Is it my imagination, or this Fchat very quiet?

Volume does seem lower..... congrats on your new venture.

 

"CHAT HAS BEEN QUIET LATELY.....
BWS550"

DAN

I FELT THAT TOO...I STARTED A THREAD IN OFF TOPIC AS WELL TODAY

GOOD LUCK WITH THE NEW BIZ!!

BRUCE

 

Seems that way to me, too. Thank goodness UroTrash is here!

 

I think the recent BJ auction has made everyone realize that American Iron is where it's at. It had to happen sometime. Now Lee, Dale, ALan, Art,Bill, and I are no longer the only ones over the hill and it's shocked many into silence.

Jim (who remembers when racing was dangerous and sex was safe)

 

Just imagine the thought of an 0846 Chevy Vega! Or an AMC Gremlin. My dream cars.

 

Rob's next venture...

DetroitIronChat.com

 

It's wintertime.

On the old FerrariList, this was the time for gun threads.

80% of the people are snowed in or their cars are in the shop for repairs.

F1 hasn't started yet.

The Presidential election is over.


Basically, there's just not much left to talk about.....

 

Sounds like we need a second season of “Pimp and Pebbles” or “You’d B Pimp’d Beeyotch”.

 

It'll pick up when the F430 and SA come out here and with any F60 rumors likely to come soon.

 

It's not just FerrariChat.

Pistonheads (United Kingdom based car forum) appears a lot slower... and we don't get snowed in during the winter.

I dunno... maybe forums are a fad thats slowly going to tail off? Or in my case, i've seen what cars are out there and its time to start working more to buy more Ferraris

 

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Try this link:

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew

There's actually quite a bit of traffic, but a lot of it is in regional groups or other narrower-focus forums.

I understand the need to split the traffic, but I wonder sometimes if that doesn't make Ferrari Discussion (not model specific) a bit of a ghost town

 

I've been thinking it's that many people are active in their own regions now more than around the board - friendships form and people get used to one another.

That, and I keep talking to lurkers -- there are thousands of lurkers who read our words but don't feel comfortable throwing their hat in yet.

Maybe another Lurker Amnesty thread is necessary?

 

This was just a week and a half ago.

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46139&page=2&pp=20&highlight=lurker

 

Well if it is quiet that should tell you we have grown men here. unlike www.************* were people need to bully one other to make them selfs feel better. This site we talk about the cars we love rather the people we hate.

 

Maybe Tillman and ryalex are right, F-chatters spend more time in specific forums of interest, notably regional communities.

I check in daily and look at Ferrari Discussion, Technical, Classic, United Kingdom, occasionaly Lamborghini, and Politics and Religion.

Through the UK thread I have met a number of F-chatters and attended a couple of events organised through the UK section.

I have joined the Politics and Religion discussion once or twice, but inevitably this is primarily an American forum and yes, it did buzz during election time. I doubt that our forthcoming general election, probably in May, will generate the same excitement either in P & R, or in the UK section. I am amazed at the quick flare-up in the P & R between left and right, and equally amazed at how quickly participants settle down to calmer discussion.

As of this moment, I note that the European section has a thread beginning 'Where is everybody'. Perhaps winter's to blame after all.

 

too cold to work in the garage; Ferrari gifts at xmas have all been discussed; cavallino is over; the big January auctions are over; every conceivable mod to a 360 has been thoroughly discussed . . . .

that only leaves one place to go; the bikini thread . . .

 

Ferrari is in a slump... so f-chat is slow.

360 has been around for too long and the new 430 is just a 308/328 change.
Plus its already sold-out. (and being delayed in USA because of exchange rates)

The Enzo was sold-out before it hit the market and only a one-year production.

The 612 is not a widely loved new car. Didn't get much buzz or chat since most "sports car" people think its a Bentley.

550/575 replacement has been delayed?
575 America was good for a month of new chat...

Nothing new since 1999 ??? Chat starts to drop off.

Plus Maserati has kept Ferrari distracted for the last 5 years and is part of the problem... as ferrari trended away from exotic sports cars.

(Lambo sites slow also..... Waiting for Gallardo to go topless and bump up to 600 hp so the Lambo guys have something to talk about.)

Ferrari needs new cars (that aren't already sold-out)to keep the traffic high

 

It's quiet, but in my opinion, not too quiet.

Remember that it's the offseason. Most of us are "celebrating" winter and thus driving less. Fewer car shows, fewer events, no racing yet.

I think things will pick up in March when we "thaw out" and racing begins in earnest.

 

We are busy doing maintenance!!!!!

Fuse boxes, wheels, paint, exhausts and muffler screens......busy, busy, busy.
(At the fab shop: "What do you mean, you LOST it!???!!!")

Winter is a good time for this.

Thanks for that, Jim G.! Ouch! LOL!

I have an old Pontiac over here, poised for escalation! I use it to get parts.........You're right though, it's the last car to draw a "man on the street" cash offer. He wanted that striped thing in his barn with the other early Trans Ams and the Hurst Olds Cutlass Pace Cars...

Holiday travel, winter vacations, I think a lot of this accounts for it.........

 

How about organising a F-Chat bash something like the FFQ at a place where the horses can roam freely.

 

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44321