Epic Fail

The Search for Supercars in Honolulu

As I stood in front of a white Porsche Carrera S, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. I had been searching for supercars in Honolulu for hours, and finally, I had found one. But as I gazed at the sleek machine, I couldn't shake off the feeling that it was too tame. "Hey, how's it going?" I called out to a nearby luxury car rental agent.

"I'm standing in front of a white Carrera S," I said with a hint of disappointment. "Do you guys rent this car for $5.99 a day?" The agent replied that the price included insurance and other fees, which came out to around $700 plus tax. "Paying cash, 10% discount." I liked the sound of that. After all, who doesn't love a good deal? With the cash in hand, I was ready to take the Porsche for a spin.

But as I looked around, I realized that I might not have found what I was really looking for. "Apparently, there's a dealership that sells Ferraris and supercars here in Honolulu," I thought to myself. "I didn't know that." I decided to put my search on hold for now and try to find the dealership later.

Instead, I sat down at one of the main intersections and parked my butt there, determined to see how many supercars I could spot. The plan was to spend an hour and a half just observing and waiting for something to happen. As I settled into my makeshift perch, I spotted a Ferrari California in the distance. "Well, that was super successful," I thought with a chuckle.

However, as the hours ticked by, I realized that Honolulu might not be the best place to spot supercars. Despite the beautiful weather and upscale atmosphere, the streets were relatively empty of high-end vehicles. I spotted a couple of basic Porsches, but that was about it. It seemed like all the cool kids were keeping their cars hidden away.

Undeterred, I decided to venture off the beaten path and try to find that supercar dealership. After all, I had to accomplish something on my "Daily Driven Exotics" level today. As I walked down the main drag, I spotted a Rolex watch store, which seemed like a good place to start. The owner, a friendly gentleman with a passion for luxury timepieces, offered me a warm welcome.

"Are you vlogging?" he asked, eyeing my camera equipment. "What's that?" he replied when I told him about Daily Driven Exotics. He wrote it down on a piece of paper and smiled, clearly entertained by the idea of exotic cars. We chatted for a while about watches, with me asking questions and him offering expert advice.

As we talked, I couldn't help but notice that Barack Obama's name was mentioned in passing. "That'd be cool," I thought to myself. "To catch the Secret Service shutting everything down and having a convoy of blacked-out SUVs." Alas, it seemed like that wasn't going to happen today.

The Rolex owner showed me some of his favorite watches, including a stunning Platinum Daytona with a powder blue dial. "This one's worth $60,000," he said with a smile. I was impressed by the craftsmanship and beauty of the watch. As we parted ways, I thanked him for the chat and continued my search for supercars.

As the day drew to a close, I reflected on what had been a relatively unsuccessful car-spotting adventure. Despite spotting two Ferraris California's (which I slipped up on by not even getting a good shot), I realized that Honolulu just wasn't the right place to find supercars. But I was determined to try again tomorrow and track down those exotic cars.

