Yar so I just got back from a vacation in the UK, and in London we stayed in a hotel in wealthy Kensington... so obviously there was majorly expensive cars everywhere. I saw so many expensive saloons (lolbritishterms) that they just looked normal to me after a while, you could hardly turn your head without seeing an S-class... followed by another S-class :lol:.
Somehow I saw a few DB9s and numerous Vantages but didn't get a single half decent picture of any Astons, I mean, FFS, one night when we went out to eat some guy parked his Vantage on the street right in front of us as we were walking back to the hotel, but I had decided to drop the camera off before going out, gah! Also saw a black Murcielago on the M4 for like 2 seconds, so I didn't manage to snap that (and a bus in the bus lane!), and later a Gallardo with a really bitchin purple-gold dual tone paint job (the exact same paint is available in Forza 2 btw, and it would've been just awful if it wasn't on something as ridiculous as a lambo), I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of that.
Anyways, heres the pictures that I managed to capture. The only editing is cropping and sharpening on most of the pictures. I didn't waste the energy of moving my finger a little bit on riffraff like Benzes and Beemers and Porsches, no I only took pictures of fo real nice cars that you don't see in every city. I do have a few more photos, but they're either blurrrrrrry or you can hardly even see the car.
An odd site coming out of Heathrow, a stretch Charger with a nice pearl paintjob.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6258.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6259.jpg
Gallardo with the liscense plate "CL053RR"
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6268.jpg
A very shiny, clean Arnage
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6282.jpg
Around the corner on the same street (the street is really short and comes off two main streets with a corner in the middle of it). I saw one other Granturismo, in blue, but the picture I got of that is just a blur. This car has presence!
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6283.jpg
A sexy sexy sexy new TT with an ugly old Arnage covering it up (yeah, ok, I was taking the picture of the Bentley, the Audi just happened to get in the shot)
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6316.jpg
Not a particularily rare car, but I just thought it was a good picture.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6333.jpg
It's... most of a Ferrari 550!
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6334.jpg
Oh god, I don't even know how many Continentals I saw, but I just ignored them after a while :lol:
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6402.jpg
Words are not necessary. Possibly my favourite sighting from my 4 days in London. We ate a pub just at the next street corner away from this piece of awesomeness. Saw another in dark blue, and one in silver.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6405.jpg
Honestly the best Aston Martin photo I have. IIRC it was a DB9 (I can't tell the difference at the front tbh)
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6412.jpg
Mazzer Fourdoor (yer in England, speak english dammit!). Before seeing one in person I thought they were kind of iffy looking, but now I think they're just about the sexiest sedans around, even with that big nose.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6415.jpg
Notice how large the compact car in front of this Elise looks. Parked outside of the home of the guy who owned it, like 20 seconds walking distance from the hotel. The picture was really dark so I lightened it nearly to oblivion (the car was blue if you can't tell).
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6787.jpg
Ugly footballer's car, anyone?
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7047.jpg
And another Quattroporte, this one just outside Buckingham palace.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7195.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7198.jpg
It's a Rolls Phantom, can you tell? Another car that I couldn't seem to get any decent snaps of, and I saw several too.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7202.jpg
I have a feeling these are both the same car, even though there was 5 minutes between photos. The second picture's quality is pretty ehhh because I didn't bother looking when I took the photo so I didn't use any zoooom so it's almost a full res crop.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7362.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7369.jpg
Not even in London, in fact I think I was just taking a picture of the bank, but it turned out to be a cool looking picture of that model of Jag that just blatantly looks like an Aston, except ugly and dull.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7402.jpg
Again not London. I woke up one morning to find this sitting on a flatbed in the parking lot- oh, sorry, car park outside my window. It was huuuuge! You can't tell in this downsized picture, but that's a Flying B on the front. Old Bentley in British racing green, can a car be more British?
