just taking a walk around the neighborhood with my camera.. and yeah... there's no trying to keep up with the neighbors in this neighborhood.

I'm firmly in Accord/Camry/Passat/3-series land. There's a good smattering of higher-end BMWs and Mercedes but nothing much in the way of the italians or the bulk of the Porsche lineup. However if you drive south just a few miles that all changes and there the 5/7-series, E/S-Class, Jag S-type/XJ become the norm, Merc SLs are a dime a dozen, plenty of Porsches to look at, and Ferraris and stuff are no longer rare (although they're hardly EVERYWHERE).

Diesel where in So cal are you?

Im now in a land of rich OC kids and their BMW, Benz's, and riced out civics and integras.

Just Priuses here.

I dont want to sound rude, but if you still live in your parents house, there is no keeping up with the Joneses. Aspiring to have what your parents and their peers have at a young age is not reality.

I'm firmly in minivan and rusted out Pontiac territory.

There is a 350Z (although it's gold) down the lane, and a local business owner drives his 80's era Aston Martin V8 to work....that's all.

i'm by South Coast Plaza

I live on campus currently, but walking out to the student parking will give you a full on assault of German, British, and Italian pornography with quite a few 'Vettes mixed in for kicks. It's all a bit ridiculous to be honest.

Like in Costa Mesa?

Then you're kinda near me...I'm in Irvine.

Neighborhood new cars...

Two new 2008 Mercedes C Class sedans, a 2008 Acura MDX and Acura TSX, A 2008 4 door Jeep Wrangler and a Harley Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle.

The next newest cars in the neighborhood are my Wife's 2007 Ford Edge and my 2006 Mustang GT ( I have a whopping 9,128 miles on her to date)

He's actually technically in Santa Ana, believe it or not.

Diesel's neighborhood looks like the epicenter of overextended, foul loans All those people, can't afford their homes, nor their leased exotics. I am willing to bet that if you got on and looked at REO properties in that neighborhood that a number of those homes would be owned by the bank.

Or they could be rich... *shrug* Last time I drove in that neighborhood, I didn't see any for sale signs or anything..

One neighbor has a audi TT. but thats about it as far as exciting goes. Most of them are just trucks and people haulers.

I live in a pretty middle class neighborhood. Your Accords and Camrys and one off 350Z. There is one guy with 2 300ZX though. They are badass.

That's still not too far. I fly out of John Wayne which is like...10 minutes away.

Around here it is the mostly the usual garbage asian imports and domestics. One of our neighbor has a house 2 houses down the street as a weekend house, they drive a Cayenne S. My one friend who lives a mile or two out, his parents have 911, come C class AMG, and a new Tahoe, he claims to have seen a few Ferraris around but I have not been able to confirm this. Funny enough,, today I saw a blue Maserati, a first for me around here. Nothing to fancy here at college though, nicest I've seen has been a prev-generation TT and a new BMW, a 3 series if I recall correctly..

I live in Alabama, but there's still an SLR Mclaren (and 3 Maseratis) on my street. The street one down has a Bentley Continental and a Lamborghini Diablo. New Ferraris are still pretty rare though.

Outside of a red Lightning the rest is all garbage not worth mentioning.

Nice nieghborhood Diesel!

There's quite a nice selection in my nieghborhood, but because my area is located on a hill, its hard to ever see the cars parked on the driveways because the driveway is too steep or the driveway slopes down. There's the abundance of BMW's, Audi's Porsche Cayenne's and Carrera's, but theres also a few Lamborghini Murcielago's, a Carrera GT, Ferrari F40, DeTomaso Pantera and a 993 Porsche Turbo S. I've also seen a 599 GTB.

this is so godfucking unbeleivably irrelevant. If you want the thread title changed to "nice cars in my neighborhood which I don't actually aspire to own because I'm too young to realistically want nice things" I'm sure a moderator would be happy to change it for you. Where do you even begin to get off telling people they shouldn't be hoping to be successful. The American dream is fueled by the unobtainable. And besides you completely missing the entire point if the post, the only way you're keeping up with the joneses is if your neighbors are as big of asshole naysayers as you are

Holy Crap Diesel, that's a pretty banging looking neighbourhood. And some nice cars there. That Maser is one helluva awesome car. Beautiful drive, and beautiful sounding exhaust note.

In my old area (just moved on the weekend), there were plenty nice cars. A whole bunch of oldschool American muscle (Mustangs, Chargers, Firebirds, etc) which might be common over there in the US, but trust me, seeing them bad boys here is pretty thrilling. Also there arw tons of high end Mercs (S65s, SLs, CLKs, etc) real nice stuff. Also high end beemers and Audis, and the occasional exotic).

That area of yours looks like it suites the exotics though, my area doesnt.

Lets see...fancy cars I've seen around here more than once: M6, M5, M3s, various AMG vehicles (don't pay much attention), Caymans (s or not), Carerras, a modified C4s, 911 Turbo, really really modified TT, V10 TDI Touareg, 612 Scaglietti, Murcielago, Countach w/ huge spoiler, Quattroporte... That's all I can think of now. Many are owned by college students.

