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Spied on the Nuerburgring: You tell us
Wednesday, I was surfing the Internets on my iPhone, checking all my usual sites, one of which is the Nuerburgring Web cam. Usually I either get pictures of an empty staging area or darkness. But this time I got the photo you see above. And, yes, we realize the quality isn't that great. I had to take a picture of my iPhone's screen since it's incapable of sending or downloading photos from the Net. But maybe that will be fixed in June.
Various Autoblog team members have taken guesses at what this mystery car might be, but we can't definitively pin it down. Someone guessed the Gumpert Apollo Hybrid. Another guess was a Le Mans prototype of some sort. I'm not convinced it's either.
So we present this Web cam mystery to our readers. Anyone have any clue what this might be? Click on the photo for a larger (yet no less blurry) photo.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Seoultrain 7:38PM (4/24/2008)
Subaru's coupe in convertible form?
Yeah, I wish.
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Richard 7:51PM (4/24/2008)
I was going to say: the upcoming Toyota-ru
catgirlshyla 3:34AM (4/25/2008)
You mean the next AE86.
BPeredo 7:39PM (4/24/2008)
Peugeot 207 Spider?
http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/203346/peugeot_207_spider.html
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Torrent 7:40PM (4/24/2008)
Yeah they look similar.
BPeredo 7:47PM (4/24/2008)
Now that I look at it more closely, the rear doesn't convince me that it's the Peugeot. Of course, the link I provided was a concept from 2006, so who knows?
Conor 7:51PM (4/24/2008)
It's not the Pug. The grill looks like a smushed Aston nose, not the gaping smile of the 207.
bilbobaggins 11:24PM (4/24/2008)
Excellent guess. I have to agree!
esteva03 7:43PM (4/24/2008)
it looks like a chopped top viper...with a shorter nose...i mean, no fender height on either side and the wheels have the kinda same proportions... i dunno, im brainstorming. no windshield and a atreamed back to fit a healmented driver...race car proto? im done brainstorming...any new chevi "mistery desapearing" car comertial?
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Joe Donaldson 7:53PM (4/24/2008)
Some better shots were posted on GTP:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/006r/webcam6.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2581/snapshot20080425000948wm9.png
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geo.stewart 7:56PM (4/24/2008)
the photobucket shot looks like a modern day caterham
Trent 7:59PM (4/24/2008)
can anyone read that link in the upper left of the photobucket shot? NDBOTIX.com?
Trent 8:02PM (4/24/2008)
nvm, its the camera manufacturer.
PandaBeat 8:24PM (4/24/2008)
That car is a 2001 Veritas RS3 Concept
http://www.supercars.net/cars/1868.html
WHAT DO I WIN???!?
why not the LS2LS7? 8:45PM (4/24/2008)
You win the gratitude of the entire internet.
3seriesisking 11:07PM (4/24/2008)
Panda gets my vote. That looks exactly like it to me. How the heck did you figure that one out????
shadysi 12:22AM (4/25/2008)
@panda...
you win 1000 internets
Matt Noble 5:56AM (4/25/2008)
Give That Man A Medal!
Lewdo 7:53PM (4/24/2008)
The front kinda looks like a TVR Tuscan.
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Trent 7:56PM (4/24/2008)
thats what i thought too.... Isn't TVR getting back on its feet?