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7953.jpg
I saved the best for last, the extremely rare McClaren Mercedes SLR convertible... or is it SLR McClaren Mercedes... It was at a really posh looking hotel (could've been apartments, dunno, didn't really look at the building) along with two other Mercedi, don't remember or care what they were. Less downsized than the rest of the images, for your gawking pleasure.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6398_copy.jpg
Somehow I saw a few DB9s and numerous Vantages but didn't get a single half decent picture of any Astons, I mean, FFS, one night when we went out to eat some guy parked his Vantage on the street right in front of us as we were walking back to the hotel, but I had decided to drop the camera off before going out, gah! Also saw a black Murcielago on the M4 for like 2 seconds, so I didn't manage to snap that (and a bus in the bus lane!), and later a Gallardo with a really bitchin purple-gold dual tone paint job (the exact same paint is available in Forza 2 btw, and it would've been just awful if it wasn't on something as ridiculous as a lambo), I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of that.
Anyways, heres the pictures that I managed to capture. The only editing is cropping and sharpening on most of the pictures. I didn't waste the energy of moving my finger a little bit on riffraff like Benzes and Beemers and Porsches, no I only took pictures of fo real nice cars that you don't see in every city. I do have a few more photos, but they're either blurrrrrrry or you can hardly even see the car.
An odd site coming out of Heathrow, a stretch Charger with a nice pearl paintjob.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6258.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6259.jpg
Gallardo with the liscense plate "CL053RR"
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6268.jpg
A very shiny, clean Arnage
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6282.jpg
Around the corner on the same street (the street is really short and comes off two main streets with a corner in the middle of it). I saw one other Granturismo, in blue, but the picture I got of that is just a blur. This car has presence!
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6283.jpg
A sexy sexy sexy new TT with an ugly old Arnage covering it up (yeah, ok, I was taking the picture of the Bentley, the Audi just happened to get in the shot)
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6316.jpg
Not a particularily rare car, but I just thought it was a good picture.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6333.jpg
It's... most of a Ferrari 550!
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6334.jpg
Oh god, I don't even know how many Continentals I saw, but I just ignored them after a while :lol:
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6402.jpg
Words are not necessary. Possibly my favourite sighting from my 4 days in London. We ate a pub just at the next street corner away from this piece of awesomeness. Saw another in dark blue, and one in silver.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6405.jpg
Honestly the best Aston Martin photo I have. IIRC it was a DB9 (I can't tell the difference at the front tbh)
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6412.jpg
Mazzer Fourdoor (yer in England, speak english dammit!). Before seeing one in person I thought they were kind of iffy looking, but now I think they're just about the sexiest sedans around, even with that big nose.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_6415.jpg
Notice how large the compact car in front of this Elise looks. Parked outside of the home of the guy who owned it, like 20 seconds walking distance from the hotel. The picture was really dark so I lightened it nearly to oblivion (the car was blue if you can't tell).
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6787.jpg
Ugly footballer's car, anyone?
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7047.jpg
And another Quattroporte, this one just outside Buckingham palace.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7195.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7198.jpg
It's a Rolls Phantom, can you tell? Another car that I couldn't seem to get any decent snaps of, and I saw several too.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7202.jpg
I have a feeling these are both the same car, even though there was 5 minutes between photos. The second picture's quality is pretty ehhh because I didn't bother looking when I took the photo so I didn't use any zoooom so it's almost a full res crop.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7362.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7369.jpg
Not even in London, in fact I think I was just taking a picture of the bank, but it turned out to be a cool looking picture of that model of Jag that just blatantly looks like an Aston, except ugly and dull.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7402.jpg
Again not London. I woke up one morning to find this sitting on a flatbed in the parking lot- oh, sorry, car park outside my window. It was huuuuge! You can't tell in this downsized picture, but that's a Flying B on the front. Old Bentley in British racing green, can a car be more British?
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/11/IMG_7953.jpg
I saved the best for last, the extremely rare McClaren Mercedes SLR convertible... or is it SLR McClaren Mercedes... It was at a really posh looking hotel (could've been apartments, dunno, didn't really look at the building) along with two other Mercedi, don't remember or care what they were. Less downsized than the rest of the images, for your gawking pleasure.
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/07/12/IMG_6398_copy.jpg
