Do Ferrari drivers greet each other?

I am just three weeks into my first Ferrari ownership experience.

Living in Danville, CA, I can't help but pass other Fcar drivers on my daily evening run.

What's the etiquette? Do Ferrari drivers greet? Waive? Flash lights? Honk?

 

nobody told you the secret greeting?

 

You haven't heard of the rolling hand shake?

 

The form of greeting depends on how old your Ferrari is. If it is older than the 360 Modena, the proper greeting is both a hand wave and a flash of the lights, possibly a little toot of the horn.

If the Ferrari is a 360 or newer, the proper response is to look up from your cell phone, yawn and then take a sip of your Starbucks Grande Latte, all while motoring along at 5 mph under the speed limit (all the better for people to see you, my dear!).

You, of course, with your 328 are definitely part of the fun crowd!

Forza!

John










P.S. This is a joke and not intended to imply that owners of new Ferraris are oblivious to their car, the experience of driving a Ferrari as God and Enzo intended or to their surroundings, even if it seems to be true most of the time! Your mileage may vary, no other warranty is expressed or implied and we take no responsibility for your bruised feelings!

 

Just a thumbs up gesture.

Anything else would be too girlie!

And always gesture in a nonchalant manner. It's written in the Rule Book somewhere!

 

That comment is all too true in Los Angeles..im sure its better elsewhere

 

ROTFLMAO.....

my answer is "no different" than if i were to greet someone driving a kia.

 

If I had one I wouldn't have time to be waving to other people...

Love the suggestions, Ashman. Saw a brand new 430 Spider tonight with some dude on his cell phone pulling across 5 lanes of traffic in downtown Nashville to get to a Starbucks...what a waste of car...

 

I toot my horn at any other F Car I see...I love my horn...

 

Not ferrari, but with the maserati I usually nod or give a quick wave.

For the last year or so however the acknowledgement has been pretty much one way.

 

You're pretty much required to stop and wait with the other driver until their flatbed arrives.

 

usally i greet other owners with an incredulous stare and a quick look in the rear view mirror.

 

I like the sound of the horn too. I generally give and receive a acknowledgment nod or suttle wave or thumbs up.

 

Finally someone who admits to tooting his own horn ... and loving it!

 

... while making "helpful" suggestions like, "Did you check the injection pump belt?" (on carbed cars) or "Have you tried the starter?".


A driver pretty much has to commit an indictible act to hear my horn in traffic. (The result of growing up in the city.) Last time I lit up the air horns in the Alfa (when a car was drifting into my lane), the offending sedan suddenly acquired an impromptu Gurney bubble.

There is a long history of "waving etiquette": http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/thewave.html

Although the old Rodent Track article from the '70s had the precedence going the other way -- the "wave" was initiated by the "greater" condescending to acknowledge the "lesser". The "wave" is akin to what the Queen uses when greeting the peons.

Some drivers of rusty Alfas get a big smile when they're acknowledged by a Ferrari driver (even if it is an old 3x8). Others don't seem to notice.

 

I always flash my lights and give a little wave, I hate to say it but your right whenever I see another 360, it's a 50/50 chance...older cars they go out of their way to honk, flash lights and wave…

 

I don't know, I never see any other Ferraris on the road while I'm driving mine.

 

Well you do live in Scottsdale

 

+1

 

ROTFLMHO! How right you are!

 

I am pretty sure female drivers are required to flash fellow ferrari owners...

 

Yes to all of the above. Congrats on the new car.

 

then again, if you are both driving in the same direction the proper greeting could be a drag race

 

Unless it's the slutmobile ... in which case I would politely decline the drag race