With renewed energy, I decided to explore the city some more and see if I could find that supercar dealership. After all, there had to be someone out there who was passionate about high-end vehicles. As I walked through the streets, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation for what tomorrow would bring.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI woke up today really excited about today's Vlog I thought I had a great idea and I was going to execute on it didn't go the way I thought it was going to go good day guys happy Friday this is me just leaving the hotel room now because I was doing emails I was doing conference calls um my family's down at the pool they've been down there for hours they've had breakfast I haven't eaten all I've had is a coffee this is me essentially on a daily basis leaving the hotel room always the last one I usually wear something different in the morning just to run upstairs to do breakfast or grab the coffee which is why you see sometimes like multiple outfits in in my editing um don't be confused it's the same day this backpack I bring everywhere with me it's got the Drone in it which now is a larger drone the Phantom gopro's in there I got extra batteries for the Sony in there I got my phone in my hand I carry quite a bit of gear with me throughout the day to get all different angles different types of footage the GoPros are great for being in the water anyhow let's head to the pool and I think I'm going to go check out some rental cars touristy Jeep convertible which is always fun that Porsche down the road anyhow I've had my eye on it it would be fun to rent it just rip around for a bit just to get a bit of the I'm getting a little p pimped up here vacations with no supercars or any sports cars or any type of Tire shredding or squealing or going fast uh kills me so we'll grab an elevator and head down to the pool hey look who's over here Presley are you having fun yeah hi sweetie he is Mama playing with you a did you go eat no all right so we're getting some lunch uh today is pizza from this place my wife and I have like a favorite coffee drink it's a blended coffee drink like a Starbucks frappuccino but it's from this company the Honolulu Coffee Company look at these things oh delicious this one's caramel wife doesn't like uh whip but instead of the caramel I take the calories in the whip my pizza delivery girl I can only sit poolside and do nothing for so long so I'm going to leave the kids over here I'm going to go walk around and uh go car hunting I can't sit by the pool any longer all right so I'm going to do a bit of car spotting today this is the main strip going into y key K but I'm going to commit a couple of hours today to trying to spot the most super cars that I can possibly find I think one of the nicest European cars I've seen is a newer uh Porsche Carrera so I'm going to go and check these out see how much they are to rent and then I'm going to go back down to one of the main intersections and sit and park my butt there and see how many supercars I can spot it's not looking very promising I'm just going to warn you now Porche I was talking about maybe I'll rent this thing just to take it out and have a little bit of fun CU I'm going through some serious withdrawal all right we got a Carrera S this as nice as it gets this is pretty lame yeah that's it but it might be all I've got let's find out how much they want for this car let's call the number hey how's it going I'm standing in front of a white career what do you guys rent this car for $5.99 a day am I looking at for insurance and stuff about 100 bucks about $700 plus tax to rent this for a day all right paying cash 10% discount I like that that always works all right all right so that Porsche over my right shoulder will likely be a ride and an adventure for us in a couple of days tomorrow I have to take the kids and the family out in a jeep so I need to still go find a Jeep to rent but I'd like to go take some sort of a sports car on some level out and zip around apparently there's a a dealership that sells Ferraris and supercars here in Honolulu which I didn't know so we're going to try to find that as well and uh that won't be today but maybe in a day or two when I get the Porsche we'll go and find that for now let's go see how many super cars we can find here cuz the gentleman who I was just talking to at the luxury rental car place if you can even call it that said that there is actually a significant amount of Supercar owners here they just don't drive their cars very often so I've seen a couple of decent cars driving around over the last few days let's go sit for an hour and a half and see how many we can spot all right I found a spot I think I'm going to sit right here and this looks pretty promising for the sole purpose of this is the main drag going into W ke we got one Ferrari California all right well that was super super unsuccessful Honolulu is turning out to be probably one of the worst car spotting places I've ever been that's beautiful highend and has good weather what are those didn't even see that coming since we're not having much luck with cars why don't we go look at watches hi guys are you vlogging what's that are you vlogging yeah I have a channel nice what what's your channel daily driven Exotics that's what's on my hat oh yeah let me write it down sure what daily driven Exotics it's some you sir oh that was nice oh thank you so we've got an exotic car dealership oh look at that they have Ferrari Maserati Bentley Lamborghini Lotus and Audi Barack Obama's in town tonight that'd be cool that'd be cool to catch the Secret Service like shutting everything down and have the big the Convoy of all the blacked out SUVs Ah that's cool yeah so what's your favorite Rolex uh Platinum Platinum Daytona Daytona or the yacht Master uh actually this one right here that one this one that one yeah that's a nice face yeah so if it has this color dial yeah then it's Platinum oh so that's specific to that yeah powder blue and it goes under the radar too you know people see it they think this thing is steel but in actuality it's Platinum just what you want people to think that your stainless or your your sorry your platinum what's that probably like a $60,000 watch 775 yeah 75 so it's up there to be mistaken for a Daytona that's ins stanless is like 20 right right right that would suck the sheron's nice I mean it's convenient for the location and very uh family friendly too right like the pool and stuff like that it's perfect for that yeah my daughter's love all right guys we'll enjoy the rest of your day okay D enjoy take care Rolex always a fun location to go and Shop in the walking the main drag here in y keiki I can only find two Ferrari californias which I slipped and dropped the ball on even shooting those because they were in like the fourth Lane over in a ton of traffic I saw a couple of basic Porsches and that's it however there is a dealership that sells supercars here so I'm going to try to venture off the beaten path and go to