Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

Man----that one made me laugh. Great story.

 

I think that comment was directed towards Bush 1, not Bush 2, right?

 

Sounds like something Ann would have said.

 

"If I owned that car I'd be in jail"

 

Quote:
Originally Posted by schefdeh5 View Post
Random Curly Haired Dude: "Nice car...what's the retail on one of those?"
F355 Owner: "More than you can afford PAL.....Ferrari."

I think he was referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJSjR1Zg0mo

 

That is harsh, and quite frankly arrogant. I would never say that, nor anything even remotely close to it

 

- You would if you were driving a Supra on PCH... Just sayin'

 

Do you guys really not get that reference? haha!

 

Well, I get it but only after looking at the posted link. How are adults supposed to recognize obscure dialogue from some silly teen move about cars?

Now, had the reference been to the well known Woodill Wildfire and Johnny Dark (the greatest car film ever made), that would be different.

 

Ha! Read this whole thread, good stuff.

Don't down on the MR2. Most of them don't have 700 hp like a new Aventador, but they embody the driving style of mid engine exotics. For some, it may be the only way to experience that.

It fact, I think anyone wanting to drive a high power MR exotic should have to go through driving training with an MR2. If you can't handle a 200 hp 2, stay the hell away from the real super cars.

If this advice was followed we would see far fewer totaled F's and L's on coparts with one thousand miles on the odo.

Anyway back to the topic from the other side of the mirror:

I had a 1991 MR2 turbo for years and received similar comments and misconceptions about the car.

Typical conversation:

Him: Man, you are always washing that car! Can't someone with a Ferrari pay to have that done?
Me: I like my car clean and it's not a Ferrari, its a old Toyota'
Him: This is a Toyota? *looks very disappointed* What year?
Me: 1991. Not very many were imported.
Him: Oh yeah, my dad/brother/cousin/uncle had one of these. Can I see the twin turbos.
Me: It only has the one turbo, but it is labeled as twin entry.
Him: *blank look* But my (relative's) was a twin turbo v6. You must have a lower trim level.
Me: All MR2s were 4 cylinders from the factory.

Then they continue to argue with me about a car I have owned and researched for ten years.

Him: Wish I could afford something like this. Must be nice.
Me: You drive a sixty thousand dollar SUV. You could buy eight or ten of these. You could buy the best example of all three generations and still have plenty of money left over.
Him: *stares like they don't believe you*
Me: I'll sell you mine for five grand.
Him: No thanks.

Other comments:

How fast is it?
How fast will it go?
How fast have you driven it?
Can I drive it?
Are you sure it's rear wheel drive?
Nice batmobile (my car was black)
Do you get a lot a speeding tickets?
How do you fit in that? (I'm not a small guy, getting out of the 2 looked like a magic trick)
Where are the headlights?
How much did it cost?

And for some reason there is a widespread delusion at auto part places that it is a front wheel drive Mazda. Never figured that one out.


It's not just your Fcars, anything sporty and unusual has to face these questions.

 

I have a fresh one. Just today. Yesterday, I called the local dealership to have a look at my car, just seasonal stuff for now. Today I called AAA to send a flatbed for my BLACK Mondial. I've got the AAA guy on the phone and I tell him it's a Ferrari. He's shocked. He asks the model, I say - and spell - Mondial. He says, "Hm. Never heard of that one. I'm going to have to look that up." Then silence. The next thing he says is, "Oh, it's got a back seat. And the pop up headlights." He was googling it while I had him on the phone. That's pretty much the end of the conversation. He says the guy will be here whenever. The guy calls and says he's about 10 minutes out. Great. Faster than I was told. I start jockeying cars around to take the Mondial out of the garage and get my dd out of the way so we could load it easily. I'm in the car moving it when the tow truck guy shows up, and he yells something to me out his window. I go see what he wants, and he says, where's the red one? Confused, I ask, What red one? He says he was told he was picking up a red Ferrari. The AAA guy never asked me the color. He just assumed it was red. The tow truck guy ended up being cool. We talked for a while. What an experience. Made me laugh all the way through. After he left I thought, I've got a good one for this thread.

Regards,
Brian

 

Heard "Nice car. Playing Magnum today, huh?" as I filled up the 308.

Could have been worse I guess.

 

I think my worst is still:

"You get paid too damn much money." from a security guard as I was going through the gates to Fort Sill Oklahoma in my Army Uniform blatantly displaying my enlisted grade.


In retrospect I thought of about 10000 things I could have or should have said, but simply drove away instead.



PDG

 

Got this today when I was on the phone with the insurance company getting a stone chip repair taken care of..."A Ferrari
huh.....who makes Ferrari? I was like.....um Ferrari makes Ferrari"

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At the red lights with my F430 and a young man pulls up beside me in his Ricer and yells out "What's wrong??!! Can't afford a Lamborghini???"

 

Just last week "If I had a Ferrari I'd drive alone in the carpool lane"

 

That's when you respond, "Bring yours and we'll talk about it".

 

I like this one

 

"My Lamborghini is what I use for my winter beater" would have been an ideal response

 

I was showing my 550's engine to someone the other day, and they asked if it was turbocharged

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My answer to this is usually, I wouldn't want a lambo. A repair can cost as much as my whole car is worth. (Mondial 3.2 cab)

Regards,
Brian

 

I told one of my coworkers that I bought a 328.

Then a few months later, he asked "How well do car seats fit in the back of your 3-series? I'm looking at a 328ix"

 

LOL! I had a similar experience when I first got the 308 and was ringing around getting quotes for an immobiliser (I always refer to the car as a 308, never use the F word!). Guy says to me "that's an old Monaro, right?" and he was right, that was the correct designation for the original Monaro so I had to mumble something like "no, the other 308 - the Italian one". Have also had people assume I meant a Peugeot.

 

Seriously, I think it's a bit too much to assume people would be able to know you are referring to that 308 just by saying the number.... not that it was produced until last week...

 

"Did you really pay a million dollars for your car??"


"Do you really have to do a $5000 service every month in that thing?"



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