Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Hmmm, in a weird way very glad to hear this as it might make the decision a lot easier.

The sound quality is very good, but the hands-free call quality is a dramatic step backwards from my Becker Cascade Pro. I'm likely to swap it for something else sooner rather than later, as it's not really doing it for me. I'll likely end up with the Porsche Classic Communications Manager, but the outputs on that are annoying.

I haven't tried actually but I'll have a go when I get it back from alternator replacement next week and let you know.

Little lunchtime Lotus spot

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Mmmm.

What colour would you like Sir?

Dick cheese pls.

a few years back a mobile car mechanic came to fix* MrsDeths car, arrived in a Lotus Esprit.
I asked if he spent more time fixing that than other peoples cars.
Pretty much was the conclusion.

*not fix, but assess if it was fixable, he didn't carry his toolkit about in his Lotus.

Edit: Lotus is an acronym "Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious" #dadjoke

lovely

Lotus is great, looks absolutely mint condition.

I saw this cool 1957 AC Ace in Brixton this morning, its a Bristol engined one from about 4 years before Shelby decided to drop a V8 in one and create the Cobra.

Had to cancel my appointment at Center Gravity to get the car set up on the new wheels, as they've been delayed a fucking gain. Hopefully they'll be sitting waiting at CG when I get back from la belle France.

Even more reason to be happy to see it being used then.

I kinda like the yellow.

I always loved yellow Corrados and yellow is definitely the best colour Intergrales came in!

This talk of colour has me thinking how I find certain cars/makes look good is some colours and bad in others.

Imo, BMW never look good in signal red* yet Audi do.

*other than the BASF M1 (but this isn’t a stock car).

Only Mercs look good in silver, I think any other make looks better in any other colour (other than red for beemers)

Anyone else think like this or is it just me?

I don't really like any cars in red. Or yellow.

Obvs I respect that red works nicely for some alfas and other more exotic marques

Heh.

Yeah. I wouldn't say no.

Maybe Italian Giallo. B^P

Agree about Bimmers. I just don't like red.

Even on a Ferrari. (Blasphemy)

Only Mercs look good in silver

Contraversial there! Wouldn't have my MX5 in another colour (though if it were a MKI, BRG with tan roof and interior is hard to beat). I actually think the Esprit looks awesome in silver (if a little too much like a DeLorean)

It's only blasphemy if you say they shouldn't be yellow ;)

Thought my opinion might tread on a few toes. Apologies

I just find silver to be the worse colour to show off any lines the car might have?

One of my favourite 80s onward Ferrari’s imo best colour

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Blue is such a dad colour tho', I've always had a thing for silver GTIs...

Achingly pretty. <<<<<< DAd

No need to apologise! Honestly didn't give any consideration to the colour when buying. Personally I generally dislike black for the hiding of lines reason you state (though black with some dull gold wheels & detailing can look wonderful)

I don't have many strong feelings on car colours. Lamborghinis should always be loud, stupid colours. Roadsters generally look great in BRG (or silver, IMO). Imprezas should always be blue, and Lancers red. S2000s are yellow or gun metal grey.

Also, two-tone paint jobs should definitely be more of a thing.

And black painted bonnets that pretend to be carbon can do one.

Yellow (Speed Yellow, to be precise) was the launch colour for the GT3, so I've always quite fancied one. Guards red is the oh-so-80's colour that many 930's wore proudly.

If I could have chosen the colour of my car I'd have picked Porsche Aga Blue, but sadly in the late 90's "resale silver" was extremely popular.

I would have agreed with you until recently although Lamborghini haven’t really floated my boat since I was in primary school but I thought this looked superb in subtle colours

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Gandini nailed the 2 tone straight outta the 'OG' supercar.