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Here’s that same Porsche 944 slipping and sliding in the dirt!

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Ends of a spectrum: 944 and RX-7. Moments later, he saw the Porsche sounding like a boxer engine running up that course!

A silver Porsche 944 modified with rally lights and a flat bottom

A red RX-7 FB with dual carbs looking like the world’s best approximation of a Stratos! It looks amazing with gold wheels

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My US friend is at Lake Superior Performance Rally! I have a ton to share from it so I will use this as a thread 🧵 :)

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For my rally sickos: Ecoboost powered Ford RS200 wasn’t a misprint

A Ford RS200 in white! Bog standard it seems

The intercooler mounted high up as the rear clam opens behind

“COLD START PROCEDUCE
IT IS ESSENTIAL NOT TO EXCEED 1500 R.P.M.
-DR
THE FIRST 30 SECONDS AFTER STARTING. D NOT
DRIVE WITH OIL PRESSURE ABOVE 6 BAR. AL DW
WATER TEMPERATURE TO REACH NORMAL BEFORE USING MAXIMUM POWER. FAILURE OBSERVE CORRECT PROCEDURE MAY RESULT IN
EXPENSIVE ENGINE DAMAGE.”

The coolest factory sticker for the RS200

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BG friend: in Munich checking out a HFMSTRs event running after the M3 GT-R and F1 GT-R US friend: helping out a rally and spotted an ecoboost RS200. How’s your Saturday?? #weirdcarBS

A Ford RS200 and an Ur Quattro in rally trim!

F1 GT-R behind a E36 M3 GT-R in a warehouse with red lighting in Munich

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 09/10/2026

I ate down in this photoset and made an anniversary video two years ago: www.youtube.com/shorts/Aqq4F... If you want me to help keep this thing alive, ko-fi.com/petrospect hit me up! Thank you so much for being patient with me, I'm in a bit of a whirlwind rn, soz.

My single favorite photo of me and my 1991 BMW E36 316i sedan in Gletscherblau. It's sunset in front of a floral arrangement. I reused this same location years ago shooting some videos back then.
I love this car. This is the photo without me in it that got me featured in 2025's Apex Adjacent.

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The new Rangey isn’t so terribly bad thinking about it because it got tall but it remains narrow but long like all old Range Rovers. Small to huge car is impressive but this is also total carflation!

The original Range Rover next to a new one

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 08/10/2026

Someone figured out that a new Countryman is the height/size of an OG Range Rover. Carry on!

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 08/10/2026

Even with my bad news financially and all my crap, I'm still influencing a German friend to get an Elise S2 since he can support it from all sides and I've helped guide a friend of a friend towards a R35 GT-R from a manual OG R8 since he used to work for Nissan. This is at least really fun to do!

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 08/10/2026

Genuine #QOTD: what’s a car that got zero consideration from other drivers? I almost smashed into a Golf that chose to ignore me, merging from a side street. People cut me off in the Yaris and that is not unusual, absolutely nobody respects it on the road. Do you have a car like that?

A white Mk4 Toyota Yaris. It may as well be the most anonymous car in Greece!

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 07/10/2026

In case you were wondering what the heck I’m talking about, this twirly bit is what’s missing from the driver one, but that’s what kept em cheap! I reckon I can steal one from my old plastic handles.

Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 07/10/2026

Front door handles arrived! The driver one is missing the twirly piece that holds it in place so I’ll probably reuse it from my old plastic ones. Not bad!

My Gletscherblau metallic 1991 E36 BMW 316i sedan parked next to a green Hyundai Getz

The front and rear sets of my metal chrome door handles for my E36 on a desk chair

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Nikki is the cutest kitty ever, I love her

Nikki, my 1 year old girl tabby kitty rolling on her chair with her pet tiger she doesn’t care for much, looking at me

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SAABBA was right there! And Björn did like the 9000 enough to endorse it, I wish I put that in the article but I legit forgot lol

"If we had a car this fast while ABBA was still together, we could have toured the whole world" -Björn Uvaeus, Saab 9000 ad from when it beat a few speed records!

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I finally figured out what the new BMW i3's front end reminds me of: FN2 Civic!

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That was yesterday. Wasn't a terrible evening mind you! But yeah, I need to do more stuff that doesn't waste my time like edit or write more. This shit sucks.

