saw a 2009 Gran Turismo Sport yesterday downtown raleigh. then i realized I know the guy that drives it. he just turned 24.

10/13/2010 8:35:43 PM

man i bet you wish you were him right now

10/13/2010 9:57:35 PM

saw a convertible Aston Martin in Garner last night.

10/13/2010 10:08:32 PM

no not really. he and i have opposite views on liking the opposite sex and I am married

10/14/2010 10:34:13 AM

saw these parked outside my hotel last night (in San Diego)





Was up in the Laguna Hills/Beach area over the weekend and saw about as many exotics as you see Range Rovers in Raleigh. several Aston Martins, Maseratis, ferraris, Lambos, 3 R8s, and some that I couldn't ID. unfortunately, my phone was dead while we were driving around, so didn't get any pics of what I saw that day.

10/19/2010 5:57:08 PM

ridiculous money out there

10/20/2010 8:26:45 AM

The funny thing is that big Porsche can hang with that Lamborghini in acceleration, lol.

10/20/2010 9:47:50 AM

Saw a Tesla parked in Fuquay-Varina today.

No, it's not really an exotic, and I personally find it to be a stupid, pointless vehicle...but it's noteworthy and the first one I've seen.

10/24/2010 12:41:02 AM

Saw my first MB SLS AMG (outside of a showroom). Classic SL Gullwing silver in color.

That car is gorgeous... so much more so than the SLR. And it looked tiny!

What I can't understand is why it costs half as much as the SLR.

10/24/2010 9:28:06 AM

Saw a Maserati Quattroporte last week at an ADF cocktail party.

10/24/2010 1:10:18 PM

i wanna see an SLS AMG

10/27/2010 8:58:03 PM

^^^Simpler design and less complicated assembly. It also shares a common engine with every other AMG badged vehicle (with a few minor differences like dry sump, intake, exhaust, etc.). That lowers costs dramatically. Also, the SLS is NOT a small car. That bitch is heavy.

Saw a MB CLK63 AMG Black Series at the Cary Auto Show on Sunday, made me look twice

Last night saw an orange Exige and yellow 360 Modena drive by while enjoying a few beers at The Raleigh Times. (the Ferrari ended up parallel parking behind me, haha).

10/28/2010 9:07:07 AM

Saw 2 of the latest and greatest supercars today:

Silver SLS (my 3rd SLS spotting not in a showroom)
White 458 Italia (1st not in a showroom)

11/27/2010 4:37:38 PM

saw a Fiat 500 at hendrick collision last week. 2011 model. left hand drive and everything. who sells Fiat in Raleigh

11/27/2010 4:52:51 PM

The Fiat 500 is a Chrysler product that just got introduced recently in the US. It is anticipated that Alpha Romeo may come to the US next year some time. The 500 is going to be the only "Fiat" model offered here, I believe.

I think the Fiat is awesome. In comparison to the Smart ForTwo, this car offers so much more for about $1k or so more... slightly less emissions, better gas mileage, more storage while not being that much bigger (a couple inches in each direction), and better power to weight ratio. Fiat 500 > Smartcars



[Edited on November 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM. Reason : Fiat 500 looks sexier than a Smartcar.]

11/27/2010 6:23:26 PM

^seriously? A tandem bicycle or 3 wheeled golf cart is a better than a Smart (with the exception of the crazy fuckers that swap the Busa motors into them). Also, fuck a fiat 500 that isn't at least an abarth. Seriously, this is the exotic thread. Let's at least keep it to cars that you would choose to be seen in over a Honda odyssey.

V - it's called exaggeration. Congrats on thinking that I honestly believe anyone here would choose a tandem bike over a car also.

[Edited on November 27, 2010 at 7:31 PM. Reason : .]

11/27/2010 7:07:34 PM

I would rather be seen in a base Fiat 500 over a fully optioned out Honda Odyssey... and that's true for [nearly] everybody in here.

P.S. I would rather be seen = I would rather drive (I don't give a shit about what other people think about what I am seen driving)

But of course, it is not an exotic, so your point using an extremely poor choice for comparison, is taken. Ragged was just being his usual moron, because he saw something and didn't know how to use Google.


[Edited on November 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM. Reason : ]

11/27/2010 7:17:02 PM

lol at ^ & ^^.

11/27/2010 7:54:47 PM

thanks for the lol

11/27/2010 9:37:21 PM

yea i guess you fags are right I see a Fiat every fucking day,



chill the fuck out. i mean seriously. i know its not an exotic but i havent seen one in the states that wasnt built before 1975 or some shit and i just wanted to know the deal.

11/28/2010 11:51:18 AM

Quote :

"he saw something and didn't know how to use Google."

11/28/2010 4:17:10 PM

11/28/2010 5:59:09 PM

back to the topic - saw a black Audi R8 on Hillsborough and later a black Maserati GranTurismo on Wade yesterday. did someone mention a few pages back who owns that R8?

11/28/2010 7:16:57 PM

i think i saw an f430 scuderia in cary this morning. Has anyone else seen this? Was silver with black stripes....so either it was Scuderia or aftermarket stripes.

