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Auto Loud - May 2010

I am your car Luke!

May 29th 2010 13:17
Autoloud does not like modern Maybachs. No matter how you look at them they are U-G-L-Y! As a Limo they are supposed to offer the ultimate in automotive luxury, the reality is they are no more than a much stretched very pimped out Mercedes Benz S Class.

Maybach Exelero


The only interesting Maybach of recent times was the Exelero. This huge two door car which resembled a mechanised Darth Vader (I am your car Luke!) was swathed in menacing black and built as a high speed test car for a tyre manufacturer. They only ever built one and Maybach sold it for a very cool $8 Million!


If you missed out on the one and only Exelero or perhaps it was a little rich for your tastes when it was sold, then it is time to get out the cheque book as a company in Switzerland can now make your dreams come true with a replica of the Exelero.

Maybach Exelero


Destined to be built on the Dodge Viper platform, the big coupe features the Viper’s 8.3-liter V10 and a set of 23-inch wheels. Each replica will be made to order to the buyer's specifications and the price is a whistle inducing €550,000!

Autoloud can only hope that the company adopt the old Henry Ford maxim: “Any colour you like as long as it’s black!” The thought of one in two tone white and beige as favoured by many Maybach buyers is just too much!

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Best of British

May 13th 2010 11:47
Over the last couple of weeks a couple of very interesting cars have crossed the path of Autoloud.

These of course are old cars otherwise they would not be interesting!

How about a Mk II Jaguar! Admittedly it was a bottom of the range 2.4 litre, but still one of Jaguars finest in any terms. This manual gearbox car had received a very unsympathetic paint job which bordered on a shade of very unflattering Purple. The interior was much nicer in Dark Blue with the traditional and correct wood trim.



This is a car that Autoloud has lusted after for years. Blame a childhood trip to a distant relative who just happened to own a Mk II sedan finished in bright red. With black leather interior and optioned with a set of wire wheels and a fold back sunroof this bordered on the ultimate specification. A car like this would cost you and me many thousands of dollars as opposed the 2.4 which have emptied your bank account to the tune of $ 7600. Not too bad for a driveable useable MkII!

The other car also came for the stable of British Leyland although of much humbler origins. An Australian spec Morris 1100 resplendent in a shade that can only be called Algae green! BMC were much kinder and called it Moss green – alas no relation to the race driver of the period - now this not a car you would normally lust after but a little lateral thinking it could be!

Morris 1300


A white roof, bonnet stripes, a brace of spotlights across the nose and a period set of minilite replicas plus a nicely tuned 1275cc engine would have this Morris menacing in a Cooper S kind of way!
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