Stereotypes

The only stereotype i worry about in the f355 is if its turned off so i can hear that 5 valve sing.

 

There’s sterotypes with misplaced apostrophes, that’s for sure.

 

Stereotypes:
348 owner - manly man
355 owner - gell-headed girly man

More?
Stooge - Real Ferraristi personally responsible for car care
360, 430, 458, 488 owner - "Is that where the oil goes?" Someone with Tony's number on speedial.
550 owner - Old guy trying to reconnect with youth image who's probably better off with a Corvette, or FBB
575 owner - A bit older than that guy
456 and 612 owner - originally a rich guy trying too hard for the wife's approval to buy a Ferrari. Now, someone who knows the value of a buck and a great deal when he sees one, or Peter SCTrojan
F40 owner - someone I will never be but try so hard to emulate, a Ferrari owning god-man!
308/328 owner - iconoclast
Dino owner - Luddite forever trying to claim Ferrari ownership of a Fiat product
Vintage V-12 Ferrarri owner (pick one) - achronistic elitist
Vintage GTO - Hedge fund manager or confidence man
F50 owner - Persian prince
Enzo owner - Saudi prince
LaFerrari owner - celebrity spoiled child, or new moneyed techno-Millenial (wait, that was for any Lamborghini). Maybe another Saudi prince
Mondial owner - Ferrari waif striving for a better model
Mondial T owner - above, but getting there
Did I miss offending anyone?

 

Great stuff, Vince! And way more true than not, I suspect. Except I’d suggest that 308GT4 owners are the iconoclasts. 308 GTB/S owners are huge Magum PI fans.

You missed TRs though. I’m curious how you’d stereotype them since I want one.

 

I’m still in my 30s

 

Chicks dig it. [emoji41]

I thought about going euro in the pool that day but didn’t want to messed up my hair since we had another stop to make. [emoji56]

 

TR owners are wanna be drug dealers from the 80's. Watch how they rub their noses a lot.

@Chup, maybe in your mind. Or you are just an old soul.

Unfortuantely, I look at GT4 owners the same way as Dino owners. "Yes it IS a REAL Ferrari!"

Aren't all 308 owners names Tom?

 

Ha!

I think my stereotype for TR owners would be "Doesn't own a tie. Or a pair of socks." IOW, the opposite of a vintage V-12 owner, who wears dress socks to bed.

As a GT4 fan, I still think "Iconoclast" is perfect, as in "We own the best of the 308 series but nobody knows that because whenever anybody says "308" the rest of the world thinks "Magnum PI". FWIW, I think many current GT4 owners actually prefer the Dino badging.

Not sure all 308GTB/S owners are named Tom (they might be, actually), but I'm pretty sure they all have moustaches.

 

The laferrari owner is true as hell. I do know a few owners that actually appreciate the brand. If they keep this up I think the brand is going to loose its mystique

 

For no long-held, 1970-born, GenX-raised reason whatsoever – my spirit animal is the Porsche 911, for crissakes – I decided to buy a Scuro blue '95 355 a couple years ago. As I've said to anyone who'll listen, and quite a few who have no ******* interest in listening at all, this car is an outrageous occasion every time I decide to get behind the wheel.

Whatever your motivation for buying it, I just hope to hell you're driving it. There is nothing like this ownership experience, whatever floor you get on to ride up.

 

And you got a good color. I think I saw your car at the E@RTC opening day.

 

Wonder where that 355 stereotype comes from?

Hair gel??...pfft, we are all just a bunch of *******s!

 

Ah yes – I was there. I think there were three 355's in attendance in total. We're keeping the faith.

 

SMART is the key word here.

Along with very good TASTE!

 

Taste maybe, smart no. Just have a look in P&R and you’d be waaaaaayyy surprised at the lack of intellegence here. It absolutely floors me reading some of the stuff people post.

 

You have quite the track record there....so you would know, right Been almost year....

BTW, "intellegence" is spelled intelligence.

 

The funny thing is, I don't know one Ferrari owner that acts like that..............................Yet that is most peoples perception.

 

That's why it is a stereotype!!!

I have found that of all the car clubs we belong to, the most open, welcoming and exciting group is the Ferrari group. Hands down....

The other owners I have met are simply fantastic, kind and intelligent people.

 

True, typo on intelligence. I mangled that iPhone typing didn’t I?

Regarding the track record, man I don’t bother with that part of fchat anymore. “Been almost year”? Not sure what you mean. If you’re saying it’s been a year since I’ve been there, it’s very possible. I like to think of the people here are car friends who share a love of Italian cars. I go in there and I just shake my head George Carlin style. So I don’t anymore.

Anyway, I was just messing around with the comment. But where there’s humor, there’s also truth. And unfortunately, there is too much truth to my comment about P&R.

 

Whatever dude. Whatever...your post is mostly humor. I found it hilarious!

I love George Carlin! Surprised you do to:

 

Not sure why that would be surprising, you don’t know me at all, but ok. So we share a love of Carlin and Ferraris. Awesome.

 

Of course I know you. I read all your latest P&R posts.