Young asian guy driving it.....was seen on High house rd right at the intersection of Cary Pkwy

12/6/2010 9:51:29 AM

I saw a burgundy gallardo on N Capital Blvd last Thursday afternoon

12/6/2010 11:27:15 AM

Quote :

"It is anticipated that Alpha Romeo "

12/6/2010 12:21:12 PM

Quote :

"But of course, it is not an exotic, so your point using an extremely poor choice for comparison, is taken. Ragged was just being his usual moron, because he saw something and didn't know how to use Google."

that is the biggest load of crap I have heard in a while...

ex·ot·ic
/?g'z?t?k/
–adjective
1.
of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized: exotic foods; exotic plants.
2.
strikingly unusual or strange in effect or appearance: an exotic hairstyle.
3.
of a uniquely new or experimental nature: exotic weapons.


I fail to see how a car that is just being brought to this country, and I personally have only seen in Europe, is not considered exotic. A suburban would be an "exotic" in France (at least it would have been 10 years ago... don't know what the market for SUV's is like over there). Just because it doesn't have a dancing horse on the hood, and will not do 0-60 in under 5 seconds does not mean it isn't an exotic. Yall need to work on your trolling a little better, and at least get some workable material

12/6/2010 1:04:00 PM

Let's be realistic. Exotic in most cases = unobtainable. Nobody cares about some new Fiat (that anyone who keeps up with car news would have known was on it's way over anyway) that in a year or two will be all over the place. I don't call the first 2011 Honda Accord I see exotic just b/c I haven't seen one yet.

12/6/2010 1:49:40 PM

meh- I guess I just want to believe in the literal definition there.

12/6/2010 2:11:23 PM

Quote :

"that is the biggest load of crap I have heard in a while... "

Then here is a fucking exotic for you!



And another one!

Quote :

"Yall need to work on your trolling a little better"

So... who needs to work a little better?

12/6/2010 3:16:41 PM

If I saw that in a parking lot, I would definitely report back- you know why? BECAUSE IT IS UNCOMMON IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD, THUS EXOTIC



arguing that it isn't is just stupid



note, I've already admitted that we might have different standards for exotic, but you can't say that a car new to america, that dude has never seen before is not an exotic vehicle. The first Hybrid I saw was exotic to me. The first electric car I saw was exotic to me. It might not be exotic to you, but you are just trolling Ragged for the sake of trolling

[Edited on December 6, 2010 at 3:37 PM. Reason : not that I really care, but I'm calling it how I see it]

12/6/2010 3:33:48 PM

Just for that I'm gonna bitch slap you around when we play GT5 later this week.

12/6/2010 3:45:14 PM

hell, if I saw a honda integra, I'd call it exotic, just because we only had the acura's here. And those are very obtainable. Hell, so are the R34's and Silvias... I looked very hard at getting a silvia imported to california and driving back here across the country.


^and I welcome this challenge!

12/6/2010 3:50:02 PM

Lord have Mercy.

Someone forgot to pay attention to the concept of 'context' in school.

12/6/2010 5:17:19 PM

^^ is it worth buying a ps3 or is Forza just as good.

12/6/2010 7:28:00 PM

I haven't played it yet. But I hear the only real difference is that GT5's graphics are 50% better than Forza (and GT5 shares the nostalgia of all the previous ones... I "grew up" with those)

12/6/2010 7:33:19 PM

Offtopic, but Forza3 is taking fucking forever to finish. FML.

12/6/2010 7:59:25 PM

I don't know if I'd exactly call it exotic, but I saw a Morgan the other day on I-85 in SC.

12/6/2010 8:02:49 PM

On my way to work today, I spotted an old 280SL. Looked to be in great shape, but couldn't get a picture of it at night

Here's a couple google pics for reference:





[Edited on December 6, 2010 at 8:24 PM. Reason : .]

12/6/2010 8:16:08 PM

Quote :

"is it worth buying a ps3 or is Forza just as good."

I bought a PS3 originally just for GT5. Forza can't match the physics engine of GT5.

12/6/2010 10:06:23 PM

Audi R8 in the mcdonalds parking lot in chapel hill...



[Edited on December 13, 2010 at 12:36 PM. Reason : .]

12/13/2010 12:35:48 PM

lol i saw the picture label and was all wtf?

12/13/2010 12:51:34 PM

Yeah, I had in my head that it is a V10, and typed in R10 instead of R8.

12/13/2010 1:13:28 PM

My weekend trip to DC was a disappointment in car terms. Just one Lotus Exige, two Maserati Quattroportes, one Dodge Viper (exotic to me, if not to you), and the normal collection of Porches.

12/13/2010 2:08:21 PM

does this count?

12/13/2010 2:21:41 PM

^^^ but is that the V10 model, or just the vanilla V8? i can't tell from the pic. did it have 2 (V10) tailpipes or 4 (V8)?

12/13/2010 5:01:05 PM

strange the V8 would have more pipes than the V10

12/13/2010 6:10:05 PM

this is an r8 v10 and i almost mistook it for my awd black car LOL...

Mine's only down 6 cylinders

12/13/2010 7:31:57 PM

Quote :

"^^^ but is that the V10 model, or just the vanilla V8? i can't tell from the pic. did it have 2 (V10) tailpipes or 4 (V8)? "

Definitely V10. It was decaled on the side.

12/14/2010 3:22:26 PM

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12/17/2010 8:52:58 AM