Given the price of these puppies, they had better make them fly someday soon...
(Specially for Rob, some vertigo-inducing straightening going on in this shot.)
Beautiful cars, with a single, fatal flaw: so damned difficult to distinguish between the SL and the SLK, especially in silver! Imagine having bought the larger version and having the neighbours think it the other… better investment is the Rolex, as we’ve decided a while back; you can even take it to bed with you but, I suppose, you might just have problems trying that with the merry Merc. My sister-in-law has a silver SLK with the AMG bits… ;-(
The white(ish) Bentley I shot the other day was not far away from an SL6.5AMG in white with ugly black inserts all over the place. It looked terrible to me: cheap as dirt and with the charm of home-made. Didn't even feel obliged/inclined to cellpix it!
In the league of expensive cars, I thing Porsche has it about right with the Cayman. Not too big, very pretty and not inclined to attract hatred (at any rate, not mine). I wouldn’t dream of owning a Ferrari, Lambo, Massy, Aston M. or any of those things. I would like a GT version of the Mustang, though; our resident car snapper Haef. had a shot here of one in a very appealing red paint-job a while back – Sheeley or something like that? Looked practical as well as good. Nice.
Until then, I’ll keep playing with the Fiesta in the comfortable illusion that it is, at least, a junior member of the same family… with the bits and pieces I’m slowly sticking on it, it’ll soon weigh about as much! Power to weight ratio? What’s that?
;-)
Rob C