Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

i wouldn't consider this stupid at all. like Mathemagician said...goal setting.

 

I always respond, "When you consider the cost of the car, the cost of gasoline is inconsequential".

 

Damn...that's funny!

 

I had my friend's '95 F355 out one evening and while pulled up to a stop light a group of rednecks in a lifted Ford pulled up next to me...right about then I hear "tell your Dad I like his car!" Ironically there was a little old man in a white Rolls Royce behind me at the light that they hadn't noticed. I pointed behind me and informed them "oh...he's behind me...tell him yourself."

 

I would have replied with something like "tell your wife I like her (fill in with whatever suites you)".
Follow this sentence with a quick romp on the go-pedal.

 

lol

 

I had a drunk guy in a cab yell at me "My dad's Ferrari is better"

 

A couple of good things to post here

1) Yesterday, a guy and his wife/girlfriend pulled up beside me at a red light and said "You must be the happiest person in the world...nice car".....and the wife/girlfriend said "that is a beautiful car".

2) During the same spirited drive, on two separate red light stops, the car behind me (two different cars and people) pulled out their cameras and took pics.

 

At last year's Milwaukee Masterpiece, as I was heading back to my Mondial to leave, a couple of guys were walking the lot, and one of them says, "Jeez, look at this bug-splattered Ferrari."

I said, "yeah, that's what happens when you drive it."

 

At a wedding a couple of years ago, I got lucky (or perhaps unlucky) to get a spot very close to the front doors of the reception hall. After all of the speeches and such, my wife and I went outside for a quick cig break. There was a small group of young men trying to impress a couple of bride's maids a few feet away from us. I could here one of the young fellas say, "who the hell would bring a rented Ferrari to a wedding just to show off?", followed some laughter and some other smug comments.
Not being able to hold my tongue, I politely asked, "how can you tell that it's a rental?"
The fella confidently proceeded to tell me that in Alberta, where we live, that any license plate that starts with a 'W' is a rental.
I stated my surprise that the registers office could make such a mistake and pretended to fumble through the glove box looking for the owners documents.
The gals bust a gut laughing, his buddies checked out the car and asked questions while the smug young man just sort of disappeared.
Needless to say, 'W' doen't denote anything specific.

 

Many of you probably do not understand the intense athletic rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama. Trust me - it is fierce; it is intense; and it is unrelenting.

I have a Virginia plate on my 328 and it has the Auburn University "AU" logo on it. Recently I was in a parking lot and a black SUV with an Alabama logo on the right rear window eased up behind my car.

The lady driving it powered the right side window down and commented, "I thought that was a really pretty car until I saw that Auburn logo." I, of course, always thought it was a pretty car regardless of the plate.

I replied "You know, it really is a shame that all of us cannot go to Auburn." She promptly elevated her nose several degrees above horizontal, closed the window, and drove off.

JAF

Life is good; it's better if you're driving a Ferrari.

 

Gangster

 

I live in Norman, OK (home of the University of Oklahoma Sooners). We have the same relationship with the University of Texas. True hate. It never ends.

 

My wife and I attended C&C yesterday at Williamsburg Winery with the 328. When we pulled out of the winery grounds onto public roads, the guy in the right seat of the car in front of us kept sticking his camera out the window and photographing us. When we hit the stop light at VA Rt 199, we took the left turn lane and the two guys pulled alongside in the right turn lane. The driver lowered his window so the other guy could take more pictures. We smiled and waved and drove off when the light turned green. It really is a great feeling.

JAF

Live is good; it's better if you're driving a Ferrari.

 

Yesterday in traffic.

Me in the Dino.

Massive black woman in Explorer.

"Is that a Stingray or a Corvette?"

"It's an old Ferrari"

Big smile and a thumbs up for that answer.

 

fixt for troof

 

I was driving the 550 yesterday and stopped for a red light where an SL63 was waiting. He was much younger than the typical SL guy, probably later 30's, and looked over to size me up I guess. I'm probably 15 years younger than him though...

After a few seconds, he shrugged his shoulders and with a big smile said "TOUCHE!" and gave me a thumbs up. Cool dude.

-Joe

 

Had my first weird experience in a non-Ferrari red sports car. Just merged as usual and then the guy I got in front of started honking. I always give a really wide berth so there is no way I cut this guy off, but somehow he made it his business to pull up along side me and give me crazy dirty looks. Jeez.

 

So if you're 15 years younger than a guy in his 30s, just how old are you?

 

After reading this thread, im not sure if im regretting the comments im sure to get or if i should start thinking about witty comebacks!!!

When i first bought my M3 convertible I must have been 23 yo (but looked much younger) and was driving home one night on a friday. An SUV pulled up and this absolutely wasted redneck girl leans out and yells "Daddy let you borrow his car?" and i promptly answered "No my parents are dead" the look on her face was priceless as she shrunk back into the car and i promptly knocked on wood that nothing bad would happen to my parents!!

The 458 is going to be interesting, my sister who lives in the Bay Area, already asked if i bought the car for my house in portland (opposed to our family house in england) and where was i going to drive it and not get hassled!

 

The other night, I was out for a drive in my 348. It was dusk with a hint of sunlight still visible. I was sitting at a light when I noticed flashes of light from left side of my eye. Being summer time in Oklahoma, I am used to seeing lightning flashes in the eveing as storms build up. So I didn't think much of it. I then stopped at the next light. I then noticed a lot of flashes. I decided I better take a look to see how close the storm was getting. But when I turned my head, I saw a guy hanging way out of the passenger window snapping pictures as fast as he could. When he saw me look at him, he gave me a big smile and a thumbs up. I blipped the throttle for him. He went nuts! He started waving his hands in the air to signal for me to do it again. I then realized he switched to video and wanted to get the sound of the engine. So I gave him a couple of redline blips. I then took off from the light and ran it through the gears with he and his friend trying their best to keep up with him still hanging out of the window with his camera. I met up with them later that night and he thanked me a bunch for giving him some good stuff for his camera. I pulled over in a parking lot and I took pictures of him next to the 348 with his camera. I thought the guy was going to need to put a paper bag over his mouth and breath to keep form hyperventilating!

 

23. We met a few years ago when you had your old 355. Possibly at a charity show in Wilmington, DE.

-Joe

 

I don't remember going to Delaware. Congrats on having a 550 at 23. That's quite an accomplishment.

 

I'm pretty sure I met you and Luke at some car show. Or maybe when I came down with Jon Walton to that carting place a few years ago.

-Joe

 

Just this morning I had a couple guys flag me down in the 360. One guy asks "hey, is that a Testaverde?".
I didn't have the heart to correct him by telling him that my car doesn't play football.

Had to chuckle as I drove away.