No photo because the one I took with my smartphone was terrible (it was at night) but I've seen a Hongqi in town ! It was an e-HS9, an electric luxury SUV that looks nice from the back but horrible from the front.

https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/hedinautomotive-nl/04/hondqi-page-image-14-1.png

There is a distributor for Belgium (or maybe just Flanders, given the location of their three dealerships), and the prices start at 70.000 €. Good luck to them.

I already made a post about it back in 2022:

https://imcdb.opencommunity.be/forum_topic-3327-81469-interestingfunnyspecial_cars_sightings.html#p81469

They sell reasonably well in Norway. Yesterday I saw a white one as a taxi. In addition to the e-HS9, we also have the Voyah Free, BYD Tang and the NIO ES8 in the large electric SUV segment.

I notice that the Scorpio and Punto have been scrapped since I made that post what the hell is wrong with people...

Took this a while back:

Yeah, it's a replica, but it's not the worst I have seen.

I took a picture of the X1/9 behind it, too - but the driver stared at me so I left it at the cutting room floor.

seen yesterday : Audi SQ8 and Lamborghini Urus , both in the same grocery store parking lot , a few spaces from each other

Seen yesterday afternoon: a BMW i8.

Spotted these 2 beauties at London

1997 SAAB 9000 CSE (For chicomarx )


2016 Dodge Challenger

Hellcat.. here kitty kitty..


seen today : 1990-1992 Mazda 626 .. so nice and clean, it felt like going back in time..

We had a few of them in our family. My dad had several in a row as a company car, and my grandfather bought the burgundy 1990 626, and my brother bought the green 1992. Then my dad had a bunch of GE and GF versions before he switched over to VW Passats/CCs.

Thanks UKBoy! Nice 9000, no rust, just the little headlamp wiper motors stuck in a random position. Made by Bosch in Belgium. I blame the German engineering though.

Nice spec B3, thanks a lot John! I think I've spotted only one pre-A* Audi model (a 100 C4 saloon) in the UK when visiting my wife so far. They must keep them nice and warm in the garages!

Speaking of Audi, , seen pretty much every time i get gas ( pic is from 2022 but still was there a few days ago ). I already took a pic of it a long time ago

A couple of recent finds:
1996 Ford Mondeo SW 1.8 16V, these used to be very, very common but now they've become rather scarce, especially Mk1s:



1989 Renault 21 1.7 GTS Logos, an example never seen before and in excellent shape, with only 67.000 km registered at last inspection:


Before this one I hadn't seen an R21 in at least 3 years.

Saw an orange McLaren P1 with a Michigan licence plate on my way back home from the store with my mom earlier.

Saw a 2011 Tesla Roadster here in Australia recently. Apparently, only 18 exist in the country. This one was built in the UK, according to the VIN.

it, color included..

i think they were all built in UK , in the same place where they built the Lotus Elise

oops, my bad , looks like some were built in US too

Today while out for a walk, 1981-83 Golf I inmidst an overgrown meadow backlot of worthless late 90s clunkers, still in good condition as far as I could see Really taken aback at the sight of one in a junkyard and...I think a Matra Rancho a few numbers down??

EDIT: I found the location and was right!




Not only that, there's another on the other side with two Murenas and Rootes-crap!


The Golf was still there two years ago, this is the best view I can get of it on StreetView:

With the Espace, it seems to be a Matra collection


90s cars are now more than 20 years old (1990 was 34 years ago !), some start being collectibles (and will disappear fast, like some of the 80s)

2 Matra Murenas beside the white Espace - lots of bonus points for them.

^As I mentioned

The coherence between them does seem to indicate he does have some sort of affinity for them. Hopefully if these are not restoration objects, at least donor cars