Sunday, 15 July 2007

J-J-Jaded so Jaded

...and London you were the one that Jaded me.

Yes, I've been jaded in my car spotting endeavors while in London. Yesterday totally ruined it for me, I actually stopped caring about seeing Ferrari 360 Modena's and Aston Martin V8 Vantages, both are extremely uncommon in Michigan. I believe I lost count after 20 360's...yes I saw over 20 of the same Ferrari yesterday while walking about London.

Lets just look at some of the more interest spots of yesterday shall we? This actually gives me an excuse to figure out the picture posting on blogger.

An Aston Martin Vanquish V12, a $280,000 car back in the states and this one was parked in front of a run of the mill flat near the South Kensington Underground Station. The sad, ok well not sad I was jumping for joy when I saw them, part is that I saw 3 more of these after spotting this one. I mean come on, this is a bit to easy for me.


A Rolls Royce Phantom, a $333,350 car in the states, not to mention you'll probably never see one no matter how hard you look for one in the southeast lower Michigan area. This one was just sitting outside a street vendor selling paintings on Piccadilly road near Green Park. Once again I think I saw probably 5 of these yesterday alone, not to mention the others I saw in past trips to London.
I think this is the most ridiculous of them all though, now this is a list of cars over $100,000 and they were all parked in the same area...the Dorchester Hotel. Before I begin explaining the cares here, let me tell you about this hotel. Rooms start, yes start, at £285 for the smallest room with one bed during a weekday and go all the way up to a mere £2,935 on a weekend for a double. Needless to say I was there on a weekend. Just to put this into perspective for a resident of the United States, the citizens of the country with the worst exchange rate in the world, a night in this hotel would cost you $5,968.97. That's mind boggling.

Now that I've wowed you with the most expensive hotel I've ever seen, I'll show you the caliber of cars these people drive...errr rather have driven for them. Lets start with a photo shall we?


You can ignore the Chrysler Town & Country MPV sitting outside, I'm guessing maybe it was some poor family that thought they could stay there.

But on to the cars:

- A Maybach 62, $386,500 starting price, this is before you put things like electric closing shades in the back.
- Another Rolls Royce Phantom, as stated earlier $333,350.
- BMW 760Li, not overly impressive but still comes in at $122,600.
- Ferrari 355 Spider, $133,075 when new back in 1997.
- Mercedes S600, $127,950
- Porsche 911 GT3, $106,000

Total Worth: $1,209,475

As you can see, I'm j-j-jaded.

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