nice
and i say Elise:thumbup:


Bobby:hump:

 

nice pics, tnx for sharing!

 

Now for the Ugly Re-designed Focus (looks like a old Prius (EW))

NOW FOR MY BABY!!!!!!!!!!

So, i'm in the market of buying a new car after I'm done with college

I'm looking at these options:

Lotus Elise or Exige
Infiniti G35 Coupe
Ariel Atom 2

and a toy:

1973 Plymouth Roadrunner
Ducati 640 Monster

OMG i was trying to give the new focus a chance, but those are the first pictures i have seen that let you really see the proportions of the "new car". WOW is that Ugly is all i have to say. IT looks like the fender lines and such match the current focus exactally, they just changed the creases in the body work. Everything look like the just beat the car with an ugly stick, just to make the thing look different than it was. Also the fit and finish on the display modle looks BAD. I was hopeing it was just the front was a bad shot, but it appears all the press photos were just really GOOD shots of the rest of the car...

as for the ariel atom 2, isn't that more under the "toy" catagory? :lol:

 

OMG i was trying to give the new focus a chance, but those are the first pictures i have seen that let you really see the proportions of the "new car". WOW is that Ugly is all i have to say. IT looks like the fender lines and such match the current focus exactally, they just changed the creases in the body work. Everything look like the just beat the car with an ugly stick, just to make the thing look different than it was. Also the fit and finish on the display modle looks BAD. I was hopeing it was just the front was a bad shot, but it appears all the press photos were just really GOOD shots of the rest of the car...

as for the ariel atom 2, isn't that more under the "toy" catagory? :lol:

I don't consider the Atom a toy

 

the atom and the blue car underneath it plus the lotus where the best cars in all those pics

 

the Atom will rip your face off... The New Focus looks like a cheap rip-off

 

the Atom will rip your face off... The New Focus looks like a cheap rip-off

thats what i'm hoping for after watching Clarkson's face get ripped off haha

the new Focus was not impressive

the interior was nice, although I couldn't get close enough to get a good picture

i want to apologize for my photography, but the auto show was packed, and it was hard to take pics when people get in your way about five times per car....

the only part of the new focus i like is the quarter panel windows

 

I don't consider the Atom a toy

well it is not exactally a daily driver.

 

I was at the PDX show yesterday; pretty decent autoshow for a mid-sized major US city. Then again, for the last four years I've been going to the Chicago show, which spoiled me. Then again, it was much easier to see stuff in Portland.

 

Those pics make it look easily better than the Seattle Auto Show last November. Glad to see that silver R8 is out of hiding. Was the red TT there with it.

 

Wow, so the Bronco concept is still making the show rounds.....

Yeah, Ariel Atom is more of a track weapon than a toy. But its definitely no street car, though it is street legal in England hehe.

 

i didn't see the TT

 

soy, thanks for taking the pics

as for a lotus elise or exige, go for the Exige, hardtop rules!

 

Those pics make it look easily better than the Seattle Auto Show last November. Glad to see that silver R8 is out of hiding. Was the red TT there with it.

Seattle show is ridiculously bad. More like a multi-marque new car lot. It occurs late in the year ahead of the NAIAS and other signifcant shows, so all the good stuff is being held back. I didn't attend the Portland show, but the Audi guys were gaga over the R8. Here's a pic of the TT vert:

http://www.pifiu.com/vortex/uploads/2007-jan/DSC00440reduced.jpg (oversized)

Don't know if the coupe was anywhere to be found...

BTW: That Atom is owned by one of the local Seattle-area audiworld.com regulars (also owns a pile of other nice cars, including a very fast B5 S4). Another local Audiworld.com acquaintance owns a detail shop that does all the Atom-owner's vehicles. He's got some intersting stuff.

 

those pics of the focus just closed the deal with me and thoughts of ever buying another focus.......sorry ford.....

great pics none the less.


dave.