EXHAUST PIPE DREAMS: September 2012

Friday, September 14, 2012

Hamilton-Scotts apartments with 'sky garage'.

Warning: This will blow your mind.

If you're like me (but had money), you'd buy a home so you can appreciate your stable of thoroughbreds and classics at any time. Luckily these apartments are now for sale in Singapore where you can do just that. Check out the apartment building here, and watch the video below to see how the garage system works.

Buy the actual "Quantum of Solace" Aston Martin and more.

Knock yourself out (by clicking here).

Mini Horn Concerto

Thanks to connoisseur of fine things Eve Vince for sending this in.

One Direction's Harry Styles

For those of you above the age of 19, One Direction is the biggest boy band to come out of Great Britain since The Beatles. So that puts it in perspective for you. Now moving on, the cheeky leader of the pack is Harry, the one who has bagged a string of much older ladies and who seems to have some pretty good taste in motors. Read about his test-driving here.

My research leads me to believe it's this car currently for sale at £109k through William Loughran.

Just last week I posted on a Porsche 911 Super Classic which I spotted. I could only walk by, lust after it and take a couple of photos. But here's Harry the scamp test-driving one below:

via The Daily Mail / The Sun

Ollie Locke's XK8 Jaguar

Those with good memories may remember a post I wrote about Ollie Locke's XK Jaguar. Ollie is the formerly-long-haired special case on the TV series Made in Chelsea. I was walking up Charing Cross road this morning in London and he drove past. I thought, gosh I would have loved to have taken a photo of that. I took my phone out of my pocket just to be on the safe side and I saw it again a couple of minutes later in Chinatown. And to add to my car-star spot for this morning, Ollie's co-star Francesca Hull was in the passenger seat. Get the background story on him buying (and defacing a perfectly good XK8) here.

The Union Jack clad XK:

Ollie Locke:

Francesca Hull:

McLaren MP4-12C in London

Parked near my work in London's West End was this Mclaren MP4-12C.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it. It looks like a kit car from the 90s. The curves, generic lights, old Honda/Mitsubishi looking tail. I don't know...it just looks so dated in the same line-up as Ferrari and Lamborghini.

GT40, Aston Martin and Rolls Royce in London.

Only in Knightsbridge would you see this traffic jam. Susannah and I were walking our Great Dane Charlie in Hyde Park last weekend and saw this scene. It was just by chance that as I went to take a photo a big fat phantom rolled on by.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Spotted: Porsche 911 Super Classic

This Porsche 911 "Super Classic" was parked outside work today at lunch. The paint has to be seen in real life to be fully appreciated. It's like a high-gloss dirty white. I would never have picked it from a colour palette but it certainly does look good with the black Fuchs wheels. Read all about the Super Classic here with Top Gear.

Sir Alan Sugar's Rolls Royce

Yesterday afternoon I spotted Alan Sugar's Rolls Royce on Charlotte St in London's West End. I was surprised because while I know his personalised AMS I number-plate (standing for Alan Michael Sugar, just like his company Amstrad also started with his initials AMS), I'm more accustomed to spotting this plate on his Phantom. Well you wouldn't believe it, the big man has gone and DOWN-GRADED from a Phantom to a Ghost. I wonder why? Maybe it's for nipping 'round in London traffic.

So here's his new Ghost with his chauffeur waiting which I saw yesterday. Yep, I went all paparazzo on it.

And here's his previous car, a Phantom which used to sport these plates. He could still own it, but then I don't understand why he'd put his trademark licence plates on the Ghost.