Merged: Interesting! F430 Sales May Be Banned in U.S.?

I hope my car is built before the Sept deadline.

 

great article....love the talk about the F430 replacement.....

 

Thanks for the link, very interesting article

 

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thats F*cking ghey! I hate when the government does this ****. Its not a mass produced Toyota that people are "forced" to buy, nobody makes you buy a Ferrari. What they should do is make sure any buyer is FULLY aware its not safe enough, but thats it. Its a limited production car (so to speak), so if you let em on the road not much bad will happen, and if it does the owner is aware of the danger. If you want a safer car, then its your choice to support other manufactors, Lambo, Porshe, ect. It's up to the consumer.

Second, cant Ferrari just change the air bag, seat belts, or make it able to deactivate??

And as last resort, just make them exempt, but not legal to carry a child in them, with a harsh penalty for doing so...VERY harsh.

 

interesting,

that's what killed the porsche carrera GT. once again, our government protecting ourselves from ourselves...

the US is ferrari's biggest market. i'm sure they'll come up with something.

cheers.

joe

 

When, exactly, has the US government ever demonstrated an attitude of "well, hey, it's your body, take the risks if you want to?"

 

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=108934

 

thats just a BS answer by Porshe, it had to do with sales

 

if I wanna drive a death trap why cant I???

plus you forget the days before the Jap imports with the rule of the big 3, hell just getting seatbelts was a hell of a battle

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=135487392&posted=1#post135487392

 

They will let you drive a Prius...not much of a bigger death trap on the road.

 

awww, the hiporacy of liberals lol

they love the tree hugger prius, no matter how much it sucks

 

Is this the same issue that was giving Porsche fits re:CGT?

Gary

 

Hahahahaaaa

I think it's great. It's about time FNA receive the crap treatment they dish out to owners. Now maybe they will understand our point of veiw. Screw-em, make the cars safe or don't sell-em.

 

I think it's good the government is making them fix the problem.

 

it's spelled "porsche" by the way...

regards,

joseph

 

It is my understanding that the car was designed and on sale before this regulation was put in place and that Ferrari has tried to find an airbag supplier who would make a bag that would work but not one of them wants to do it at any price; the order would just be too small. Sounds like catch 22. Hopefully the Feds will relent.

 

I cant argue with Ferrari fianlly getting their comeupence
Maybe another decade like the 80's will set em straight

 

I did spell it right in my profile at least

 

Anyone venture a guess as to what F will do? It would seem like some fix would be imminent. I'd be curious as to what their allocation strategy will be.

 

And I was thinking the government is the problem.

 

This topic was already posted with the heading: INTERESTING.

 

Haha, is it the liberals or the consevratives that impose their beliefs and values on others. I think a liberal would say if you want to kill yourself, so be it but the government should at least ensure that someone pays for the funeral. The moral right would conclude that they know best and no life should be placed in jeopardy. Seriously, why would anyone even want to infuse politics into this topic.

I agree about the BS answer Porsche used to discontinue production. Dealers were getting stuck with CGTs left and right before this pronouncement by Porsche. In fact, I was offered a brand new CGT for $ 498,000 and told by a dealer that many dealers no longer even wanted to accept their allocation of the remaining CGTs as of June or July of this past year. The car is awesome, but there are only so many people willing to pay that much money for a Porsche.