Jealousy and rude on roads.

I've only had my car for about 1.5 months and most of that time has been positive like you mentioned with thumbs up, waves, or cell phone pics. I actually find it humorous in the way that most try to be subtle in taking pics of the car, whether standing on the sidewalk or driving next to you, yet it's done so obviously that you can't help but smile or laugh.

However, I did get a soccer mom in a SUV who cussed me out and flipped me off bc I went through an intersection where I had the right of way and she was waiting in the other direction to make an unprotected left turn. I have no other reason to think that she went off on me other than bc I was driving a Ferrari. There were cars that were in front of me that went through and didn't get cussed out or flipped off so the ugly head of jealously definitely came out of her on that one. Just shrug it off and don't bother with them, in the end, it's your car, who cares what other people think.

 

Drive a BMW, and you’ll get it all the time. I drive the same no matter what I drive, and I get rude reactions far more in the BMW then I do in an Excursion. For example, guy waiting for his special shade of green to appear, I beep the horn once quickly. In the BMW, raised center finger. In the Excursion, nothing. Get behind a woman in the left lane sight seeing, she moved over and then the finger. Same situation in the truck, nothing.

 

I get some of that behaviour when I'm not even driving my Ferrari lol.
Maybe there's something about how you drive as well....either too slow and deliberate (which is a drag to drive behind) or too presumptuous.
Hard to tell what others are thinking. But I'm sure some ppl try and put one over the "rich guy " in the only way they know they can,
Forget about it and just enjoy yourself.

 

Try a RR same result. haters are going to hate... I will say that in my new car people freak out in a positive way and whip out their cameras and I get smiles and thumbs up - never got that in my Ferrari's for whatever reason.

 

You may have just run into someone having a bad day. At the end of the day, you're driving a Ferrari, and 90% of the people on the road would likely trade cars with you in a heart beat...T

 

I guess it also has some to do with where you live. In LA, you can get the middle finger any day and every day. I just wave back with the same one... this in my Ferrari, Mercedes, or Honda.

 

It happens. First month of owning my 430, a guy on a motorcycle who passed me going in the opposite direction flipped me off. I had my son in the car and we both looked at each other and wondered why? But as others have said, it was mainly positive. I was surprised at the number of younger people who gave me a thumbs up though.

 

Nothing so far with the 360. But with that said, I did have a similar incident in my 911. Same thing, me in my 911 behind a guy on a 4 lane divided highway in a Hyundai. He was in the left lane with no real traffic to speak of. He was going 30mph in a 45mph zone. I am patient and never tailgate. After a 1/4 mile it became obvious he was not going to move over into the right lane. So (again with virtually no traffic) I pulled over into the right lane, downshifted, and cruised by him. I got about 4 to 5 car lengths ahead and dipped back into the left lane.

At the next red light I stop and a young guy in his twenties in the Hyundai pulls up next to me, gets out of his car and starts ranting. The passenger side window is up so I really cannot tell what he's yelling. But he yells and then spits on my window, goes back into his Hyundai grabs something (metal, I heard it hit) and throws it at my car. He's in the right turn lane and I'm in the straight lane, and the light changes and he turns.

Now I'm not a small guy and I thought about confronting him but my maturity got the best of me. Anyone can have a bad day but, brother, WTF?

So far so good with the 360. Only had it since late August and everyone seems to be cool with it. But you never know...

 

Sorry this happened, but it doesn’t seem to matter what you drive. People do this to other cars, too. It’s just that you don’t think your car is a causative factor because other cars are not a Ferrari. There are other drivers who are jerks, and just are that way. Enjoy your car and don’t let other drivers’ behavior get to you. You worked hard for your car and deserve to drive it on public roads just as much as everyone.


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I tend to just look forward while driving these days. Not to say my situational awareness is absent. When I drive my hummer H1, that thing is very hard to ignore and the command presence is made even more so with dual military antennas and added armor. People who choose to negatively get your attention just want YOU to give them attention. Notice meeee tooooo!!!! Also road rage is a thing.

Just keep driving and enjoy!

 

With some people they are definitely jealous and having a bad day and they see this exotic car on the road and they decide they are going to take their frustrations out on you. I have had similar incidents best thing to do is to avoid them and ignore. I also found it's best to be careful where you take these exotic cars best to be in areas where people are classy and have respect.

 

Never ever ever happened to me in the TR. Only love for the TR. Feel like a rockstar driving it


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My problem was Mustangs who would come up next to me and "rev" their engines. For some reason it was always Mustangs.

I did get more "thumbs up" though, even from the Metro Las Vegas Police department.