1 beer later, I'm doing the peace sign as a selfie

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Everytime I have a disappointing interview that leads nowhere I see a Ferrari the same day just as I walk out of a building. I hope there's a prancing horse somewhere in my future, if I can be so bold as to say that.

A red Ferrari 488 GTB waiting at a red light in front of a grey Audi A3 at the Thessaloniki port.

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I do hear this about Polestar but the designs are too dull. Stand by this bit of my article that the Ioniq 6 feels more Saab than anything else I've seen.

"Imagining a world without ABBA almost feels as bad as being without SAAB for so long. Maybe both were necessary in their time in a way it isn’t now because I can’t help when I look at an Ioniq 6 and see a bit of SAAB 900 to the shape. The ripples still go on to this day, not everyone wants to be dull."

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 05/10/2026

I love that the Lancia badge returned on the body at any spot, loved spotting it in the old Deltas--nice to see it in a C pillar! Pity we don't get these in Greece, the old ones were popular.

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Ε30 makes even E36 touring look like a SUV! It’s tiny

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 05/10/2026

Yoooo there you go! Friggin huge.

A silver X5 E53 next to a new black X1 BMW in a parking lot next to a highway

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 05/10/2026

The series has come a long way since Dr No premiered in London on October 5th 1962 and they've arguably fumbled it at this point but at least the songs we got along the way will live forever.

An original Dr No poster from 1962. Bikini I don't think is too NSFW!

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Well, it's official, I rebranded my Instagram from petrospect_r that I had as a handle for years to petrospect.blog. It's been a long time coming! www.instagram.com/petrospect.b...

The Instagram of petrospect.blog as of October 4, 2026

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Crazy photo cropped up on Instagram today from @durangoism —W140 and Trabant 601 at a red light after the fall of the Berlin wall. Crazy difference.

A blue Trabant 601 meets a black Mercedes-Benz W140 at a red light. East and West German automobiles meet. From @durangoism on Instagram

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I came across a gold W140 today and if I owned one I’d be like “in my oligarch era 💕😍🔱”

A gold W140 Mercedes-Benz S Klasse streetparked behind my light blue 1991 BMW E36 sedan 316i

My light blue 316i E36 sedan streetparked in front of a gold W140 S Klasse

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You deserve a selfie (I feel like shit still but way better than before!)

A selfie of me in a grey jacket next to my light blue E36

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How it felt to drive the E36 after a week and go get coffee: ✨delightful✨

Lana del Rey circa 2014 driving her gold R107 SL and waving to photographers

Lana Del Rey dissociating in the car and posing cutely, as you do

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I'm still sick btw but I get a lot of comfort watching Nikki be supreeeemely comfy on her bed

My tabby kitty Nikki on her white bed looking cute af.

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This is the piece btw, someone elbowed mine in the 90s and it's been broken on the bottom since then too. Small bits would make a difference. Can't afford to buy it rn but damn would that be an OCD detail I'd like to amend...

BMW 3 SERIES 1990-1998 E36 SALOON DRIVERS RIGHT INTERIOR B COLUMN PILLAR TRIM ULTRAMARIN BLUE 1960980

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How she is perfectly comfortable like this I have no idea! But yeah, Nikki's pure gello : )

Nikki moments apart yesterday, how pose #1 was comfortable is beyond me

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Snack stop: Gifflar cinnamon cannelle btw, OP. Very much alike small buns which is nice

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Andreas Petros @petrospect.blog · 02/10/2026

Went to IKEA and I've neglected to mention this long: POÄNG always looked perfect to me. That is all, that is the skeet.

A white fabric IKEA POANG with dark brown wood, not necessarily my favorite spec but really really good

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Unfairlady Nikki has been avoidant in my hour of need

Nikki, my 1 year old tabby kitty serving puss with her expression top of the staircase

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The "powered by BMW" badge on the first one I ever spotted was quite cool I must admit...

If I was in a crew of black Civics… :)

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Alternate angle dropped! What would you have from this stacked trailer

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Re: 106 supremacy, I come from the land of the Σαξόραλλο and not owning one feels like a crime (even if they’re thin on the ground)… them making it to America is deeply concerning for my prospects of thinking of em. People have been sleeping on these! www.instagram.com/p/Dd5IkJSmpg...

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206cc Roland Garros and the 205 Lacoste.. oofff

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