Funniest/Stupidest comments you have received about your Ferrari

That is awesome. LMAO

 

+1

and (although I don't believe it as I'd take a Ford GT in a heartbeat) "The last pretty thing Ford ever made were the B-24's I worked on at Willow Run" has too be one of the all-time great quick-thinking automotive quips ever

 

Even though Studebakers were/are kind of a thing in the family I always liked "the last good Studebaker I saw had a tongue sticking out the front.



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Haven't had the chance to read every comment but there is some great ones that I have read. I guess I need to give the back story to make sense.

My wife was a black woman and when she became pregnant she started to look around for a new car in preparation of our twins. I have many to choose from but we wanted modern conveniences and especially side air bags when looking at stats of side collisions and injuries. Most of the dealerships I went with her to look at the rides. She wanted to get a SUV because she was used to those having owned the LX SUV. She really liked driving M-B's and her initials were S.L. and I guess an image thing to her but I was not getting an M class SUV back in late 2003. I told her the third seat was an afterthought and was not engineered for one from the get go. So one day she went into a Jersey Ferrari dealership when visiting her relatives. She sat for awhile and someone eventually helped her and she asked to look at the Ferrari wagons or maybe they made an SUV and I guess the man laughed at her. She tried to explain that I owned one but she didn't know the model number when asked. She came home really pissed off being ignored or as she put it discriminated against and laughed at. She was about 5 months PG and you know you don't mess with a pregnant black woman who is caring twins and complications because her thyroid went hyperactive during the pregnancy. When that happened I shipped a M-B from the west coast back to Greenwich. One day we went into the Ferrari dealership with one of the cars I procured from Brunei. She is not a car person and would not understand in 100 years. She told the same salesman that she had her Ferrari wagon and maybe he could educate himself better and take some notes and if he can give a trade-in estimate. I just sat down and laughed when they went outside because they did not know what to make of the Venice Estate wagon. She showed them it had a V12 and made up some top speed. You should have seen those two shaking their heads. They went to look on the internet for intel and she told one man to give her a call when they knew their product better.

Ended up getting a '04 Lexus GL SUV(LX was long in tooth at the time) for the girls that year and she was delighted when she saw Ralph Lauren have the same blue mica GL in his driveway on a visit.

 

[quote="StormBringer";143414495]Haven't had the chance to read every comment but there is some great ones that I have read. I guess I need to give the back story to make sense.

My wife was a black woman and when she became pregnant she started to look around for a new car in preparation of our twins. I have many to choose from but we wanted modern conveniences and especially side air bags when looking at stats of side collisions and injuries. Most of the dealerships I went with her to look at the rides. She wanted to get a SUV because she was used to those having owned the LX SUV. She really liked driving M-B's and her initials were S.L. and I guess an image thing to her but I was not getting an M class SUV back in late 2003. I told her the third seat was an afterthought and was not engineered for one from the get go. So one day she went into a Jersey Ferrari dealership when visiting her relatives. She sat for awhile and someone eventually helped her and she asked to look at the Ferrari wagons or maybe they made an SUV and I guess the man laughed at her. She tried to explain that I owned one but she didn't know the model number when asked. She came home really pissed off being ignored or as she put it discriminated against and laughed at. She was about 5 months PG and you know you don't mess with a pregnant black woman who is caring twins and complications because her thyroid went hyperactive during the pregnancy. When that happened I shipped a M-B from the west coast back to Greenwich. One day we went into the Ferrari dealership with one of the cars I procured from Brunei. She is not a car person and would not understand in 100 years. She told the same salesman that she had her Ferrari wagon and maybe he could educate himself better and take some notes and if he can give a trade-in estimate. I just sat down and laughed when they went outside because they did not know what to make of the Venice Estate wagon. She showed them it had a V12 and made up some top speed. You should have seen those two shaking their heads. They went to look on the internet for intel and she told one man to give her a call when they knew their product better.

Ended up getting a '04 Lexus GL SUV(LX was long in tooth at the time) for the girls that year and she was delighted when she saw Ralph Lauren have the same blue mica GL in his driveway on a visit.[/quote]

Uh huh... Right...

 

Lol....

By the way, why is he banned?

