Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

When people ask if they can take a picture of my car I tell them, "Why don't you sit in my car and I'll take a picture of you." Most people don't take me up on it but the ones that do are so excited!

 

Did that tonight. A couple of kids - I'll guess around 10 or 12 years old - walked up as I was parking and asked "Excuse me Sir, would it be OK if we took a photo of your car?"

Of course it was OK, especially when they asked so politely. So of course they got to sit in it too. (The look on the first ones face when he said "No way! Really?" was priceless.)

Edit: Their dad was pretty excited about the whole thing too. He asked them "So is this another one you're adding to your list?" They just nodded...

 

I actually got that second comment ("Kit Car") on a 512 BBi Boxer, whilst stopped at a gas station.

Have gotten nothing but positive comments on current 612 and previous 328.

 

Two comments this past weekend as I took the 599 for a road trip. One funny, one disappointing.

The funny, at a gas station getting ready to leave. "Do you mind if I listen to your car when you start it up?"! I mean of course not. I'm not going to make him plug his ears right! Nice young fellow.

The disappointing as my son and I walked to the car after stopping at a fast food joint. A car load of young guys pulling out of the parking lot and while passing by the car, the front passenger rolls down the window and says in a very sarcastic and condescending tone "Is that your Ferrari? You must be rich or something. Yea, just RICH". The kid must have been about 15 or 16. Shame to have already developed a jealously hatred at such a young age when his whole life is ahead of him and one of these cars could be in his future with the right approach to life.

 

I heard a disappointing comment this past Thursday evening, but it wasn't directed at me or my 612. I was at a local informal car show run by a rotary club to raise a little money. It's a small time event, but it's fun, everyone is nice and there's great car talk.

As I was talking to some people next to my car a boy about 10 years old was really interested in it. So I opened the door and told him to sit in the drivers seat. His face lit up and he sat there for only a minute and then got out. His father then said to him, "well that's the only time you'll sit in a Ferrari". I just said something like you never know, he may have one some day.

I'm sure the father probably didn't realize the message he was sending to his son. The disappointing part was that he didn't use that opportunity to say something like see what hard work or education will get you, or something encouraging along those lines to his son.

 

Heard this today, "Buying a Ferrari is like setting your car on fire, and then trying to smother the flames with cash." Lol

 

What a disappointing attitude for a father to take. I don't understand it. It's like those folks who say "Must be nice. Maybe in the NEXT life". WTF? What ever happened to seeing something you want, maybe even something that appears unobtainable, then setting a goal and working toward achieving it?

 

Lol

 

Sounds like the dad is a loser, who can't accomplish anything in life, and is passing that on to his son. Hopefully his son doesn't let that affect him.

I agree totally. Set a goal, and do whatever it takes (legally, morally, and ethically of course) to make it happen.

 

Classy retort.

 

I stalled at a four way stop when fuel pump blew fuses (still working those issues out).

A cop shows up, red and blue lights behind my 308. Everybody staring at me as they drive by.

COP: Is that a DeLorean?

ME: No, it's a Ferrari.

COP: Is that the one from Magnum PI?

ME: No, that one was red.

COP: What color is that?

ME: Marrone

COP: What?

ME: Brown.

 

How do you guys answer the question:
"How fast have you driven it?"

I have (obviously) had my car up in triple digits, but I don't want to sound like a pompous @sshat when I say that. Conversely, I don't like sounding like a sissy (not the word I meant to use in this case) and say I only drive it 80 mph.

So, what are some of the responses? I am thinking about this one:
"A little more than twice the speed limit, but that was on a race track." I have no idea.....

 

"Only as fast as the car in front of me."

 

Meh... most of the people who ask me that question won't get this joke. Thanks though.

 

Pulled into the gas station yesterday morning with the 360. The guy inside was going nuts about the car. He asked me if it was a 2014. I chuckled. I told him it's a 99 and it's 14 years old. He couldn't believe it.

 

Just tell them the truth.. unless its an officer asking you then tell them 55 or 60 on the street. XXX on the track.

I believe that if you try to "not be pompous" people get offended anyway at false modesty. Just be truthful.

 

Sometimes you just don't want to answer that one truthfully.
Most of the time I just smile and reply "the speed limit."
From the smile they know there's more to it.

 

How fast have you driven' it?

- Much Faster than I should

 

I always get asked 'how much did you pay for it?' To me, that's none of their business; it's akin to asking how much money someone makes per year. Now I just say 'too much'. For both questions

 

I feel bad for that kid, if I ever said that to my kids, Id hope they would smack me... good luck to that kid, prove em wrong!!!

 

I like that.
I think I'll steal it.

 

How about, "Not as fast as I could"?

 

"Too fast to look at the speedometer" is what I go with when asked about how fast I've gone in anything.

 

After I had posted this I told the story to my wife. She was a school psychologist for 33 years. She echoed your sentiments, and those of others, that this was a terrible thing for the father to say. She said that some kids would take this as a challenge and would prove their father wrong. One can only hope that is what this kid will do.

Can you imagine him driving his F12 to his father's house, his father trying out the driver's seat, and when he gets out his son saying, "Dad this is the only Ferrari you will ever sit in"!

 

My TR is having it's turbos rebuilt, mechanic that was pushing the car said, "Pushing a Ferrari is like ****ing a dead girl, she still looks hot but lot's of fluids every where and you have to do all the work."