Anyone Feel Guilty Driving Your Ferrari These Days

But that is because there is salt and snow on the roads....Therefore I don't. If the weather was different, there would be no guilt at all. Like many of the posts before summed up into 4 words "Here today, gone tomorrow."

 

it quickly went away when i drove through the new river tunnel with the windows down and the exhaust singing. Man that was awesome!!!!!

 

Im with you brother!

My car has been sitting for a few weeks, havent really had time to drive it.

 

Hell no I'm not guilty.

 

Uh, Guilty- No. But sometimes I feel pretty silly for sinking so much money into a GTSi....

 

Something else to consider:

At times, Congress passes a "luxury tax" on private planes and boats. The people who wind up suffering from those taxes are the low wage workers at private airports and marinas. Airplane mechanics, boat maintenance people, etc.

So driving a Ferrari supports a lot of people in service and parts deparments.
A four wheel "economic stimulus" package.

 

I came from the poorest of poor and have worked extremely hard to to get to this point in life, I am not a silver spoon fed kid and appreciate everything I have today, including my family which comes first.

I will continue to enjoy my cars because I purchased them for me. My life is full of dreams and I will not let those whom are lazy and jealous keep me from achieving my goals in this life.

Drive them hard and loud
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I drove my car(f430) last night and was lucky enough to drive through a tunnel with the windows down. That brought me back to the early 90's, when I did the same thing in my Volkswagen Fox. Its a lot more fun in the Ferrari!!!!! NO GUILT here!!!

 

I have a story... when I was maybe 18 - 19, I was visiting my parents back home, and at the time my dad had a Porsche 356, 930 and a Lotus Esprit... we were never rich, but I guess for my home town we were ok, both parents worked house paid for etc...

so I'm driving the 356 one afternoon and at a corner this little girl could only have been maybe 1 -2 years old pointed at the car and made a sound... her mother turned around and said "Thats a dirty rich persons car you dont want that!" At that time I was amused, and just thought - "your a low life" but over the years it always bothered me that that little girl would think that because you have a nice car that you are a "Dirty rich person" ... so that really changed the way I think when I drive my 328... I try to make sure that I dont come arcoss as a "dirty rich person" cause :

1. I'm not even close to being rich

2. I hope people - kids will respect the person much more than the car once they can talk to you.

3. I bought the car for my own pleasure and it means I can be part of the Ferrari History ...

 

Don't feel so bad. I'm doing the same thing!

 

Living well is the sweetest revenge!
I don't own a Ferrari and am far from being wealthy, but I have been grieved driving my 1970 Porsche 914! People can be small...
Enjoy
Smoke em if you got em
Drive em if they are not on jack stands!!

 

914s are hot! I wanted one when I was in college but couldn't afford it while working part time at Pep Boys at the time. Enjoy it.

 

I had a new CD radio installed in my 308 a few years ago.

When I went to pick it up, two boys about 10 or 11 came running out of the shop shouting, "That's a Ferrari! Look at that!"

Their panicked mother was shouting, "Don't touch it! Don't touch it!"

I told the boys that I touch it all the time; it won't break. I even let them sit in the passenger's seat, with their mother's permission.

That woman thought I'd done something magnificent for the boys. What she didn't realize was that her own car, a plain-looking but new Mercedes cabriolet, probably cost her 2 to 3 times what I paid for my Ferrari!

I think some people look at the marque - especially with Ferraris, Porsches, and other "high-end" cars - and the fact that it's a sports car, and immediately assume it belongs to an obnoxious "rich" person. And many don't know a GTB from a GTO.

I'm not rich, and I'm not obnoxious about what I drive (or about anything else.)

I think that people who make stereotypical judgments about a person because of their car reflect more on their character than they do on the person who's driving it.

 

Not guilty as charged.
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Well not quite a Ferrari, but I had to share since I had a situation almost identical to this. I was driving the C6 Z06 down a sidestreet and a young boy, maybe 5 or 6 also, was with his mom walking their dog. I pulled up to a stop sign and I hear the boy say, "Whooaa mommy what kind of car is that?!" She said she didn't know and I just smiled, waved to the boy, and drove off. Had to be one of the best experiences in that car. Seeing how excited it made someone was a great feeling.

