Yeti spotting - result!

[speedsport]

Latest trip to Isle of Mull earlier in the month, must have seen 8 or 9 different Yeti on the island over the 2 weeks. Most being driven by 60+ folk, (which I'm not yet) and only one actually bothered to wave... which is blasted annoying up there as normally everyone waves at everyone else, whatever they are driving!

16" wheels would have been far more appropriate on Mull's roads though, you have constant concern about damaging alloys on the potholes and crumbling margins.

Was behind a Scottish registered 1.8TSi Yeti up Glen Coe & across Rannoch Moor on the way home, being driven in a “rather sprightly” manner! When following a Yeti at speed, you realise just how well planted the car looks on the open road, with relatively little body roll given its tall attitude. The chap in the Porsche Boxter behind me (also keeping pace), pulled in alongside me at Tyndrum’s fantastic fish & chip eatery and asked all the usual questions about the car, saying he’d been most impressed whilst following us for the previous 20 miles or so.

Here's 3 of the 5 Yeti in Tobermory Main Street around 8pm on 16th May. Out of sight on the left there are another two parked up! Must have been coming into town to roost! (Do flurries of Yeti roost at night?)

Edited 29 May, 2013 by speedsport

[manxskoda]

Shame they were not on the Isle of Skye, that really would have p*****d MarieK off big time!!! There are as many Yeti,s on that street as there are in the whole of the Isle of Man.

Tony

[MarieK]

I see enough yeti up here without having another five

[vegit8]

Spotted another Briskoda Yeti, lurking around where we live in Weymouth, Up Bowleaze Coveway...

[Brijo]

^With the right sticker, too! I wonder who.....

[ultramagnetic]

Spotted another Briskoda Yeti, lurking around where we live in Weymouth, Up Bowleaze Coveway...

How odd thats my Yeti!! went there today damn shes filthy at the moment ive clocked up over 500 miles in her this week as we have been off work she's never that dirty!!!

Also oddly I got spotted on the way home today and waved at my a fella in a white Yeti about 5:30 isn on our way back home anyone here??

[dbg400]

There's a Tangerine 4x4 '11 plate here at Harewood Hillclimb. First time I've seen one up close. Super colour

[Llanigraham]

5 days in Crete and I haven't seen one!!

[vegit8]

5 days in Crete and I haven't seen one!!

None in Croatia either, when we were there a few weeks ago.

[Yetiflute]

5 days in Crete and I haven't seen one!!

5 days in Crete and I haven't seen one!!

I saw plenty there on South coast two weeks ago !!

[bahnstormer vrs]

i'm off on my summer hols on Friday to the Lake District for a week; going up the A1 and over the Yorkshire Dales. I wonder if I will see any more Yeti than I do on a daily basis (which is virtually none)?

Guy

[Onesque]

Yeti hot spot up here in the Dales, can't fail to spot one.

[dbg400]

We were in the Dales for a few days last week. Once out of the fog we saw four or five, but all parked up so no one to wave to!

[FlintstoneR1]

Black l and k, on a transporter heading out of Grimsby docks......... Who's waiting then?

Last Friday afternoon about 4:30ish, I was using my "other" car (the BMW) for what it was designed for - blatting along the autobahn between Osnabruck and the Dutch border, trying (successfully!) to reach Rotterdam in time for the P&O ferry check-in. Anyway, there was I putting 105 miles into the hour, mostly in the centre lane of the not too crowded autobahn, when one of the several cars (and a VW Transporter van!) that came past me with at least a +20mph speed differential - was an immaculate, all black Yeti - looking totally awesome! Perhaps it was that one seen heading out of Grimsby? Really stood out among the Porsches and the gaggle of AMG Mercs that came past at roughly the same time.

Edited 5 June, 2013 by FlintstoneR1

[rockhopper]

Last Friday afternoon about 4:30ish, I was using my "other" car (the BMW) for what it was designed for - blatting along the autobahn between Osnabruck and the Dutch border, trying (successfully!) to reach Rotterdam in time for the P&O ferry check-in. Anyway, there was I putting 105 miles into the hour, mostly in the centre lane of the not too crowded autobahn, when one of the several cars (and a VW Transporter van!) that came past me with at least a +20mph speed differential - was an immaculate, all black Yeti - looking totally awesome! Perhaps it was that one seen heading out of Grimsby? Really stood out among the Porsches and the gaggle of AMG Mercs that came past at roughly the same time.

Must have been flat out as that would be about the top speed of a CR170 or even a 1.8tsi.

[dbg400]

Saw *another* Tangerine Yeti, twice, yesterday evening - driving past The Ketch in Willerby.

[hmibennett]

Oh dear, we SM owners are getting less exclusive by the day. Saw THREE driving home this morning from Northallerton station - two steel greys and one (I think) aqua blue.

[MOCAMB]

A red one followed me out of Stoke Park a couple of weeks ago, but I was in my other car so didn't get a wave, flash or any other form of recognition. :(

[CFB]

There was a brand spanking new corrida red with black roof parked in lidl carpark blackheath at lunchtime.

Very pretty.

[MarieK]

Sure it wasn't just a post office van?

[Michael G]

At least it wasn't an ice cream van

[MarieK]

At least it wasn't an ice cream van

Or an ambulance?

[CFB]

Can't have been a post office van.

The owner wasn't wearing shorts

[LeeHarrison]

Yeti Man (Lee)? Hoddesdon about 10 minutes ago. Looks nice.

[RBrocky]

Can't have been a post office van.

The owner wasn't wearing shorts

Slightly off topic. There was something in the grauniad about Swedish train drivers being banned from shorts, turning up to work in skirts instead.

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