Why "F-car"?

I don't quite get it either. Now I do have an RX-7, 240Z & MX-5. In Europe, that says it all.

 

Actually if you type it Fcar it save three strokes

 

Same reason the mafia doesn't call itself the mafia. "This thing of ours" takes alot longer to say, but is so much more cryptic to those who aren't "in."

Every group, or industry, has their own slang. It's often not about efficiency of communication, but more of a bonding thing.

 

I think it's just because, somethimes it's easier and faster to write: F-car, L-car, P-car... then Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, and on top of that it's the way you won't get any flak from spelling nazis.

 

Spealing Furari isnt ez yo !

 

It's an elitist thing. Slang is just a way for one group of people to make themselves feel and appear exclusive. I prefer to use "Ferrari". It's more.......old school. Just like me.


Tom

 

In reality, most F cars are p cars!

 

Sometimes, while at the shop. it's "F" car, as in what the "F"

DM

 

I guess that writing "Ferrari" starts to be redundant...hence, F-car! BTW, In our household, we no longer say "Ferrari" when referring to my 308, but rather: "The Red Car."

 

Um, how many keystrokes are in your entire post?

I'll bet you're hell on wheels around the knitting bee!

DL

 

Personally hate this abbreviation. It says either you can't spell or can't be arsed to type.

 

Hey Bernardo. Whose legs are those in your avatar? I think i'm in lust.


Tom

 

Then change your profile name to FOUR FIFTY SIX MODIFICATA GRAND TURSIMO

 

LOL.

I think to mitigate sounding pompous or like a braggart when talking about one's own car, especially with the social impact the word "Ferrari" has. You can say Fcar and it's a little less charged with meaning rather than "my Ferrari this... My Ferrari that."

 

Now that's funny!!!

(is it spelled correctly?)

 

G.Y.A.I.D.A.S.F.Y.

DL

 

I.D.W.T.S.I.S.W.W.I.W.O.?

DM

 

Well personally i dont get that, and i thought it was Gran not Grand

 

DL

C.I.L.I.U.O.T.I.?

DM

 

Alright stop it already damnit

 

Just good old darth being cute. "Get Yourself An Italian Dictionary And See For Youself." G.Y.A.I.D.A.S.F.Y.

DM

 

Funny, my wife asked me the very same thing.

 

Im impressed but If you didn't want to spell it, why wouldn't you write otherwise?

DL

 

Gran, grand..Face, ass. What's the difference. you get the point.