Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

Actually, they're sorta similar, both Pininfarina designed, especially viewed from the rear.

 

I suppose that I am a sucker for anything designed by Pininfarina. The 406 coupé was actually built by Pininfarina. So, it is technically an Italian car with French mechanicals. If you want one, just trot down to Mexico, find a good one for about $10k. Slap US plates on it and drive it over. If asked, you should make a point of forgetting to declare this minor purchase. Buy some MX goods, declare those.
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I can see the similarities with that and the 456/550s. Interesting.

 

Well, as I see there is still some interest in the Peugeots designed by Pininfarina, and "just to satisfy popular demand", here are three links to three adds (I have no vested interest, etc...) for three 504 cabriolets in very good condition...the car was designed in 1969 by pininfarina, these three models are an early one, a middle production, a late production.
Nice little convertible, isn't it? Too bad it didn't have an engine worthy of its design...
Hope the threads works...enjoy.

http://www.gt-spirit.fr/fr/voiture/peugeot-504-cabriolet-injection,1302517.html

http://www.gt-spirit.fr/fr/voiture/peugeot-504-cabriolet,1302421.html

http://www.gt-spirit.fr/fr/voiture/peugeot-504-cabriolet,1302475.html

 

Is that a Geo?
Hummmm, ......
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Well if you squint realllly hard perhaps.

Weren't that the model the "twins" were in Cars?

 

You must have children!
I had to do a Google search the movie, "Cars"

 

Recently, a guy asked me if my 308 was "one of the new ones, with the twin turbos". Though bemused, I took it as a compliment.

 

He was thinking of the new McLaren perhaps?

 

The Geo needs to learn to smile.

 

He knew right off that it was a Ferrari; can't figure out what he was thinking.

 

You know.. that's given me an idea! I drive my Boxster to work and my colleagues are OK with that. If I get some cheap stick on Porsche emblems and stick em' over the front, rear and fender badges I could tell them I just traded in the Boxster for a "newer european only porsche model".

Only problem is someone would have to be a "car guy" or "car gal" and figure it out!

 

This one falls under the "funny comments":

While fueling up yesterday, a gentleman comes up to me and says "I'm glad you had the balls to buy a yellow one, everyone seems to think that Ferraris have to be red"

 

I am by nature an introvert. I have a difficult time with the attention my 360 garners. I live in SW Michigan so there isn't a lot of serious wealth (not that I'm seriously wealthy by any means) and a Ferrari really sticks out. I dread gas stations. But I have a love for anything engineered with such beauty and efficiency. Hence my attraction to Swiss watches as well. Just interests I have that I dont particularly care to share with others (i am not complaining and I would never snub anyone interested in my car it just makes me uncomfortable).

 

+1

 

I love my car and do not like some of the attention it garners. I drive it because I like it and not because I want to be seen in it. A lot of people think it is cool, it is, but others just think Ferrari and money (yes and no). Funny how the brand effects some people.

 

Very true. My father wouldn't drive his 308 because of the negative impression even though his friends had boats that cost much much more. I'm not that reclusive because my 360 is an unblievable car that begs to be driven.

 

I agree.. Sometimes the attention is way too much, but the beauty of the car and the sound it generates makes it all worth it. The thing that bothers me the most are the people that want to touch it. I was waiting for my wife to come out of a store recentley and a nice older gentleman came over to look and ask questions. He did this while leaning with both his hand's on the passenger door. I was trying to be patient and speak with him, but as soon as he left I had to get out and speed shine his palm prints off the door. It was making me crazy.

 

Yesterday a nice looking girl pulled up next to the 360 in a gas station.

She asked: is that a REAL Ferrari?

I replied: it was when I bought it.

She told me she lived in Naples for nine years.

 

That's one reason (of many) that I don't like kit cars that attempt to replicate Ferraris: A lot of people just assume that what I'm driving is not a real Ferrari.

Cool story otherwise, though!

 

I was asked once how much coke I had done...obviously Ferrari owners are so cashed up they all indulge in illicit narcotics!! I told him I did boatloads, that's why my nose is so damn big lol!!

 

said to me at a gas station once by a pimply faced kid

"A Corvette is faster"

I said...so

 

+360

 

had to laugh the other night. some ninny, looking at the engine says, "oh the motor's in the back just like my feiro,"

 

LOL, I would have said "yes, that's where Ferrari got the idea to do that"