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I think it’s the heat signatures of the town of survivors that the prison warden mentioned to Karl Cowperthwaite just before Karl killed him.

Yeah, I understand all that. It’s not like I take photos with a proper digital camera (and even film cameras) at classic car events primarily because I want to use this particular app, it’s more like I already have thousands of car photos on an external hard drive and it would be nice if a car-identifying app could be

Because I don’t have a smartphone.

I’ll assume that they’ll add 20th century cars later on. My main peeve is that this seems to be a Smartphone/tablet only, with no PC version or Web interface, for those of us who snap lots of pictures at car shows with “old-fashioned” digital cameras and upload them to our laptops via SD cards like it’s the dark ages

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The “adaptive road markings” (via LEDs) would be practically invisible in daytime and not nearly as visible as “headlights on old-fashioned paint” at night because they’d be viewed at an acute angle rather than head on.

Hmm, interesting. I didn’t do the math, that was just a guesstimate. I thought it looked a little too big for 1:64 so I’m surprised that it’s just a hair smaller (although probably closer to the “official” Hot Wheels scale than a lot of other regular mainline Hot Wheels actually are).

I take it that this doesn’t legally count as a “commercial” because including all those characters would otherwise have been a licensing nightmare.

Ha ha, but Porsche was legitimately in the first 3 Forza Motorsports games pre-DLC plus Project Gotham Racing 1 & 2 before EA got a little more stingy with the Porsche sublicense fee.

The Mondial would be my first cheap Ferrari choice. I could also go for a 456 but the only one listed on eBay right now seems to be at $74K, which is disappointing because I thought the 456 was another sub-$40K “supercar”. (It’s blue, which is the colour I think the 456 wears best; it somehow doesn’t look right in

If you want more Hot Wheels Ferraris to add to your collection without spending too much on eBay, try thrift stores especially if you have one of the big chains like Savers/Value Village or Goodwill where you are. Also flea markets.

2 ways Hot Wheels could conceivably sell new Ferrari cars (before whenever it is that the current May Cheong license expires):

Ah, seeing the 458 Italia and the P4 in the photo makes me nostalgic for the
relative “glory days” of 2010 (when the cars seen in the picture were released), back when Hot Wheels still had the Ferrari license (which Mattel lost to May Cheong, the owners of Maisto and Bburago, at the end of 2014).

The Spy Who Loved Me Lotus Esprit is certainly the more iconic of the Bond Lotuses, but I honestly prefer the copper-ish one from For Your Eyes Only just for visual appeal even if that one doesn’t also turn into a submarine.

I dunno, I turned 42 last Sunday and I’m just as much of a (last gen) handheld player as I am a (last gen and earlier) console player. Then again, I don’t own a car and take the bus a lot, although I also play handhelds at home.

Are there any Dragonball cars that are hard to identify, though? I mean, maybe the exact model year of the Mercedes-Benz in the third pic might be up for debate, but I can at least tell which makes/marques all those cars are supposed to be.

Good thing traffic in China seems to exist in perfectly straight and even lines, just like everywhere else in the real world.

Not technically “Cars & Coffee”, but we have a big weekly classic car meetup in the Ottawa area called Kanata Cruise Night. Here are a few recent photos I’ve taken.

Do going to classic car events count as carspotting?

I think the Mondial looks cool, in an underdog Ferrari kind of way.

Wait, Montreal has the third-largest rapid transit system in North America, behind only New York and Mexico City?