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Ken (Allyn)
Junior Member
Username: Allyn
Post Number: 244
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 5:39 pm: | |
A roller coaster that gets stuck upside down in the loop every now and then; a bumper car that they charge $3000 to ride (to fix the dents); in the arcade they have the Slow Window Race, and of course the Throw The Baseballs At The Porsche toss. And you can exchange dollars for 'Berlinetta Bucks' where $100 buys a hot dog. $25 for Fly Yellow Mustard.... |
William Huber (Solipsist)
Junior Member
Username: Solipsist
Post Number: 215
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 5:33 pm: | |
What kind of rides would you offer? The "waiting for my 360 f1 spyder while the dealer sell the contract to someone else for more profit" ride or the "non DOT/EPA conversion of new gray market Ferraris to the US frustration due to the fact the market is flooded " ride. Come on' people, we can have fun with this! |
Tim N (Timn88)
Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 543
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 3:15 pm: | |
I guess that explains why the older street cars are so unreliable.... |
Harlan Mott (Hmott3)
Junior Member
Username: Hmott3
Post Number: 75
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 3:00 pm: | |
Why would Enzo be rolling over in his grave? I would guess he would have a huge smile on his face; Ferrari did win the F1 championship last year. From what I have read about him, he could care less about production cars, hotels, casinos, or theme parks. So long as Ferrari had all the money it needed for F1 Enzo didn't care how they got it. I wouldn't doubt he would have originally gone into casino's if he thought it would further his F1 funding. I can also see him starting a chain of theme parks, again as long as it helped his F1 funding. Enzo didn't give a hoot about the streetcars. He was in a deal to sell Ferrari to Ford (I think it was Ford), but they wouldn't let him run the F1 team the way he wanted, so he backed out. If Ford had let him have F1 he would have sold it. As long as Ferrari is winning at F1 you can be sure Enzo is smiling, no matter what the rest of Ferrari is doing. |
Ben Lobenstein 90 TR (Benjet)
Member
Username: Benjet
Post Number: 516
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 2:45 pm: | |
Same article quotes:
Ferrari announced record profits last year of 62 million Euros. The company sold 6,000 cars last year, of which 1,700 were Maseratis.
Interesting (at least to me).
-Ben |
'75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Intermediate Member
Username: Peter
Post Number: 1698
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 2:22 pm: | |
You are witnessing the end of Ferrari with those moves. After that point, Ferrari will have no "soul". A Las Vegas hotel/casino!?!
The old man must be turning over in his grave... |
Dave (Maranelloman)
Junior Member
Username: Maranelloman
Post Number: 61
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 1:58 pm: | |
Lame idea, IMHO. Just a way for parent company Fiat to recoup some of its losses due to chronic mismanagement & corruption. |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Member
Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 704
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2002 - 1:40 pm: | |
Ferrari is considering building Theme Parks and Hotels as well as floating stock on the market. Check out www.itv-f1.com |