Why drive a fast exotic if you are going to drive like a little old lady?

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i know you guys are tired of seeing that pic, but i'm not tired of posting it yet.

 

'vette drivers are the slowest group without a doubt....

 

Why is he driving slow, simple "poseur" like the vast majority of ferrari drivers.

I am not saying he should have been going over 140, but any fcar on a reasonable stretch of road can be going 70, and if you never drove ie redlined, your fcar through the gears you have yet to experience the joy of its inner mechanical workings.

I do agre the older cars have more of a viceral feel, most new cars lack fun untill close to 9/10ths or more. But even a 308 can and should move.

Reminds me of the guy who bought a testarossa when I was a kid, he said he always wanted a ferrari and now that he could put his golf clubs in one he could finaly get one. The front spoiler was broken cracked etc, apparently the fastes he ever went was redline in second every month to "clear the engine" shame.

Of course without these poseur cash cows sports car companies would not sell enough cars to develop new ones which we so enjoy. Once saw someone in their 80s going 25 in a m5. Asked him why he had that car, he said because it was the best BMW, but then he was 80 and rich so who am I to judge.

 

I like touring/cruising in my 308.

If I wanted speed, I would have bought something else.

 

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That's one reason it's not a good idea to drive fast around other cars.

 

Probably thought "OMG, who is this riff-raff in a ten-year-old Ferrari??"

lol JK

 

Stop sneazing on the steering wheel!

 

Don't some or all F430's come with run flats? Maybe he had a flat.

 

Hell no

Those guys have nothing to lose I see them driving there cars to there peak performance all the time.Thats a car that even I wouldn't be affraid to push to its limits.

 

Another thing to consider is not all Ferrari owners have the nerves of steel to take there cars to the limit or perhaps they are awfull drivers and thats why they would rather keep it simple.

Personally If I had any kind of exotic weather it would be a Lambo, Ferrari or Mclaren id beat the hell out of it like it was made to be. I see no point on making it a Garage queen or parking it to sell it in the near future. If im gonna pay that kind of money the car is gonna be raced, drivin very hard and well used if you know what I mean.

 

I don't think I drive like an Ole Lady, but I was getting gas this week when a police car pulls in next to me, the cop gets out, and announces loudly "Can I just go ahead and write you a ticket now!"

Anyone in a red Ferrari convertible has to be very careful. I have to put up with the mothers late to school with a load of kids in an SUV blowing my doors off at 7:55AM on my way to work - comes with the territory.

 

Lease holder's are terrified of the repair costs?

It's better to look good rather than feel good?

Bank balance greater than skill level?

Viagra isn't testosterone replacement therapy?

...A friend's 308 is 'a giggling red blur', it's better than Prozac.

 

A lot of reason why he's driving slow. Maybe he's on the cellphone? Looking for something or distracted. Who cares.

I drive "slow" for a few miles on the right lane until my 360 warm up. I would venture to say that the people who blow past me probably wonder why I was driving "slow" too.

 

Sadly accurate.

There have always been status-seeking poseur Ferrari owners, rather than drivers, but it's just so easy wiith the introduction of the shift-o-matic "clutchless" gearbox; actually changing one's gears oneself being oh so very hoi-polloi...

One can usually spot them from a distance by the SF shields and "F1" badges.

"A Ferrari owner is not necessarily a Ferrari driver". - Enzo Ferrari

 

It's 10 miles to work in the morning - and 10 miles back.

I know precisely where the oil temp comes off the peg either way, and I refrain from anything enthusiastic prior to that point in the drive - but past that point, no one will acuse me of "ole lady" driving.

 

It is his car, let him drive it any way he wishes.

 

Why is it that when someone is around a exotic, they expect the owner to red line it? This gets very tiring after a while. Crowds of wide eyed gawkers asking you to floor the gas at every light.

You don't drive like an idiot 100% of the time. Why should you expect the owner of an exotic to be?

 

I have some buddies that have nice fast exotics, the only time they drive slow is around the buzz, but other than that... They know how to drive them how they were ment to

 

Thats exacly why I have been considering a replicar.

There's just to much on the line when you push a ferrari or lambo to its limits if you to wreak the car something could break and there goes your wallet.

 

I have heard alot of 'touchy feely' be careful of the children and God knows, we shouldn't offend anyone here. The fact is that most modern Ferrari owners are more interested in the best valet spot, than the correct apex. That 430 guy was impeding the flow of traffic.

Where I live, my Fcar friends are slow and when I suggest a track day.......the look of fear comes over their faces.............and they head off to a restaurant...........with Ferrari safe parking. As for me, I'll be practicing my double clutching and matching revs, left foot braking, a little opposite lock, as well as a late apex or two.............My speed might make the PC'ers happy, but chances are it won't! Oh well.

 

It's their cars, and they can drive however they want, slow or fast. Maybe they bought the cars just because they like the exotic look and not the performance? It's like asking why some people who own economy cars drive too fast, like Accord owners, for example, don't "deserve" to drive fast.

This type of questions pop up in other car forums too, like BMW. Usually people who pose this questions are the one who don't own the fast and/or expensive exotic cars that they would like to have, but think they somehow deserve those cars because they think they are Michael Schumacher.

Different strokes for different folks.

And no I don't own a Ferrari.