Spy Photos you never got to see

[Camino LS6]

cool stuff! Reliable would be familiar to you, I suppose.

One cool thing about Reliable and my car, they shipped it to SLP in the Buick Blackhawk trailer with the Blackhawk!

[Chris_Doane]

I had a good ole fashion stare down with a bunch of Mazda engineers running the Mazdaspeed 6 through its paces. I was on one shoulder of a 6 lane highway and they were stopped on the opposite shoulder. So I grabbed my stanley cup size lens and went back to this semi truck parked behind me. Asked him if I could jump up in his cab to get a higer angle. He said "sure hop on up."

Edited February 24, 2006 by CD/BP

[Camino LS6]

I don't think they like you much. :AH-HA_wink:

[BlkHhr104]

Mazda does a great camo job :AH-HA_wink:

[NOS2006]

Dude! A f@#king Chinese midget mafia! :rotflmao:

Edited February 24, 2006 by NOS2006

[bdc]

Camino's Firehawk pics reminded me of this spy pic of the DTS from 2 years ago:

(yes I took close up pics too    )

How come this one was never published?

[Guest Josh]

How come this one was never published?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Because no one ever bought it lol

[NOS2006]

I would've bought the Chinese mafia one.

[Chris_Doane]

How come this one was never published?

Because no one ever bought it lol

We never sent that particular photo out. No one would've wanted a photo where the car was that small in the photo. We sent out several other up close photos of the DTS itself. A few of those were published, I forget where without looking at the sales report, it was 2 years ago.

Dude! A f@#king Chinese midget mafia! :rotflmao:

Those guys are Japanese brain boy. Edited February 24, 2006 by CD/BP

[BlkHhr104]

The funny thing is im sure they can all fit in that car, does anyone else see another car?

[Guest YellowJacket894]

OK some of you may have actually seen this one, but I still think its funny for the OBSCENE amount of tape they put on this thing.

In case you couldn't tell, that's the Subaru Tribeca.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yikes! Reminds me of that saying -- I have no idea where it came from -- that goes, "Nothing says 'unprofessional job' like wrinkles in duct tape!" (Maybe it's in someone's signature here?) Just one look at the hood screams, "Unprofessional job!"

Ugh... Makes most cars from the trailer park trash sections of America look like Cadillac Sixteens.

Edited February 25, 2006 by YellowJacket894

[NOS2006]

Yikes! Reminds me of that saying -- I have no idea where it came from -- that goes, "Nothing says 'unprofessional job' like wrinkles in duct tape!" (Maybe it's in someone's signature here?) Just one look at the hood screams, "Unprofessional job!"

Ugh... Makes most cars from the trailer park trash sections of America look like Cadillac Sixteens.

That's in our Australian buddy, James', signature.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

That's in our Australian buddy, James', signature.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ha! I thought so.

(Okay, it's nothing to really get excited about.)

Man... I don't know how Doane photographed that rolling 3M factory without some kind of retinal damage.

[NOS2006]

Little did you know.. they were testing a new safety device on that thing where the body gets no damage and bounces off due to all the damn styrofoam on it.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

Wait a sec. This reminds me of something I read in Car & Driver in an old issue from Y2K. They mentioned something about how the new (current) Dodge Ram was going to feature vinyl body panels and how it would "smooth out the ride...except for the excessive wind noise." Something like that.

Maybe I'll dig up the old issue and post what it said. It was pretty stupid...but it sounded positively serious.

[NOS2006]

Hah, what idiots. I hope you find it.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

I think I'll post it here or in another thread tommarow evening.

[Chris_Doane]

The funny thing is im sure they can all fit in that car, does anyone else see another car?

Hahah. No, no, there were 2 other support cars with it. Not quite a clown car situation.

[Cory Wolfe]

Wait a sec. This reminds me of something I read in Car & Driver in an old issue from Y2K. They mentioned something about how the new (current) Dodge Ram was going to feature vinyl body panels and how it would "smooth out the ride...except for the excessive wind noise." Something like that.

Maybe I'll dig up the old issue and post what it said. It was pretty stupid...but it sounded positively serious.

I think I remember that... I'll have to look at my collection.

[Robert Hall]

Back in early '03 I saw 2 completely undisguised Holden Commodores and a Monaro, all with Chevy Lumina badging and LHD and Michigan mfgr plates driving through a Borders parking lot. Wish I had had a camera handy..they must have been in Colorado doing high-altitutude testing for the then-upcoming GTO.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

I think I remember that... I'll have to look at my collection.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I couldn't find it. (Maybe I'll look again later.)

Maybe good ol' BV would post it up here, huh? :AH-HA_wink:

[Chris_Doane]

[NOS2006]

So.. why are his anal beads around the mirror?

[76ChevyTrucker]

to heat sanitize them?

[Chris_Doane]

Tell me o great wielder of the blinding flash (which obviously was blinding this poor fellow), why does Porsche even try to camoflage its vehicles? Do they really think they are going to fool anyone into thinking this is some other car?

People think GM had deranged dentistry in the 1950s. Look at all of those vents. Does a 911 Turbo really need all those vents? Did someone look at  goal tenders mask and think it would look good on a Porsche?

No I think they know they aren't going to fool anyone, but they did do a good job of hiding certain design elements on those prototypes. There are actually a lot of fake panels on those cars. The entire front clip/goalie mask was fake. The side intakes in front of the rear wheels had fake paneling over them. The entire rear wing was fake. The tail lights have fake paneling over them. Just lotsa thin plastic paneling and tape painted to match the body.

So.. why are his anal beads around the mirror?

Eww sNOS. Where did you learn about those?!?

For that record that is a cord from their car-to-car radios hanging from the mirror.

Edited March 17, 2006 by CD/BP

[schuby87]

i saw this car in the summer of 2005, but i couldn't tell what it was untill i saw the pic on the first page of the '07 Edge. I think they are the same car.

2007 Edge??

Number 2

Number 3

[Chris_Doane]

i saw this car in the summer of 2005, but i couldn't tell what it was untill i saw the pic on the first page of the '07 Edge.  I think they are the same car.

2007 Edge??

Number 2

Number 3

That's actually the Lincoln Aviator...er....MKX. But yea, essentially the same car.