it so I can at least accomplish something on my DD car level so you see today didn't really go the way that I thought it was going to go but hey the good news is always have tomorrow ohI woke up today really excited about today's Vlog I thought I had a great idea and I was going to execute on it didn't go the way I thought it was going to go good day guys happy Friday this is me just leaving the hotel room now because I was doing emails I was doing conference calls um my family's down at the pool they've been down there for hours they've had breakfast I haven't eaten all I've had is a coffee this is me essentially on a daily basis leaving the hotel room always the last one I usually wear something different in the morning just to run upstairs to do breakfast or grab the coffee which is why you see sometimes like multiple outfits in in my editing um don't be confused it's the same day this backpack I bring everywhere with me it's got the Drone in it which now is a larger drone the Phantom gopro's in there I got extra batteries for the Sony in there I got my phone in my hand I carry quite a bit of gear with me throughout the day to get all different angles different types of footage the GoPros are great for being in the water anyhow let's head to the pool and I think I'm going to go check out some rental cars touristy Jeep convertible which is always fun that Porsche down the road anyhow I've had my eye on it it would be fun to rent it just rip around for a bit just to get a bit of the I'm getting a little p pimped up here vacations with no supercars or any sports cars or any type of Tire shredding or squealing or going fast uh kills me so we'll grab an elevator and head down to the pool hey look who's over here Presley are you having fun yeah hi sweetie he is Mama playing with you a did you go eat no all right so we're getting some lunch uh today is pizza from this place my wife and I have like a favorite coffee drink it's a blended coffee drink like a Starbucks frappuccino but it's from this company the Honolulu Coffee Company look at these things oh delicious this one's caramel wife doesn't like uh whip but instead of the caramel I take the calories in the whip my pizza delivery girl I can only sit poolside and do nothing for so long so I'm going to leave the kids over here I'm going to go walk around and uh go car hunting I can't sit by the pool any longer all right so I'm going to do a bit of car spotting today this is the main strip going into y key K but I'm going to commit a couple of hours today to trying to spot the most super cars that I can possibly find I think one of the nicest European cars I've seen is a newer uh Porsche Carrera so I'm going to go and check these out see how much they are to rent and then I'm going to go back down to one of the main intersections and sit and park my butt there and see how many supercars I can spot it's not looking very promising I'm just going to warn you now Porche I was talking about maybe I'll rent this thing just to take it out and have a little bit of fun CU I'm going through some serious withdrawal all right we got a Carrera S this as nice as it gets this is pretty lame yeah that's it but it might be all I've got let's find out how much they want for this car let's call the number hey how's it going I'm standing in front of a white career what do you guys rent this car for $5.99 a day am I looking at for insurance and stuff about 100 bucks about $700 plus tax to rent this for a day all right paying cash 10% discount I like that that always works all right all right so that Porsche over my right shoulder will likely be a ride and an adventure for us in a couple of days tomorrow I have to take the kids and the family out in a jeep so I need to still go find a Jeep to rent but I'd like to go take some sort of a sports car on some level out and zip around apparently there's a a dealership that sells Ferraris and supercars here in Honolulu which I didn't know so we're going to try to find that as well and uh that won't be today but maybe in a day or two when I get the Porsche we'll go and find that for now let's go see how many super cars we can find here cuz the gentleman who I was just talking to at the luxury rental car place if you can even call it that said that there is actually a significant amount of Supercar owners here they just don't drive their cars very often so I've seen a couple of decent cars driving around over the last few days let's go sit for an hour and a half and see how many we can spot all right I found a spot I think I'm going to sit right here and this looks pretty promising for the sole purpose of this is the main drag going into W ke we got one Ferrari California all right well that was super super unsuccessful Honolulu is turning out to be probably one of the worst car spotting places I've ever been that's beautiful highend and has good weather what are those didn't even see that coming since we're not having much luck with cars why don't we go look at watches hi guys are you vlogging what's that are you vlogging yeah I have a channel nice what what's your channel daily driven Exotics that's what's on my hat oh yeah let me write it down sure what daily driven Exotics it's some you sir oh that was nice oh thank you so we've got an exotic car dealership oh look at that they have Ferrari Maserati Bentley Lamborghini Lotus and Audi Barack Obama's in town tonight that'd be cool that'd be cool to catch the Secret Service like shutting everything down and have the big the Convoy of all the blacked out SUVs Ah that's cool yeah so what's your favorite Rolex uh Platinum Platinum Daytona Daytona or the yacht Master uh actually this one right here that one this one that one yeah that's a nice face yeah so if it has this color dial yeah then it's Platinum oh so that's specific to that yeah powder blue and it goes under the radar too you know people see it they think this thing is steel but in actuality it's Platinum just what you want people to think that your stainless or your your sorry your platinum what's that probably like a $60,000 watch 775 yeah 75 so it's up there to be mistaken for a Daytona that's ins stanless is like 20 right right right that would suck the sheron's nice I mean it's convenient for the location and very uh family friendly too right like the pool and stuff like that it's perfect for that yeah my daughter's love all right guys we'll enjoy the rest of your day okay D enjoy take care Rolex always a fun location to go and Shop in the walking the main drag here in y keiki I can only find two Ferrari californias which I slipped and dropped the ball on even shooting those because they were in like the fourth Lane over in a ton of traffic I saw a couple of basic Porsches and that's it however there is a dealership that sells supercars here so I'm going to try to venture off the beaten path and go to it so I can at least accomplish something on my DD car level so you see today didn't really go the way that I thought it was going to go but hey the good news is always have tomorrow oh\n"