I headed down to the utterly trendy Meatpacking District for dinner at the Standard Grill and was immediately distracted by all the choice rides strewn about Washington Street.  First I peeped this tricked out Cayman S, complete with bitchin Sarona body kit, black wheels, tints and frosty Carrara White coloring. The stark white silhouette, in contrast with dark wheels, looked as if it was hovering above the asphalt. The owner gave me nasty looks from the nearby table he was sitting at as I snapped away at his baby. Maybe he thought I was an SEC auditor or something? Next up was this well-kept 911 Turbo Slantnose (aka Flatnose), “Flachbau” in German, parked around the corner. I was floored not least because of how rare these specially bodied 911s are, but because of how exotic it still manages to look more than 20 years later. Just another night in the Meatpacking District right?

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None of the openers I was able to come up with quite topped that of Jay Shoemaker in his 2006 review in The Truth About Cars – “Walking up to the Aston Martin DB9, I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to drive it or sleep with it.” The talented auto scribe could not have said it better because this near $200,000 drop top is some kind of design sorcerer for what it has accomplished with mere aluminum and sheet metal. Too bad for that scuffed wheel. I think we know a guy who can buff that out.

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One of our loyal readers caught this beautiful bathtub posed in front of Pastis in the Meatpacking District. This Speedster is so clean, so perfect in every way, that it seems entirely plausible to think it’s a fugazi. A good looking, high quality fugazi – but a fugazi nonetheless. We could be wrong of course – and a real one of these would fetch quite a bit of coin at the auction block – but it just seems too good to be true.

Real or fake? weigh in below…

Thanks for the great photos Dave

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Summer is nearly over and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate the splendid weather, on a Friday no less, than to go out and enjoy an ice cream cone. It’s okay to treat yourself once and a while so skip the line a Pink Berry and head to the Meatpacking district (or SOHO) in search of one of these buttery yellow, retrofitted postal vans dishing out high-quality Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream.There are a bunch of flavors but Vanilla is the one to try. The beans are derived from organic bourbon and Tahitian vanilla orchids grown in Papua New Guinea for crissakes and are aged in vodka inside of oak barrels for four months before being grinded up and inserted into the 18% butterfat ice cream base. Drooling yet? 

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They don’t call it smart for nothing.

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We spotted this BMW X6 on 14th street in the Meatpacking District. The sexy soft-roader with a chopped roofline was BMW’s answer to the rising trend toward combining coupe-like profiles with utter non-sports cars. Before X6 hit the scene, the trend had applied almost exclusively to sedans like Mercedes CLS and Passat CC. Although BMW was not the first automaker to fuse coupes and crossovers – Infiniti did it back in 2003 with the precocious FX35 and FX45.

This particular X6 is eqiupped with the optional 4.4L twin turbo V8 – it sends 400 horsepower to all four wheel via BMW’s intelligent AWD system. Apparently, the hulking V8 is the first of its kind to feature turbos between the V section in the middle of the two banks of cylinders. The trunk lid might just be the best iteration yet of the infamous Bangle But. A similarly intentioned crossover coupe from Acura called the ZDX will be hitting dealerships soon.

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