Hey PD,

My brother knows a wanna be gangster in Montreal who is apparently selling off his car collection cheap as chips (presumably to give him something liquid to go on the run with). My brother knows absolutely nothing about cars, so I take everything with a grain of salt, but there are newer Porsches up for grabs, cheap...like $25,000 cheap.

My brother isn't involved with this kinda crap, but he loves clubbing, which is presumably how he knows this guy.

Yeah there are many unsuspecting parts of OC that are technically named Santa Ana.. He's borderline South Coast Metro/Santa Ana, but his address is Santa Ana.. I wouldn't want to venture off north of where he is though... starts to get really crappy.




Oh and redls1bird, are you assuming that Diesel lives with his parents?

Have you ever taken a reading comprehension test? Did you pass?

What i was pointing out was that for a person of diesels age to talk about keeping up with the peers of his parents, is silly. If most 18-20 year olds would post up their neighbor hood cars after they moved out, and have no assitance from their parents, the lists would read like a page straight out of a 1989 auto trader.

More importantly, why do you even care what I think?

You two are both being idiots.
Back on topic that 360 looks fantastic, the best I have in my street is a Focus ST 170 and a red Miata with ferrari badging on it...

Damn. Nice cars in that neighborhood.

Most stuff around me is boring ( Buicks and Camries and Tahoes, oh my! ). Though I've spied two Lamborghinis (couldn't tell what model), one Bentley Continental Flying Spur (one of our clients), and a 911 GT3 RS. In my neighborhood specifically, the coolest car is an old MG one of my neighbors has. The second coolest car is probably my Jetta. No joke.

Most of the loaded people here in southern Oregon favor CLSs and larger Lexii. This isn't really a performance car area (for the people who are loaded), which is a shame. Not once have I ever seen an E90/E92 M3 in person, for example (I know the Californians will be blown away by that).

Of the neighbors within 10 houses of mine- a minty 944, a Ford Model T, a minty late 80s SVO mustang, 60's lincoln continental, Corvette, Typhoon GMC, and a Scirocco .

The american cars are all by the same owner... with whom I havent spoken to yet... even after living here for almost 7 years. hmm.

Because diesel is 35 yrs old. And what i was pointing out is the thread is just about nice cars in your neighborhood, "keeping up with the jonses" is just a clever little joke he posted. Did you read my post? No one here is doing anything but appreciating nice cars.

thank you 350z, your opinion was both useful and nesicarry

Oh yeah I haven't been up there. I've only been in Irvine and Long Beach because I don't have my car with me.

I just want to know how you came about these things:

1. That Diesel lives with his parents
2. That he's 18-20
3. That you post things on a public forum, yet when someone argues with you, you pull the "why do you care" card.

he has an ls1, which instantly makes him god.
duh.

1. i don't live with my parents.
2. i'm not 18-20
3. i am in NO WAY trying to "keep up with the joneses". I'm broke as fuck.
4. I only rent a room in one of those "houses". I can't even imagine having enough money to buy one of these.

Hm.. in my neighbourhood we've got the following:

Mercedes SLK55AMG
Mercedes E63AMG
Mercedes S-Class
Citroen C6
Alfa Romeo Brera
Honda Accord TypeS
Renaultsport Clio

Nothing spectacular by any means..

One guy makes our neighborhood look pretty awesome
In one garage: Aston Martin DBS, Carerra GT, Bently Flying Spur, Land Rover

Others:
Aston Martin Vanquish
a bunch of Prius
a few Lexus
Infiniti
VW

there is a F360 with tubi pipes and a CLS55 in my neighborhood.
both owned by the same person.

Nothing spectacular? Unless you happen to live in Dubai or Monaco...that's a pretty good bunch.

I guess I might as well add my parents neigborhood to the mix. Any premium or large SUV is fairly popular, no exceptions, there's even a couple R-classes. There's quite a few roadsters, luxury sedans, lots of premium brand stuff...but the real interesting stuff...
- brand new M3
- Alpina B7
- M635CSi

Thats a really good question. To be honest, I really dont know why i thought that diesel was younger, and lived at home. I think part of it was the Scion, then getting the car from the brother. I assumed that he nicer car came from an older brother, making him seem younger. Also, it seems a lot of the people on these boards are younger (early twenties). The living at home thing came from the "post your room thread" not that long ago. I assumed someone with only a room to post was still at home.

I didnt mean to piss anyone off, or offend diesel. I still believe in my statement, though, its much, much less relevant now.

Your behind the times on god.

LS1 = old god

LS9 = new god

You're behind the times on sarcasm.

No, i realized it was sarcasm, but i just didnt care.

eh in east TN theres some nice stuff around, you just have to know where to look and know the right people

Well if ever i'm interested in purchasing a post-drug dealer automobile i'll be sure to ask you