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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Seoultrain @ Apr 24th 2008 7:38PM
Subaru's coupe in convertible form?
Yeah, I wish.
Richard @ Apr 24th 2008 7:51PM
I was going to say: the upcoming Toyota-ru
catgirlshyla @ Apr 25th 2008 3:34AM
You mean the next AE86.
BPeredo @ Apr 24th 2008 7:39PM
Peugeot 207 Spider?
http://www.evo.co.uk/news/evonews/203346/peugeot_207_spider.html
Torrent @ Apr 24th 2008 7:40PM
Yeah they look similar.
BPeredo @ Apr 24th 2008 7:47PM
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 @ Apr 24th 2008 7:51PM
It's not the Pug. The grill looks like a smushed Aston nose, not the gaping smile of the 207.
bilbobaggins @ Apr 24th 2008 11:24PM
Excellent guess. I have to agree!
esteva03 @ Apr 24th 2008 7:43PM
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?
Joe Donaldson @ Apr 24th 2008 7:53PM
Some better shots were posted on GTP:
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/006r/webcam6.jpg
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2581/snapshot20080425000948wm9.png
geo.stewart @ Apr 24th 2008 7:56PM
the photobucket shot looks like a modern day caterham
Trent @ Apr 24th 2008 7:59PM
can anyone read that link in the upper left of the photobucket shot? NDBOTIX.com?
Trent @ Apr 24th 2008 8:02PM
nvm, its the camera manufacturer.
PandaBeat @ Apr 24th 2008 8:24PM
That car is a 2001 Veritas RS3 Concept
http://www.supercars.net/cars/1868.html
WHAT DO I WIN???!?
why not the LS2LS7? @ Apr 24th 2008 8:45PM
You win the gratitude of the entire internet.
3seriesisking @ Apr 24th 2008 11:07PM
Panda gets my vote. That looks exactly like it to me. How the heck did you figure that one out????
shadysi @ Apr 25th 2008 12:22AM
@panda...
you win 1000 internets
Matt Noble @ Apr 25th 2008 5:56AM
Give That Man A Medal!
Lewdo @ Apr 24th 2008 7:53PM
The front kinda looks like a TVR Tuscan.
Trent @ Apr 24th 2008 7:56PM
thats what i thought too.... Isn't TVR getting back on its feet?