Most exotic car on the road...

[mayk]

Hope all here had a Happy Holiday and your travels were safe....

After loading up our family into the van (ensuring all DVDs were working, all MP3 players and all PSPs were charged) for our three hour drive to Louisville, had to make a stop just outside of Evansville for gas (at a nice $2.98)...and while gassing (ahem the car that is) along pulls up a beautiful vintage Ferrari....

So my point? Two guys walk over with a point and shoot camera and take pictures of the car! One even asked if he could have a picture of him by the car????? Of course, these were two guys with a few teeth missing, wearing FILTHY boots and driving a pickup truck with used tires in the back! Was a great scene and kinda funny....but shows not to judge a book by its cover, as the two guys started talking with the owner and as we were leaving, the owner had the engine cover open and the three were having a great conversation....

So, to the point of this thread? What is the most exotic car you have seen at a gas station?

[Magical Trevor]

I'm obviously not going to count at the track... but you don't get much in the greater Hartford area. I think I've seen a Bentley Continental GT on the highway around here before...

[bullitt_60]

Modern "supercars" are pretty common around here. I see a Ferrari 360/430 or Aston Martin Vantage every other day. The guy the parks across from me drives a Lambo Gallardo. I'm so used to seeing it that it blends into the surroundings now. You have to go to an event to see classic supercars. I find most of these guys driving newer sports cars are wearing them as fashion accessories more than anything. I'd rather see a tastefully modified M3, Corvette, or a guy with a meticulously maintained MG. Those are car guys.

To answer the question though, I had to take my car up at the body shop last year after an unfortunate incident my car and I had. It was parked between two DB9s when I went to pick it up. My baby was in good company.

[mayk]

Although nothing really here in Evansville, although a dealer does have a Viper on display, I remember last year, when I was out in LA for a business trip....A Ford GT40 pulled in and I spoke with the owner.....awesome car....but then, right behind him pulled in this lady in her blue DB9! No kidding, something right out of the movies with her looooooong legs and short dress.... Um, the car was nice looking as well!

[John Thawley]

Man, we see everything around here... summertime you can head in to Birmingham and sit outside at 220 Merrill and pretty much have a revolving car show go by you.

JT

[Nick Koske]

Not at a gas station...but I saw a 550 Spyder driving a couple months back, could have been a replica I suppose, But it had black and yellow CA plates which mean the car was registered prior to 1963 and I don't think people were that into replicas prior to 1963.

Being in sillycon valley we see just about everything, Bentleys, Astons, Maseratis, Lambos, Ferraris, Porsches, BMWs, etc...

[ZRated]

As fas as what I've seen at a gas station.. would probably be a DB9. See them on the road about once every few weeks with an occassional Vanquish that I've seen by my parents house. Also a Z8 out there, but I haven't seen it in awhile.

Ferraris and Lambos I see rarely. Vipers and Z06s I see almost daily. Ford GTs pop up every week or two... but that could be because I work at Ford.

[Magical Trevor]

Ah, yes; not exotic in one sense, but in another-I remember in April 2004 seeing from my hotel balcony on a school trip to Washington D.C. (this was just across the Potomac in Arlington) what I swore was a european-spec E46 Compact, with the two-part headlights (http://300cv.b24.it/01_04_giugno/bmw...3compact01.jpg).
I thought that was a neat look for the previous-gen 3 series that should have been brought here... (maybe it was... to D.C.)

[wrxinsc]

When I went to UAE, it was very common to see Continental GTs on the road and I also saw a Mercedes Mclaren SLR at the mall and a Carrera GT or two. Here's some shots I took at a showroom in Abu Dhabi.

[Doctor Gonzo]

Recently saw a red Mercedes C111 in Wimbledon.............

But this may outrank that.........I followed these two for 20 miles cross country earlier this month.........it's not every day that you are comprehensively outgunned in a 997 Carrera................

Happy 2008 to you all..................