Flemke - Is this your McLaren? (Vol 5)
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SydneyBridge said:
Flemke
May I ask what Ferrari's you have owned
is there any current or older Ferrari that you would consider owning?
A 360 and a couple of 550s. Then the company starting playing dirty in racing (or at least that was when I started to notice), and I walked away.May I ask what Ferrari's you have owned
is there any current or older Ferrari that you would consider owning?
"Consider owning" I take to mean "on balance one likes it, but not enough to buy one".
Amongst the road cars, there are good things to be said about 250 SWB, 275 GTB, 365 GTB, 355, 550/575, 599, 612 and FF.
Also, I once thought seriously about getting an F50, which is derived from an inspired concept, but the back end of that car is just monstrous.
king with your tyre pressures!! 
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
Spoiler "up" because?
I always wonder why aesthetics suggest a sleek profile, spoilers become retractable, and yet are left "up" intentional.
Just saying
Reason the car was in London was to do a favour for someone who takes photos of OTT cars. There ended up being a bunch of photographers present.I always wonder why aesthetics suggest a sleek profile, spoilers become retractable, and yet are left "up" intentional.
Just saying
Whilst they were snapping, I was asked to put the car in "Track" mode. I never drive around with it extended, which looks silly and of course is unnecessary on the road.
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
A ridiculous thing to say I know, but no thank you.
I really feel for 'you' in so far as the complete examination and following of the car and invasion of privacy.
The 'One' I know has says he has looked to punt it on because of this 'chasing' by people and camera's everywhere.
An iPad nearly went through his windscreen the other day he told me as the loons in the car in front were leant out taking photos and dropped it, bouncing off of the road........
Monty Python said:
flemke said:
I don't think of the P1 as a permanent part of my life, but I may keep it for the foreseeable future.
Given the way prices are going you may as well keep it as an investment if nothing else.The other day I happened upon a thread on PH relating to 599 GTOs. Roughly 16-18 month ago I thought about getting one, although instead I got a new SLS Black, which is a very similar car (but of course much better built, although lacking a V12) for the same money, roughly £250k. At that time, there were advertised in Europe roughly a dozen GTOs for that sort of money, £250-300k.
Well on this PH thread people were talking about asking, or advertised, prices for 599 GTOs being IRO £600-700k, with one car's asking price having recently been raised to something like £775k.
I'm sorry, but the value of almost nothing in this world has increased by 100% since the beginning of last year. I'm not saying that there won't be someone, somewhere who is wealthy enough and desperate enough to pay such prices, but there are not enough such people to keep the mania going. A correction will come, affecting all cars but especially cars that are not rare. A build run of 400 does not IMO make a car "rare", or at least not rare enough. Build runs of 400-2000, which would cover almost all of the coveted Ferraris, certainly do not make those cars rare. The reason for this is that, with several hundred of something about, there will always be someone who is willing to sell. With build runs of say 150 or fewer, there may be times when there is not a single car for sale, or maybe a single car for sale but more than one person who is keen to buy it.
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
michael243 said:
A ridiculous thing to say I know, but no thank you.
I really feel for 'you' in so far as the complete examination and following of the car and invasion of privacy.
The 'One' I know has says he has looked to punt it on because of this 'chasing' by people and camera's everywhere.
An iPad nearly went through his windscreen the other day he told me as the loons in the car in front were leant out taking photos and dropped it, bouncing off of the road........
Although I don't enjoy the attention, and normally when driving an OTT car would prefer to be personally invisible, I think it is churlish of someone to buy one of these cars, take it out in public, and then grumble when other people, who are not in the lucky position to have such a car, become enthusiastic and want to photograph or video it. It's usually "kids", or at least younger people, who are doing this: who would begrudge them their fun?
I do not want pictures of my person publicised, but that is a separate matter. If people want to take pictures of any car on the public roads, it should not be the owner's place to complain.
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