 

I also think it’s partly because of the holiday season. I was driving in a mall parking lot the other day and a crazy mom in a minivan thought she could steal a parking space from me. Turns out she misread my intent. I wasn’t interested in the space. She practically crashed two cars to get to it. Really all I could do was laugh since there was no competition for the space, yet she went nuts over it.

 

My guess is that people are jealous and want to feel like they are ahead of the guy in the Ferrari at least once in their miserable life, that´s why they cut you off or don´t let you in. First three days of ownership i got a bottle thrown at my 430 for no reason. Car was just parked with engine off.

 

I live in a small Northern European country where's basically everything costs a fortune due the ridiculous taxation and a "welfare society" with free dental care, free health care, free unemployment care etc. Fuel costs a fortune (at least 2x more than lets say in the USA), cars cost 1,5-2x more than in the USA, yearly "enviroment based car taxation" is ridiculous etc. So basically here's no real exotic cars around like Lamborghinis or Aston Martins. but plenty of Porsche's and performance Audis, Mercs etc. During this whole summer season 2017 I saw a Ferrari maybe 3-4 times on the road (except for Cars & Coffee type of events). There's like 2 Aventador's in the whole country of 5,6 million peoples.

Anyway, with my former Porsche there was some serious "road rage", ppls racing from the traffic lights, blocking, kind of yelding over you and so forth. With my 360 Modena, which is a rare car around here, nothing. Not a single issue during the "summer season" of 2017 and around 6k miles driven with her. 99% of commuters are "thumbs up", opening their windows in order to hear the Ferrari engine (even while I'm not revving nor accelerating). Of course there's always those who are just annoyed, they pretend they don't see the car, they pretend they do not care, they try their best to ignore that there's a Ferrari at the traffic lights (compared how rare even a 360 Modena is over here). Those kind of peoples just make me laugh, plain sight. Its so sad if someones fortune makes someone else feeling angry or disrespectful.

 

It’s just some people’s bizarre nature at times, and that half or more of the population is medicated and not in full control of their emotions or actions. I’ve had people bump into me in a store then tell me to “watch out”. Out in a ratty work truck, made eye contact, nodded and smiled at the driver in a car coming by the opposite direction and got the bird. People are often just peaved about some thing or another and looking for a dog to kick. Mirror neurons......they likely just got offended themselves, so the natural thing to do, in their mind, is offend someone else.

 

People in Prius’s aren’t jealous, they think we are jerks for driving cars that may be hurting our environment. I have been driving Ferrari’s for 12 years and I generally get positive responses.

Just moved to central PA and young men in large pickups are the subset that target me the most for “racing”. I love to have them race me and I limp along as they blow my doors off, I love that.

 

People in cars flipping you off , is in their world, a perceived safe way of venting their frustrations knowing that they are in a protected environment where there would be no verbal or physical confrontation from the other person. My attitude toward them is "F....em if they can't take a joke"

After all, I live in New Jersey.

 

Guys in Porsches usually try n bait me into a "race". Haha... I don't bite.

Lamborghini drivers are worse.

While on the freeway, a large pack of cars sometimes forms around me which results in uneasiness. I'll drop the hammer to pull away
... and you all know that doesnt take much.

Have never been flipped off while driving the Spider.... lots of pointing though.

 

Here in Silicon Valley, there are a lot of nice cars... but we still have our run-ins with those who are clearly jealous. Whether driving the 16M or the Huracan Spider, people are taking my car's picture all the time, I don't mind that except when they do stupid things to get close and sometimes at speed. The people who are clearly the most put-off are guys in work trucks (pickups or vans). When I see these trucks, I give them a wide berth because a) it's not their truck and b) they never give way and actually go out of their way to become a nuisance to me.

When you have these cars, you need to drive defensively 100% of the time. If you drive overly aggressively, park poorly or act entitled you'll only bring down more of this behavior.

 

Yes, there are lots of nice folks out there (they never seem to run in packs, though) who give a thumbs-up or a wave. Unfortunately, they're few and far between - most people these days don't appear to be worth the oxygen they're wasting and will go out of their way to vent whatever little frustrations they think they have, not discounting pure malevolence, of course.

Live is way too short to ever worry about what anyone else thinks of you, but some of the aggressive behavior described above is eventually not going to end well for the perpetrators.

 

I definitely hear what you're saying and don't disagree, by any means. My situational awareness is always high, on the road and off - especially so when driving the F-car (though the same effect was possibly even worse in the Ultima) - and defensive driving is the only intelligent approach to take.

That said, the notion that one's own behavior is somehow responsible for the aggression of others seems akin to suggesting that a girl's short skirt is responsible for her being assaulted. While it's impossible to rule out as a contributing factor, I'll put the blame squarely and entirely on the perp.