RE: Fake Ferrari Gang Caught
Discussion
Why do people turn MR2s into fak Ferraris?
There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
Fury1630 said:
Why do people turn MR2s into fak Ferraris?
There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
have heard this before. and as you say it might just about be worth it. i guess if you left it white or gunmetal or black it could be an okay compromise. what i am not clear on is how much of the bodykit you need to stick on for it to become a 'replica'. i mean could you just do the wings or something? i am serious about this - it's a real loophole, i have thought many times about how you could insure one of these cars very affordably this way. there's another common kit people fit to merdes - usually cabriolets - it's not supposed to look like anything so it's not a rep - but unbelievably it too counts as making it a 'kit car'. if you sva'd a dimma kitted peugeot (god forbid) could that count as a kit car???There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
Fury1630 said:
Why do people turn MR2s into fak Ferraris?
There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
Didn't this guy and his replica feature on Top Gear (or Fifth Gear, or Used Car Roadshow)?...There was a story on a Kit Car site about a guy with a grey import MR2 turbo, insurance cost a bomb, more so when he had the engine modded, we're talking multiple thousand / year. Then he fitted a Ferarri body kit & nervously call his insurer with the latest mods, only to be told the premium had gone DOWN to £400 ish as it was now classed as a kit car, not a grey import.
Reason enough for me - personally I wouldn't put the badges on though.
I'd probably would avoid red also.
Edited by joz8968 on Saturday 1st March 14:02
chedixon said:
can you believe this numpty wants £35000 for one :-0
http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/12968/Ferrar...
I actually like that. remove the badges and it would be a really nice car.http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/12968/Ferrar...
Also very practical as it has 4 seats and a low maintenance engine.
I wouldnt pay much over normal 406 coupe money though..
Bada Bing! said:
I can only hope they do the same in other countries. I would have loved to have bought a 355, but wouldn't touch them because of all the wank stains driving about in fake ones.
The fake ones would never put me off buying a real 355. Service bills maybe, but not fakes 
.There is a fake 355 just near me and i do laugh every time i see it,
but it probably cost £15000 to convert but for that price you could have a real Ferrari a mondal or 308gt4 are around for that price,
ok it will cost a lot more to run but its real.
one person on the north east spotted forum spied one in Newcastle just as a bunch of chavs shouted it's a f**king MR2 To the driver.
but it probably cost £15000 to convert but for that price you could have a real Ferrari a mondal or 308gt4 are around for that price,
ok it will cost a lot more to run but its real.
one person on the north east spotted forum spied one in Newcastle just as a bunch of chavs shouted it's a f**king MR2 To the driver.
photo_ed said:
briSk said:
out of interest did they ever do a 348 replica on the mr2 or did they just go straight to Faux355?
Not sure, more than likely though, I found this recently on my travels....http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FERRARI-288-GTO-REPLICA-BUIL...
288 GTO replica from a Lancia Monte Carlo! - why, why, why?
Why do we only get the S H I T euro-laws forced upon us? Bring that law over here!!!
FOR SALE: Ferrari F355 t-bar, looks F U C K
all like a Ferrari and has a 4 cylinder engine,
really naff. £18,000.
You're nicked sonny!
bring it on!
Bungle
www.turbobungle.com
FOR SALE: Ferrari F355 t-bar, looks F U C K
all like a Ferrari and has a 4 cylinder engine,
really naff. £18,000.
You're nicked sonny!
bring it on!
Bungle
www.turbobungle.com
turbobungle said:
Why do we only get the S H I T euro-laws forced upon us? Bring that law over here!!!
FOR SALE: Ferrari F355 t-bar, looks F U C K
all like a Ferrari and has a 4 cylinder engine,
really naff. £18,000.
You're nicked sonny!
bring it on!
Bungle
www.turbobungle.com
FOR SALE: Ferrari F355 t-bar, looks F U C K
all like a Ferrari and has a 4 cylinder engine,
really naff. £18,000.
You're nicked sonny!
bring it on!
Bungle
www.turbobungle.com
At the same time they could make owning a supra with a load of plastic tat glued on it a criminal offence, as it doesn't meet with taste approval schemes. Or Caterhams as they aren't the originals. Or Ranger Rovers because they are lets face it large pointless vehicles that are virtually never used for their intended purpose.
Edited by Davi on Monday 3rd March 10:04
Stu R said:
briSk said:
out of interest did they ever do a 348 replica on the mr2 or did they just go straight to Faux355?
Someone out there did a 348 rep, there used to be two floating around up here, one looked fairly convincing, from a distance, the other wouldn't pass for a ferrari unless you removed your eyes.vetteheadracer said:
Similar feelings towards the fake Dodge Vipers you see occassionally.....having said that the Ferrari 365 Daytona Spider used in Miami Vice was actually a rebodied Corvette 
the McBurnie. Ferrari have always cracked down hard on replica builders unless they use genuine Ferrari parts (there are some companies out there who make '50s race-replicas out of scrapped Ferrari 400s and Fiat Dinos that have authorisation), but otherwise Ferrari get peeved. Funnily enough, Porsche and Jaguar don't mind (possibly due to availability of 'genuine' parts to make them out of), and the Lamborghini family have even endorsed some replicas of the older models from Parallel Designs.
McBurnie got away with it because they altered the Daytona design sufficiently to constitute an 'original' (no Daytona Spider had a plexiglass front end, it has square headlights and if you look closely at the interior it's all Corvette with wood veneer (neither the Corvette nor the Daytona had wood veneer).
Blib said:
briSk said:
edited to say - by many accounts the hawk car is actually superior isn't it??!
I've not had the pleasure of driving an original - yet. When I do you will read my comparison on here, first! 
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