London Cars

Great pics. I agree enitirely about the Aston - hopefully they'll start and do more works developed versions of the current range in the near future.

Where do you go to spot the cars (other than the Dorchester and Harrods)? I was once waiting to meet a friend on High St Kensington and had time to kill so took a walk around some of the side streets surrounding there and saw some nice cars (mainly Bentleys, Astons and the like). There was one house had an SLR and a Phantom parked out front. THe house was for sale so later I looked on the net and found out they wanted offers over £22 million. Nice life that Phantom owners lead huh?

 

Please tell me thats not a red dash and steering wheel in that 430?

No wonder his mate is laughing!!!!

 

I saw the same Aston and Veyron. The Aston is, I heard, one of only 30 T600 built! I got some nice London pics from summer too, going to make a gallery later on

 

The Veryon is totally fugly. Saw one in Cannes last year, had a good look around it and TBH I wouldnt buy one even if I had the dollar to do so.

 

i saw that aston, and another one that was pretty rare too at the same time, they were parked about 2 streets below the ritz hotel, and off pall mall, it was an amazing sight
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I'll be in London for work in a couple of weeks so hopefully I can add a few nice cars to this thread... keep up the pictures. There are always plenty of exotic and rare motors on the streets of London

 

I've seen this rolling restoration around notting hill few times.
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Doh! Yeah I knew, was thinking of how the guy has a slightly wrong plate... and apparently I made the same mistake.

 

Here's a link to my gallery of London car pics;

http://www.*************/gallery/56363/1171/1.html

 

Some cracking spots there Marek, icluding a Bentley GTC over 6 months ago!

BUT....wtf is that Pink S Class all about? Whoever comissioned that abomination needs to have a serious chat with themselves. (some how, I cant get the pics to post up here)

 

Some fabulous pics - I love the ones of the F430 and Gallardo outside that blue building.

It never ceases to amaze me how many cars there are in london with arabic plates these days

 

There are not too many this time of year, but seem to be pretty common in the summer. Players!

 

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The GTC was outside a Bentley showroom, I was quite surprised myself, hence the quick pic

The S class... yeah, that REALLY was smth, shame I didn't have a proper cam with me, just the phone. Thing is I've seen other pics of it, with Saudi plates. When I saw it though it had some really crazy plates - they looked like some metal art sculpture, never seen anything like it. While I can understand the eccentricity of the colour though... those wheels just kill me each time I look at those pics. Ugh :|

 

I like the ones when the 2 are leaving that place They seemed in a hurry, hope it wasn't due to me taking pics of their cars, because they seemed to take off some 10min after I started And I hope you DID spot that huge black horse sculpture there? Perfect setting... just too bad it wasn't on its hind legs

 

It seemed like MOST of the cars in the Knightsbridge area where arab cars at that time... especially around Harrods

 

Is that the vantage with the 600bhp power upgrade???

 

Are you sure it wasn't Rotting Hill ? LOL

 

Nice shots eveyrone, think London must be one of the top places to spot exotics but it has been a long time since i have been, so maybe a visit this year is in order !!

In answer to an question in the 1st post about the Veyron, I believe i know it is owned by a Saudi Arabian prince who was in London for sometime and decided to ship his veyron here, leave it parked out the front for 6 months so he could see it. I don't believe he ever drove it and it may now have been sent back to Saudi. That's a put together of all of the sotires and myths i have heard about it so take it with a pinch of salt

 

I noticed there are quite a lot of cars there with Middle Eastern plates.

I'm curious, on what basis they can be used freely like that? Is it b/c of the owners are under diplomatic purposes or is it one can bring their cars privately and freely from their home countries?

 

ohhhh myyyy looorrrdddd
i would kill for that car!
lol

-Thomas

 

Nope. It belongs, IIRC, to the son of the Sheikh of Ajman, one of the emirates in the UAE.

It was a shock for me when I first saw the car (at that time, parked by the Sheraton) and decided I was going to wait no matter how long just to hear it run. About 30min later some young (I would say no more than 20-22yrs old) arab guys walk out of the Sheraton. One walks up to the Veyron, starts looking - all fine. Suddenly he opens the driver's door - at which moment I'm thinking: what the hell is he doing?? The nerve of just going up like that and opening it?! Then he actually sits inside, which to me spelt bigtime trouble for this guy. Only when the lights turned on and a split second later the low rumble of the W16 came to life did I realize this young guy was actually the OWNER Eh... some people have it all.