Now relating to the topic... Know that for every loser that spits on your car there are probably 9 other people who admire you and who aspire to be in your position one day. The American dream is certainly not dead; it's just clouded by all of the damn political correctness. I had to leave the University of Iowa because of the environment. I can only imagine how long a Ferrari would last at a big University. Overnight it would probably be covered in spraypaint, reading, "Be Green" or some other lame, liberal slogan.

This is coming from an outside viewpoint since I do not own a Ferrari.

 

I also had a bad two years at the Univ of Iowa during my fellowship. It started when some people in my lab asked if I starched my white oxford shirts. It went downhill from there. Towa City is like something out of NPR radio.

 

Unfortunately, some people out there struggle to deal with their own problems and instead take them out on others who they see as "luckier" than themselves. Its a worldview that views life as a zero-sum game, where the only reason someone can get ahead is if they screw someone else. It's a shameful attitude, but it seems to have seeped into all corners of our society.

Buy and drive a car to enjoy it, not to change what other people think about you. Worrying about what people are going to think about you based on the car you drive is a waste of time and will just let you down. Enjoy it the way Enzo intended you to!

 

Guilt is a useless emotion

 

No, it sounds too sweet.

 

I don't use it much, but am always amazed at the response at the sponsor's Brewery Tours.

Never a day passes without plenty of tourists snapping pictures and such...

I normally don't "hover" around the car, I am inside (sampling beer) watching the effects (of the car not the beer). Last week a beautiful girl eased her way up onto the fender and lounged across the front windshield, for a glamor pose...

She was so delicate and graceful I just had to break out laughing out loud!
I went out and talked to her later...sometimes if they are cute enough they can drive it a few blocks out on an old highway, a block away....

 

Nope. I have worked very hard for my toys. Nothing was given to me.

No guilt here. Just pure pleasure.

 

I feel a little guilty, yes. With all the road salt, it probably should stay in the garage, but I can't help myself.

 

You Ferrari owners should feel guilty. Very guilty of not driving your cars enough I don't have my own F-Car but seeing one usually makes my day and reminds me of how much harder I need to work. Enjoy your cars, I'd like to see more Ferraris on a daily basis.

 

and it's our duty to ease that friction when and where we find it. This is my first post--I have been lurking for years. I proudly own a 2002 456 and a rarer older bentley and--a 2008 chevy impala flexfuel. I founded a biomed company and its beginning to show fruit, due to hard work and a little luck. BUT THIS IS MY ADVISORY: I am on my way to visit my ailing dad who has been in the hospital, on and off, since Sept. Out of shock due to the financial crisis, and just plain expediency, and a little bit of guilt thrown in, I would drive the Impala to the hospital, then to work. Its a fine car and nothing is wrong with it. But as my dad progressively declines, I decided to fire up the others as a palliative. Guess what? It helps me bear with the pain(no, a ferrari erase or reverse what I am going through. No material object should could or would). But to me it takes my mind off the the grim stuff as a cruise down the 73 on my way to Hoag Hosptial. I have no guilt. I am humbled and grateful for having some ability to maintain these machines. I don't want to show off. Nor do I use it or dispay it as a yardstick of "successs" (whatever that is). My point is simple: we will not walk the face of this earth forever so enjoy the little fruits that we can and do have in our possession and don't feel remorse. I know my dad not only would endorse this POV but insist upon it. I thought it important to share my thoughts at 8.30 in the a.m with those who harbor similar concerns about these difficult times and the image that they may project.

 

"These days." Does that mean, "hard economic times?" I believe we have had those before and people still bought Duesenbergs, people still bought Ferrari's and there were always those getting laid-off. The point is that working hard for your money has never been looked down on, and neither should what you spend it on. With exceptions of course. I think it would be out of jealousy to spit on the car and maybe a "I should have tried harder in high-school" running through their heads as well...

If anything, seeing a Ferrari on the street should be evidence that tough times will not last forever and there are still hard workers out there who push for the 110%. Seeing a Ferrari for me has always been a sign of "you can" not "im an ass because I went for it, and you didn't."

Should a Ferrari driver be ashamed to drive what he enjoys out of the fruits of his labor??? Some things just shine brighter than other things... If you loved to kayak and you went for a week long trip through the mountains with a few friends, would a hiker spit on you? "You kayaking bastard! Can't you see were on hard times??!!"

Ridiculous....


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