A couple of pics from the first Cars and Coffee in Croatia.

"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
10/15/2018 at 07:13 • Filed to: cars and coffee, croatia, car show

The event itself wasn’t so special. About 20 cars showed up, and all of them just new and expensive Audis, BMWs, Porsches and Mercs. Not that interesting, really. Or at least not for me. Just people with a lot of money and not necessarily car enthusiasts. A few of them were modded out though, like a drift-missile style Silvia, a GTR with carbon bits and a couple of BMWs with cool wraps. I mean the participation fee was like 100 Euros.

But other than that, mostly stock expensive luxury cars and a bunch of people crowded around them. Hence the lack of photos.

However, the more interesting stuff was in the underground garage where people visiting parked. A lot of local and not-so-local tuned and modded cars showed up, and chatting with the owners and others interested in these cars was the most entertaining and valuable part of the whole experience. Revving the engines and people standing taking pics and giving thumbs up was fantastic.

The upside is that I’m always surprised at events like this by just how many people here actually are car enthusiasts. It’s just rare to see so many at one place, as car meets here are few and far between. I mean just seeing a car with different wheels or even something as banal as a window sticker is an event for me. And I live in the capitol city, mind you. People just don’t touch their cars here.

It just makes me happy to know that people close to me share the same passion. Looking forward to this event next year, hopefully the local car scene will be even greater in numbers by then.

DISCUSSION (3)

Nauraushaun > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
10/15/2018 at 15:56

You’re not interested by the 918 Spyder or Rimac? You're not humannnnnnn

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Nauraushaun
10/15/2018 at 17:54

Well I see where you’re coming from, and you can bet I jumped towards that sound as it rolled in and revved it. But after that, when it parked, I took a look around it and that was that.

It’s untouchable for me. I’ll never even sit in one, let alone drive it or own it. It’s like looking at porn online. Yeah it’s great for a short while but then there’s a sudden realization that it’s all plastic which I’ll never touch.

So then an old Alfa or a slammed Golf 1 become a much more real and interesting prospect. I’ve seen a bunch of online videos about the Porsche 911 GTwhatever, but never something about the Yugo Skala! I hope that makes sense.

Nauraushaun > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
10/15/2018 at 22:34

Untouchable for me too, but I saw one of those 918s in Stuttgart and I couldn’t stop staring. I legit couldn’t walk away.

It makes sense :) My general passion is Japanese cars, and I was just as enthralled the first time I saw an Autozam AZ-1. But the 918 tickles me.

And the Rimac is out of nowhere! It’s not only better in every single way than the Skala and more of a leap forward for the automotive landscape , it’s unfathomably rarer since Rimac have built like 40 cars total and there were >10 00000 Skalas produced.