Today was a good day for car spotting!
I'd not seen anything interesting for a while, and wasn't sure what this first one was. Looked a bit like a Daihatsu Copen, had it been designed 10 years ago.
Actually, that's a lie. It looks like a wheeled jellybean.
It's a Nissan Figaro.
Can't imagine driving it with a straight look on my face. Yes, that's me in the shadow on the first one.
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Then, crossing at the lights headed home - bingo! It's a 4-litre TVR Chimaera, according to the badge on the back.
http://img365.imageshack.**/img365/4084/tvr13pf.jpg
Hello there! Why is the roof not down, on this most sunny of days?
http://img87.imageshack.**/img87/4457/tvr26yt.jpg
I live in hope of one day spotting a Sagaris, but anyone who takes a Sagaris into the city centre is a pillock, to be honest, with the potholes and low spoiler.
http://img365.imageshack.**/img365/7158/tvr34ou.jpg
This more than made up for having a fairly lousy car seeing week.
But then, the killer blow :
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Had to dodge in and out of traffic, risking life and limb for you lot! [Ok, maybe dodging loads of barely-moving buses]
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This is the second Phantom I've seen, the first I only glimpsed. Got a nice long look at this one! It's full of great touches - the centre of the rims for example stay stationary, and don't spin. I'm sure you knew that though.
To be honest, though, I'm not keen on the back end. It's far too similar to both RRs of the past and Bentley saloons. They made a big impact and modernisation of the rest of the car, why not there?
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And my favourite photo of the day, because it's unnecessecarily arty :
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