Spotting thread! Did you see any special cars on the road today?

I'm in Palm Springs, California this week. Really freaky town for throwback architecture, people and cars.

Today's treasure was a 6th generation Cadillac Sedan De Ville in showroom condition.

...I don't even like GM cars and I was quite taken with the sight of this thing. Whole chunks of this town are time capsules from the early 90s.

 

I honestly don't know how else to put it. I certainly haven't met everyone here, but the handful of chatty uber drivers and strangers I've run into really seem like they're from a different time.

 

I'm fresh back from a week of maximum sunshine and minimum responsibility in the Caribbean.

As is typical on little islands, all cars were imports, most of them were tiny and not the same ones available in US or major European markets.

Lots of Toyota Agyas, Honda Citys, Hyundai Grands, the odd Daihatsu Terios or Suzuki Celerio. EVs were represented by a sole Tesla 3, and hybrids repped by a sole Prius c.

Many without pollution controls, or at least with much less than we now depend on in the USA. It definitely smelled like the 1970s when you got near a road.

I rode in a few different cars as taxi services- highlight was probably the Hyundai Staria van. Looked good and gave a fantastic ride. Nice interior too.

I had a ride in a Changan UNI-K SUV. Tough to tell it wasn't an Equinox or CX-50. Now that the big-brand crossovers are so similar, it's pretty easy for anyone else to blend in I guess.

We almost took a ride in a Haval H6 except it failed to start. Beautiful interior, better than most SUVs & crossovers owing to choice of colors and materials. I think it was out of gas, but who knows? We didn't exactly stick around for the result.

Oh and there was a Hyundai H-100 Kei truck that I almost snuck into my luggage. Really fit my idea of a useful truck for an exurb homeowner.