1st ferrari driving experience, finally

I dunno...

It's a tough call
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Nice ratio...... Pretty soon you will have stroked your way out of favor with the dealers around here the same way......

What then, will you move out of state or blow up AA meetings?

 

did i mention his name is chad and he lives in north hollywood?

 

My words were an answer to your specific question and advice for the immediate future; not an invitation to unwarranted repetitions of unqualified opinion. Listen to the advice and you'll probably do OK, continue as you have and you probably won't.

 

YES!
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Oh, my bad, I didn't mean to throw a little comic relief into your "Making myself look like a horse's ass" thread!


BTW, what the hell are you doing inside on this beautiful day? Even in the 818 IT'S TEST DRIVIN' WEATHER!!!!!!! Woot!

 

Oh man, tears are rolling down my cheeks because I am laughing so hard.

Chad, if you think that people are giving you a hard time for so reason, consider this: I, like almost everyone else here, bought two Ferraris w/ no test drives and only a ppi. Hell, one of them I never even laid eyes on until it showed up at my house in a trailer. When the time came to sell, guess what? The buyer didn't test drive either. Just a ppi. Not to say that I've never test driven a car but there was only one time, iirc, I test drove a car without a cashiers check in hand and that was a Porsche (which I was ready to buy pending a relocation that was more than likely imminent, that I told the salesman about). The only time I test drove a Ferrari was to compare two models and I was buying one or the other, that day, cashiers check in hand.

A top Ferrari dealer had this on their faq page regarding test drives:

"Here's what we know: Drivers aren't buyers and buyers aren't drivers....it's THE oldest rule in exotic car sales, and it is 100% accurate. Real buyers simply don’t even ask. We aren't the local amusement park, and this isn't the local Ford dealership. As a business, we won’t risk a valuable automobile for your amusement. There's no shortage of folks who would love to spend their day entertaining themselves at our expense, playing Ferrari/Bentley/etc buyer."

I'm not even going to comment on the part about your coming on here and doing a full on write up about freaking test drive. I will also leave out the part everyone else seems to have already pointed out, which is your spouting off useless BS about cars you know next to nothing about.

Lastly, I will say that I am glad that you got to drive a car although I would have preferred for it not have been at the expense of some poor salesman's day.

 

ROFL!

 

That is exactly what you're not qualified to judge.

What gave you the idea this was a debate.

 

I'm sorry but this is just sooo boring. Could you please use PMs for your little private war? Thank you

I don't know what to say... absolutely r i d i c u l o u s is probably the best word to call it.
FWIW I did contemplate for a long time about buying, I did ask hundreds of questions, I did test drive 6 Ferraris until I finally decided to go for a 360. So did many friends of mine... guess the 100% rule is useless...
Am I really supposed to pay a huge amount of money just to find out if a Ferrari is what I need??
And tell me, how would you know how the F1 transmission feels if you have never tried it?
I also test drove the F430 thoroughly before buying it, needed to make sure it was worth selling my beloved 360!

Buying the wrong car would seriously pi$$ me off, waste money and time. Test driving can and probably will save you from all that

No point in not doing it!

 

man i've been waiting to use this. thanks!
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You missed the Corvette Forum, where he's responsible for an almost 600 post thread and earned this insightful summary from one of their members after tiring everyone out with inane repetition:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showpost.php?p=1560268838&postcount=578

 

You've already dissed several who had very qualified comments with your pseudo-expertise, so why waste time trying to educate you? If you want to learn about the Ferrari market, search the forum. There are much more qualified opinions than yours that have already discussed the market or specific cars.

One thing about this forum, is that we've learned not to waste 600 posts on a poster who hasn't contributed anything meaningful but thinks they have. We don't have to prove ourselves and we know a bull**** artist when we see one.

However, we are perfectly prepared to waste 600 posts if you can make it sufficiently amusing. Research airplane takeoffs or alpinesilver19 for examples. You have to give us a show if you want a place at the table.

 

"Finally, I don't mean to attack bonzelite as a person, I am sure he is a great guy, but his arguments of repeating the same thing with no credible proof was wearing. I hope that he has learned something from this thread other then the Corvette forum members are narrowminded and stubborn because if that is all he learned it is sad."

nope

 

Wait, wait, wait. This is BS. You KNEW the approximate price range of the car. You SHOULD'VE KNOWN it was out of your budget. Any feelers on how flexible the seller was to bring the price down to your affordability range should've gone out BEFORE you test drove the car.

You didn't follow this. You picked a car you couldn't afford in your wildest wet dreams and drove it for the heck of it.

It was someone else's car, not a test mule at a dealership. The implied contract between seller and buyer is that you're (realistically) serious in-principle about buying a car before testing it. You were not.

While your opinions on non-Ferrari sports cars evoked some sympathy and agreement in me, this stunt of yours has done neither. I would personally NEVER test drive another person's car unless I was honorable in my intention to buy the car if it turned out good. As far as I'm concerned, the test-drive is always the penultimate test before a full PPI followed by the transaction itself.

(BTW, sorely tempted though I was, I *have* actually declined offers to test drive exotics when I couldn't afford them.)