Driving convertible Ferrari in Italy poll

Audrey made it work.

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Almost every woman will take your wife's position. Almost every man will wonder if they are crazy. I'd guess 75% of married guys probably will take the route to avoid the trouble with the wife because its just not worth hearing the non-stop complaining and nagging.

You could take the Spider and keep the top up most times and have an agreement that at some point- maybe after dinner? You put the top down.

But, respectfully, the F12 was made for Italy. You can really stretch its legs there. Thats the car to take in my opinion.

 

FCHAT isn’t ready for that.

 

It's Italy... coupe or convertible, whichever...its a Ferrari. It's going to be fun.

 

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Apparently they are David.

 

Tight hair works too...

 

Too bad you can't compromise on a sunroof Ferrari. Open top, no messy hair. But alas, I'm in the elite to have one.

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It would be good to know your final decision..and get some images from the trip. Italy is the home of style and no more stylish way to do it than in a Ferrari, either way.

I would probably take the Spider and try and persuade my wife to go Grace Kelly/Hermes style, but that's a moot point. Depends also what roads you plan to drive.

Be careful of the police, who no longer automatically applaud an enthusiastically driven Ferrari as it speeds past..

 

and a sunburn

 

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Guilty as charged.

 

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T HI S!

 

We have a Spider in the UK, allbeit an Alfa which I love. One time we went to Umbria and hired a open roof Fiat 500 with a view to some open top motoring.
95% of the time (except for evenings) the A/C was better. Too flippin hot
Might just be me being British and used to a cooler (wetter) climate.

 

I'd be more worried about sorting out the transportation of my luggage.

Plus, Italians are about effortless,not contrived style. There's a reason us Europeans can spot a yank at 100yds

 

I’ll bet you dinner you couldn’t pick us (“as yanks”) out of a group foxtrotting on the dance floor of the QM2 ballroom. Remember, effortless style does not include snobbishness; something many forget in their attempt to put others down.

 

I forgot to mention lack of sense of humour too..chill out fella!

Gosh, it was just a joke

 

Ha.

 

We’ll be in a 488 Spider through Northern Italy the week of 8/14 (after MotoGP in Austria)...can’t wait!

 

When talking about convertible cars, women and scarfs, I can't help of thinking about the fate of poor Isadora Duncan. For those who don't know the story;

On September 14, 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan is strangled in Nice, France, when the enormous silk scarf she is wearing gets tangled in the rear hubcaps of her open car. (“Affectations,” said Gertrude Stein when she heard the news of Duncan's death, “can be dangerous.”)

I am driving a coupe myself. Whether the previous story had some impact on me when choosing my car, remains a mystery

 

No, I think you're very right. The first thing you need in Italy in summer is a very well sorted A/C. It's the same, albeit to a lesser degree, in the South of France: the locals there use their spiders in spring and autumn, only coupés with good A/C in summer.

Rgds