What's the MOST Exotic, or Expensive, Vehicle...

Off and on from work a few months ago,I saw a couple of NSX's. One day I saw a black one and on another time a yellow one. A year or so ago I was passed by a Lamborghini Countach when I was on the north side of Columbus. I think I remember seeing a Ferrari up there on the freeway another time,one of the 308 models like from TV show Magnum.

 

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Most expensive car I've seen on the road is a Maybach 57 ($325k). It was parked on the street, across from the building I work in. Funny thing, Mercedes thought these would sell to Fortune 500 CEOs, and instead they were bought up by NBA players and rap artists.

 

I've seen various ferrari's, lamborghini's..etc.

I think the most interesting one I've seen though was the Lamborghini Diablo. I was behind it and was amazed at what a huge nice person it had Traffic opened up in front of us and he was gone in a second.

 

The most exotic vehicle I've seen on the road recently was about 3 weeks ago in Westminster: a DeLorean.

The only other time I've seen one was in Back to the Future. I didn't think it really was one at first, just resembled one, until I got right behind at a red traffic signal and saw the badges on the rear to confirm that it was indeed a DeLorean.

 

Do you know if they were doing any time travelling, or just driving around locally?

 

Yeah, I saw one of those once about 8 years ago, just pulled up right next to me at Pizza Hut. Took a double take on that one!

 

I thought most cities had their share of pricey cars, but maybe Vancouver is different. On a nice day in the spendy trendy places, I see all sorts of cool cars: Lotus Esprit, Ferraris, Lambos, Porsche, Mercedes (not necessarily in that order). There's a deLorean in the local car show every year, along with many rare oldies like a Bricklin and a 1926 Essex. I heard a rumour there was a road going Porsche 917 in town, but I've yet to see it.

As an aside, I've noticed that exotic cars tend not to be driven by exotic people. The best looking women tend to drive beaters, and the best looking cars tend to be driven by old fat guys. It's another one of life's little ironies.

 

I work in the northern part of Palm Beach County, and live right across the intracoastal from Jupiter Island (the richest town per capita in the world), so I get to see all kinds of fun toys, especially "on season". I never knew what an Aston Martin DB7 was until I got behind one a few months ago at a light, and had to look it up on the internet. My wife finds it amusing that she came out from the Kmart, to get in her 3000GT that she always parks away from everyone else, to find a newish Rolls Royce parked next to it! I've seen many different models of Ferraris, including an Enzo and a few old ones, like on Ferris Bueler, Lamborghini's, Bentleys, Maybach, lots of NSX's, REAL Cobra GT's, all sorts of nice Mercedes AMG models (sweet!), BMW series that I've never even heard of, etc. When I moved here, my boss told me "Lexus here is like Chevrolet", and he was right. Its a VERY upscale car area.

 

Not sure...it was on surface streets and they were doing a max. of about 35mph; not nearly fast enough to do any sort of time travel. I didn't stick around to see if they got on the freeway though.

 

I've seen some Ferraris and Lambos on the road (not sure which models though) but no Ferrari Enzos.

I think the most expensive car I've seen on the road was a Porsche Carrera GT which run ~$440K. I was on 880 on my way back from the DMV in my Z when I saw one of those come up behind me. I moved over a lane and gave the guy a thumbs up. He waved back.

As for Deloreans, in my old group at work when I was up in WA, there was one usually in our parking lot. At my work in the Bay Area (same company, different location and group), we also sometimes have a Delorean. There's no flux capacitor in either one AFAIK.

 

A guy had a 300SL Gullwing I'd see about once a week. Later sold for around $5000. The Ford dealer had Cobras for $5000 and a street GT 40 for a little over $10,000 on the showroom floor. This was in Florida in 1967. You didn't specify when!

 

I didn't see this one, but a friend did and it freaked him out.
Porsche 917.
He was behind it on an on ramp, he said it went down the ramp-onto the freeway and disappeard from his site in total of about 4 seconds