I spotted a NEW (insert make/model) today!

thebean

Bentley Bentayga in Plano (north of Dallas). White with Montana plates. You don’t see many Bentleys in this area.

gsemike

That would be hard to get used to

fintail

The redundant little screen low at center bugs me somehow.

Michaell

thebean said:

Bentley Bentayga in Plano (north of Dallas). White with Montana plates. You don’t see many Bentleys in this area.

Not surprised by the Montana plates. Probably registered to an LLC set up for just that purpose.

ab348

The right half is merely for the entertainment and amusement of a passenger on that side. I believe I heard it can be turned off if desired. Just more evidence that auto designers are struggling to figure out what to do with screen tech and design. Hopefully there are no touch controls that the driver may need to access over on that side. Why a driver should ever need to access touch controls on a screen is a mystery in itself.

fintail

Got behind a Cayenne coupe today, something seldom seen in these parts. Soon after saw a Q5 coupe, maybe not new but also rare here, CUV coupes are not my most favorite design.

kyfdx

I think Audi does a decent job with it. The Q8 is basically a Q7 Sportback. The Q5 is okay.

BMW and Mercedes, though..

fintail

Q8 is ok to me, but the Q5 has too much MB "coupe" energy, which is adjacent to the X4/X6 (not meant as a compliment).

It's funny how MB and BMW go back and forth. MB has a 4 door "coupe", BMW gets one, BMW makes "coupe" CUV/SUVs, MB follows suit, MB gets sporty while BMW leans into luxury.

fintail

Saw an Escalade IQ, didn't expect that here, pricey thing.

explorerx4

Saw a Tacoma Trailerhunter yesterday.
It's pretty big. Rhought it was a Raptor until is got close.
I was in the Explorer, so the driver knew enough to stay behind me leaving at the traffic lights.

kyfdx

Newish Ferrari convertible. Front engine. Red over tan. Top down.

Don’t see many of those pulling into the local strip center.

ab348

For a relatively small city there are a remarkable number of flex-mobiles here. Lambos, Ferraris, McLarens, and all sorts of G-Class Benzes of course. I guess the tech bros and the high finance types living here do pretty well for themselves. The G-Class is the only one I would want to drive on our potholed roads.

thebean

Saw a matte black G53 today. Hard to tell what year it was since all look similar.

Also a royal blue C8 Vette. I don’t recall seeing that color on a C8 before. It looked darned good.

texases

Saw a red C8 yesterday, off the side of the road in the grass, (rear) hood up...uh oh...

sda

A woman talking on her phone in her black Maybach SUV was tailgating me on I-485 at 75+mph yesterday morning. I thought if I had to tap the brakes it would be a sad time. When she finally passed me, wow that thing has some wide tires. It is quite the beast.

kyfdx

We have a local restaurateur that has that Maybach. It's crazy

gsemike

Starting to see a couple new Muranos around. Man, that thing leaves me cold.

The front looks like something someone would have thought was futuristic 25 years ago

explorerx4

Saw a new Rolls(temp plates). Black with a kind of bright blue interior.
It seemed a long as a Suburban.
Edit: Forgot, a new Bronco Raptor parked almost close enought for me to touch it while I was sitting at an ice cream stand.

laurasdada

Driving to/from the BMW dealer in Hyannis yesterday, I spotted 3 Lucid Airs! As well as a couple of Lambos, and a Ferrari Lusso and an Alfa 4C... on a flatbed.

thebean

That’s the Alfa’s natural habitat.🙂

fintail

I saw one of the Alfa CUVs the other day, moving under its own power.

kyfdx

fintail said:

I saw one of the Alfa CUVs the other day, moving under its own power.

I like those. In theory

fintail

I think I saw a new style Armada - big brick. Also some kind of late model Ferrari, but they all look the same to me anymore and are seldom-seen here.

stickguy

classic Ferraris were so good looking. Timeless and elegant. The new ones, are not.

bhill2

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon (although I don't deny it) beauty has taken a back seat in most cars.

texases

Saw my first Macan EV. $90k-$110k, looked like this:

kyfdx

We saw one when we were in Atlanta, in May. Most of them are colorful.

texases

I wish. The dealer near me has 11, 8 white/silver/grey/black, 2 navy metallic, one kind of a taupe color.

kyfdx

texases said:

I wish. The dealer near me has 11, 8 white/silver/grey/black, 2 navy metallic, one kind of a taupe color.

The EV we saw in Atlanta was a really nice green.

Of course, the gas models are all black, gray and white, mostly

texases

For $13k you can get all kinds of neat colors on the Macan. 'Regular' colors (besides black and white) are a couple of grand.

kyfdx

texases said:

For $13k you can get all kinds of neat colors on the Macan. 'Regular' colors (besides black and white) are a couple of grand.

Ah, we never shopped the EV. Didn't know the paint was that high. (though it was $2900 on the unit we bought)

texases

kyfdx said:

texases said:

For $13k you can get all kinds of neat colors on the Macan. 'Regular' colors (besides black and white) are a couple of grand.

Ah, we never shopped the EV. Didn't know the paint was that high. (though it was $2900 on the unit we bought)

Here's the paint picker off the configurator, the colorful colors live at the bottom:

kyfdx

I think the one we saw was the Green Legends

fintail

stickguy said:

classic Ferraris were so good looking. Timeless and elegant. The new ones, are not.

I am in the same boat. I can ID most of them until maybe the late 'oughts, then it all becomes a jumble as for the most part I just stopped caring. To be fair, I can say the same for Lamborghini and McLaren etc.