A small question for ya.

What usualy happens when i meet other none ferrari exotics on the road, being it driving by or parked next to each other. Is that the other exotic driver usualy makes out that they havnt noticed the ferrari at the side of them
The Lambourghini drivers some times can be up there own backsides but some wave As for ferari drivers, there a funny bunch of buggers. Some give the wave some just havnt got the spirit and dont respond
I get most of my road challenges from the Jap boys, with the likes of Scubys and Skylines....oh an the Porsches boys are up for it

 

and Ford Mustang drivers...the most troublesome over here......LOL!

 

LOL they would have trouble over here in the UK mate......we have corners, and some of them tight

 

They are just crazy with testosterone I suppose........

I had one come up behind me down an off ramp... loose control at 110MPH or so...I went back to the main lanes and he skidded backwards 3 lanes wide after me, caving the RH door and nicking my LH side into the concrete median wall...

I stopped and politely inquired WTF he thought he was doing and he said:

"trying to miss that car..back there!"

I told him to go get his bumper, before someone else collected it....

*sigh*

 

Most of them are just for fun - the kids in a rusted out cavalier barely able to idle. The young couple in an older Accord. The painter guy in a white van.

they usually win

the serious ones - ***hetaboudit. Unless it's another 348 of course

 

hahah!! Reminds me of that commercial with the guy in the huge truck that can't even fit into his carport, and slams into it.

 

A C5 corvette challange me this week (wed). I showed him enough to let him know not to bother, and he learned quickly! As an earlier poster said, Mustangs tend to be trouble. Guys on sport bike always seem to love my car. I get more thumbs up from them than any other.

 

Almost never. I wish I did - feels like I'm the only one driving a Ferrari around here.

 

Pantera what kind of car do you have? It's not in your profile so if you don't want to say then obviously you don't have to.

My friend had an old Toyota that was clearly falling apart, and we revved the engine at red lights at nice cars and motorcycles. We didn't even try to race, they would have slaughtered us like how Notre Dame slaughtered Penn State today, the main point was to make them laugh.

 

Around here they've erected concrete barriers in the median on all the freeways. If one is in the exotic, it's impossible to see over the barriers to the other side of the freeway, which really reduces the chance to 'spot' another exotic.

Usually the most interesting things I see when driving the Fcar is a viper or NSX, which are decidedly not exotics.

 

Not all Mustang driver's are asshats like you've mentioned... you can't put all of us in that stereotype I learned that while there are some Ferrari owners that turn their nose up at you a lot of them are great, car loving guys like I am.

Always be leary of "stock" appearing Mustangs with "not-so-stock" sounding exhaust notes



Shannon <--- Mustang owner

 

funny that people are mentioning mustang owners

i thought i was imagining things over the years.....but yes, come to mention it, mustang owners in general are showoffs with little *****s thay zoom around you, reving, peeling out, looking for trouble

i try to avoid mustang owners

 

I was once challenged at a light by a young guy in a panel truck (delivery truck). I gave a confused look followed by a chuckle... he responded, "No, I just want to hear your car as you take off!!" I learned something that day...

Not every kid revving his engine has "something to prove" or "excess testosterone"... some are just car enthusiasts who may be seeing their first Ferrari "in the wild" and desperately hoping to hear it at full song.

However, with that said...

Unfortunately, trying to taunt us into a short burst, leaves us no way to distinguish them from an idiot who's liable to focus on "racing" us... which can be dangerous.

So, while I try to always assume the best of the kiddos, I still sit for an extra few seconds to let them take off a safe distance ahead.

 

I was challenged by a BMW 740iL today. We were cruising along minding our business when he blew by us at about 80 in a 40. So, I downshifted and stepped on it and got it up to 130 in no time. We blew by him. Then we slowed up and he went by us at about 110 (this was all in a 50mph zone). We started to go chase him down again but he put his arm out the window as if to signal us to slow (thought he may have seen a cop). We both pull up to the stop light and have a fun 2 minute conversation about cars...he told me he loved the F430. So, right before the light changed, he says "let's give 'em a run". We both stomp on the gas and give it all we had. The F430 was up to 100 in no time and he was looking at my tail lights. Nice guy though.

 

That's usually my experience.