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My trained eye quickly saw this for what it was, a regular Carrera built to look like an RS. It’s a nice job that will fool most people but there are some tell tale signs that will make even the craftiest of replica makers quiver in their boots when facing an expert.
The cooling ducts for the front brakes is a nice touch, as is the front splitter although not standard but optional for the RS too.
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I can’t think of a single new car for under 50,000 Euro that I would rather have over this Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior. I have to bite the back of my hand not to scream whenever I see one of these and if you’re an owner of one, you are one seriously cool cat. It is easy to go out and spend lots of money trying to buy style or panache but when only having to fork over 12,000 Euro for a GT Junior in mint condition, you know you have an edge over everyone in their new, soulless, expensive cars.
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The Compact series was an effort from BMW to provide a smaller, cheaper car with BMW quality to the masses at a time when BMW’s models grew bigger and bigger. It never reached popularity in the United States as people with money to buy a BMW wanted to show their neighbour they could afford a real BMW, not some midget version of it.
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Often when cars like this are advertised for sale the text describing them include the words “eye catcher”. I am supposing that is meant to be positively charged, but someone fat and ugly walking naked down the street is also an “eye catcher” and I’d say it’s about the same level of stupidity going on there.
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Mercedes 230 SL Automatic
I only have this one picture of this car. Why I don’t know but I love the colour combination of ivory white paint with oxblood interior.
A small sample of pictures I haven’t been able to publish for various reasons but since I did once photograph them, I think they deserve a place here.
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Chevrolet Corvette Z06
I never learn. Sometimes I am just to stressed to remember getting good shots of the car I am driving, other times I plain forget the camera and on yet other occassions my iPhone just doesn’t cut it. This is a small collection of mishaps with cars that deserve much better.
This is the only shot of that Z06 I have even though I had the perfect opportunity to take some really crazy burn out pictures for once in a while. Ridiculous.
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Whenever a Porsche Turbo is featured in a car chase, you automatically know it’s going to be a good one. Unfortunately Hollywood needs to keep the suspense up so the Porsche can never seem to outrun even a Lincoln Continental Mark V or get away from its chasers, until the bad guys, or whom ever is following crashes in to a schoolbus or a boat parked in the town square.
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It’s well worth applauding GM’s efforts at making a car able to travel more than 50 kms on a full tank of petrol and starting with a giant SUV is actually brilliant. American men have long been far too self conscious about their appearance to drive smaller, economical vehicles as they think they may be percieved as unmanly by their peers. Could that be a clue to the hideous, baggy clothing they all wear too?
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Despite it being a cabriolet, seeing this made me week at the knees. It’s an absolute classic and one of the most iconic Porsches ever made. It says something that Porsche skipped 2 generations of the 911 (964 and 993) before making a Turbo Cabriolet again as the power combined with all the carachteristics of a Porsche made them quite hard to handle. Owning an original 930 Turbo today means getting all the benefit of the doubt from me. Continue reading…
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This Jaguar has a 3.4 litre, straight six developing 220 hp and is a copy of the C-type that won the 24 Heures du Mans in 1951 and 1953.
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TVR has never been ones to shy away from bold design and I really enjoy that from a car maker, someone who’s not afraid to show off and break away from the pack. I’m guessing it helps to be independent as you can pretty much do as you please without having to abide by stiff marketing people looking to penetrate the right target groups, large PR firms only looking to benefit themselves and out of place management with no grip on reality and the car buying public.
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A Ronin, or 浪人, is a masterless Samurai during the feudal period of Japan. A Samurai could become masterless from either the ruin or fall of his master by dishonor or death. Ronin literally means drifting person. According to the Bushido Shoshinshu (the code of the Samurai), a Samurai was supposed to commit oibara seppuku (or hara-kiri) upon the loss of his master. A samurai failing to honor the code suffered great shame and was on his own. Continue reading…
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I love small cars, the smaller the better usually as they cost less, use less petrol and it feels like you’re shot out of a cannon when driving them as the speed is so much more imminent when sitting so close to the ground. Not this one however, this is pure dog vomit and ugly as a pig’s scrotum.
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The Wiesmann logo depicts a Gecko as Wiesmann cars “stick to the road like Geckos to a wall”. I wouldn’t know about that since I have yet to test one but I with speed capabilites like that, it had better be true. A true GT but on the smaller side, the Wiesmann GT series employs the long bonnet with a small coupé at the end of the body and minimal overhang front and rear.
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The conundrum with small overweight cars is once again brought up on charges here on The Cartorialist. This little car has quite a powerful diesel engine of 2 litres with twin turbo and 204 hp which makes it surprisingly fast considering its massive weight but the effect of the speed is hampered by the cosy cabin and the feeling of being overly protected by the solid construction with an amount of airbags leaving me wondering if a crash would result in the kind of “crash foam” the cars in Demolition Man are equipped with.
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If you don’t have an 800 bhp Supra, a Koenigsegg or Bugatti Veyron, chances are very good you will be left in the dust when trying to go up against this monster. Alois Ruf does not build cars for posers but rather seriously skilled drivers wanting maximum performance.
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I love Aston Martins and everything about this car is perfect, the colour, the shape, the condition it’s in, the interior and I love how it looks without the bumpers as the body’s rounded shape comes to life more without them.
This particular car can be seen racing in the Heritage Grand Touring Car Challenge at various circuits around England.
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I guess fame comes with a price as Alain Delon now refers to himself in third person. It doesn’t really matter to me as it’s as a movie hero or antagonist he does his best work. The last “real” film he did is the much underappreciated Une Chance Sur Deux opposite Jean Paul Belmondo and Vanessa Paradis from 1998.
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What a wonderful car to have and drive with its 3.4 litre straight four, 4 speed manual gearbox with overdrive and sumptuous renovated leather seats making it seem like it’s 1955 all over again.
The XK 140 was capable of 140 mp/h - hence the name - and in 1954, that was seriously fast. It still is actually.
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The new Lexus IS F is a beast that will have AMG, M and RS owners looking anxiously over their shoulders for something Japanese that is just as fast as their beloved Germans.
The 5 litre V8 with 416 bhp have a marvellous feel to it and the sound is just amazing, on par with that famous Spitfire sound the AMGs make.
Unfortunately, the chromed end pipes mounted in that modern diagonal fashion are just there for show as they only fill an aesthetic function and are not connected to the exhaust system.
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