 

"Stormbringer" has a long history of fabricated car tales and bans across a number of automotive sites. If you review his posting history, the tone of every post is one of self-promotion, "custom" this, "special ops" that, etc. Several of his claims were demonstrably false when we asked around about him and he got tiresome, so the mod team nuked him - he's not coming back.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Are you sure? I heard "they can't put anything on the internet if it isn't true"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_CgPsGY5Mw

 

Interesting. And true. He made a few claims in F1 that I thought about throwing the BS flag on. I don't get why they do it. I guess not many sites have a Dr S lurking, but they're always 'exposed' sooner or later......

Anyway, do you have much 'interaction' with mod teams on other sites? Or just some of you hang out elsewhere? (Doesn't Rob frown on that... )

Cheers,
Ian

 

The Brunei Venice Estate wagon connection was interesting. Was not aware that Ferrari/Pininafarina made four door family wagons. Got to keep that info from my wife.

 

Rob really doesn't mind if we're on other forums as well. For example, I am on a few MINI forums and was even a founder member of one, though I actually seldom log into them anymore.

Mainly, your moderating servants are just well-practised at sleuthing on the internet.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Ugh! That's gross. Well, at least yours was of some monetary value. I don't get attention from "haters" that much when I drive my 360, but I'm gonna classify the $5 hillbilly as one of them. The audacity! I gave him a baffled look and sped off.

The other day, I was getting gas and a girl with an EVO of some variation came up to me. She asked if she could take pictures of the car (she was the butch-type) and I obliged her. Then, she proceeded to tell me how her car was proven to beat a Lambo on some old episode of Top Gear, so I congratulated her. Then she told me if she had a Ferrari it would never leave her garage. I asked her why? She said that the roads in Ohio aren't that great (which I happen to disagree with - they're OK). I told her I was sad to hear that, and that the car was happiest on the road and designed to be driven enthusiastically. Anything to the contrary would be a waste, just be careful and responsible.

Some people have the wrong idea about Ferrari ownership. A 360 Spider isn't a collector's item. Even if it were, it was still built to be driven!

 

Last week someone offered to buy my car at a traffic light.
Further down the road I was asked if it were a real Ferrari or a kit.
Takes all types it seems.

 

Sat night I was getting my wifes jacket out of the boot (355 mind you) and a guy asked me if I was checking the oil...

 

OMG! There's no oil in here!

 

Last Sat. nite at red light in North Raleigh. I hear a guy say "Nice Car Man!' I look to my left and two lanes over is a guy with his head outside the passenger side window. He says "Is that a Ferrari?" I nod my head. Then, pointing to the shields on the 430 he yells out: "It is! I see the Ferrari sign!"

 

I was in the luggage compartment of my 360 outside of my office this morning. A man who works elsewhere in my same multi-office complex (and parks near the area where I park my cars every day) approached me. He's a nice fellow, always waves when he sees me, that sort of thing. Drives a Honda Fit.

He walked up to me and said "I hope you're not having engine trouble!" I had to stop and think for a second - why would he say that? Then I looked at his face and noticed his smile, he was joking about the location of my engine. Then he walked around the front of the car and complimented the size of the luggage compartment: "It's not too small for a sports car, but you can't get golf clubs in there." To which I replied: "No, I haven't tried to haul my clubs in this car yet." That was it.

 

I'd have told him that my valet had already dropped my golf bag at the club in the estate wagon.

 

I'd say who wants to follow a little white ball around when you could be out driving your Ferrari?

 

Keeping with the golf theme, last summer I pulled up to the bag drop with my 612. As I got out of the car the attendant said to me, "I know you don't have a set of clubs in there".

I said, "you're right, I have two sets of clubs in there". I then promptly took out my set and my wife's set.

Actually I was as incredulous as he was when I first realized I could get two sets (albeit carry bags) in the trunk. Gotta love a 4 seater GT!

 

I keep my clubs at the club.

 

I do'nt play golf

 

I don't play games.

 

Just saw this thread now, but this event happened last year. I took the 355 over to the gas station next to where I live. As I'm pumping gas, a guy walks up to me and (completely serious) says:

"Hey man, cool Corvette! What year is it?"

I reply "Thanks! It's a '95, but it's not a real Corvette...it's just a kit car."

He looks at me kind of disappointed and with eyes of sadness towards me, shrugs his shoulders and says "well, it's still pretty cool, though."

I just smiled.

 

"I met a guy that bought a new 458 and put a Corvette engine in it. He spent a bunch of money getting everything right to where the Corvette engine would bolt right in and look like a Ferrari engine."

Heard this at the GM F-body show in Myrtle Beach this weekend.