *cough Here's what I saw today - Part II

    not 1.2 on da log book.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Edwardius


    Saw a Tesla near Dundrum (no pics :( ). I was thinking "that's a curvy looking mondeo... oh wait". There can't be too many of those around.


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