Bad day in the 599

Bad day in the 599

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SL550M

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589 posts

109 months

Tuesday 16th August 2016
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GusB said:
On Sunday I went for a long drive to nowhere around Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire etc and the engine, acceleration, steering and noise was just fantastic. Yes I know if I bought a 675LT I could go faster and if I bought a Atom I would have a more "absorbing" experience, however you know what, I wouldn't have wanted to drive anything else that day, it is a wonderful car with the most amazing V12. We are all lucky to drive one.

GusB
Well said Gus. Absolutely spot-on!

BigLion

1,497 posts

98 months

Tuesday 16th August 2016
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SL550M said:
baypond said:
Today I was driving through a village in my McLaren and pulled up to let an oncoming car pass a long line of cars that had reduced the road to single lane.
As he approached, he wound the window down, put his hand out the window and ....

gave me the middle finger.

I actually laughed. Hows that for courtesy.
Wow, that is seriously well done retaining your cool there. Laughter is absolutely the best riposte to such rudeness, although it's not easy to do in the heat of the moment. Bravo!
BTW, love your stable of cars. Superb.
How crap must someone's life be for them to do that - we should feel pity not anger!!!!

DanS

1,137 posts

283 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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So far my FF has been a very happy place, from the expected kids pointing, staring and saying something like wow, to people, young and old stopping to chat and ask about it, and a nice German bloke in a C63 Black gracefully admitting defeat and pulling over to let me pass with his window down to hear...

I'm amazed by peoples reactions, smiling, talking about it, taking pictures. reactions that have been a big added benefit of ownership.

dang2407

496 posts

107 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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geopetrolhead said:
Brilliant Clarkson as always. The last sentence explains it all really....

FatboyCustomsuk

7 posts

90 months

Sunday 18th September 2016
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There really are some complete ***holes around nowadays... stay positive and all the best :-)

JKay

573 posts

200 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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For quite some time at work, nobody knew I owned a nice car, let alone a Ferrari (Aston and 911 before that)

The topic of supercar drivers came up a few times at work and I'd hear the same wker thing/bad comments mentioned....

Then one day a non work friend posted a picture of me on Facebook of me standing next to my car without me knowing (I haven't posted a single picture of my Ferrari on social media even tho I am pretty active on it) and these same work people eventually realised I was one of those supercar owner "wkers" after asking me about the car I was photographed next to.

They're all still very nice to me (well to my face at least lol), and I realise Im the only supercar owner many of these people know.

What I am trying to say is most of these people probably don't know (or have never even met) a supercar owner in there lives, and the perception is hard to shift.

Something that can probably never be changed, but at the end of the day I take great satisfaction knowing I own and drive something Ive wanted for years (and many of these haters probably want but can't have), and try not to let others take from that experience, hard as it may be some days.

CitySlicker

300 posts

92 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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They will recognise the fact you don't mention it let alone gloat, however because you own a Ferrari + live in UK = wker by default

The worst is when friends introduce you with: this is X, he drives a Ferrari .... big nono

On another topic, my trickle charger broke and battery is now flat as a pancake. Jump start or battery booster pack?


LordOfTheManor

1,267 posts

110 months

Friday 31st March 2017
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It's a funny world we live in today - the harder we work the luckier we become!

Why do the people who do nothing in life say "I'm going to collect my money!"..

Someone tell them it's not their money but it's the somebody who has busted a gut to work....

It's their money that their given, no one else's ...


A guy goes 'look at him who does he think he is' when a flash car passes him and his wife out

shopping.

The lady tells her husband, if you gave up the beer in your hand and the fag in your mouth

...you could have one also driving

Edited by LordOfTheManor on Friday 31st March 20:04

ILoveMondeo

9,614 posts

225 months

Saturday 8th April 2017
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Hooray! Add one more to the tally today, got called a tosser! But only once in over 100 miles and had far more thumbs up and cheery waves.

Even had the Thumbs up from the police! Probably because I was keeping it sensible. smile


Claret Badger

214 posts

167 months

Tuesday 11th April 2017
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CitySlicker said:
The worst is when friends introduce you with: this is X, he drives a Ferrari .... big nono
Reminds me of when I drove to a wedding in France. Got the suspension height adjusted in my 550 so I could get on the ferry. The groom only went and mentioned it in his speech. Seventy heads with their sweeping generalisations turned to stare!


845ste

577 posts

126 months

Wednesday 12th April 2017
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this also happens in Italy:furious
the world there is no more respect ... especially for the economic differences earned honestly.
we must be very careful.

I will when I go out with my Murcy not lose sight for a moment.!

an event I had to take off "weight" a child who was climbing on the "miniskirt" of Murcy ...
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it is also the fault of the parents and good education that the world has vanished, as well as a good dose of envy!

456mgt

2,504 posts

265 months

Wednesday 12th April 2017
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Guys, you can't let yourself get too upset at this. Drive around enough and it's a statistical certainty you'll come across this behaviour. Two bad experiences in the same day is unfortunate, but it can and does happen. It's just human nature, and while it may be more visible in one place than another, it happens everywhere. I also bet that if you logged each positive reaction as well as each negative, the positives would far outnumber the negatives. It's just that we remember the outliers more clearly than the rest, because that's human nature too.

I've been tooling around in flash cars for almost 20 years now, and this stuff used to bother me as well. I've had just about every rude gesture, spit and dings in my cars. But the answer is to drive around more, not less. They'll get bored or run out of words soon enough. In fact, if you can remember to do it, just smile like an idiot and wave furiously- more or less guaranteed to cause an epi! It's wisdom passed down by those great philosophers, the Penguins of Madagascar https://youtu.be/yOvmRSYeSJY

11110111

612 posts

199 months

Thursday 13th April 2017
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bad day in a 599 is better than most days for others without

wtdoom

3,742 posts

207 months

Tuesday 23rd May 2017
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LordOfTheManor said:
It's a funny world we live in today - the harder we work the luckier we become!

Why do the people who do nothing in life say "I'm going to collect my money!"..

Someone tell them it's not their money but it's the somebody who has busted a gut to work....

It's their money that their given, no one else's ...


A guy goes 'look at him who does he think he is' when a flash car passes him and his wife out

shopping.

The lady tells her husband, if you gave up the beer in your hand and the fag in your mouth

...you could have one also driving

Edited by LordOfTheManor on Friday 31st March 20:04
He should reply "where's yours then love?"

Jonny TVR

4,533 posts

280 months

Monday 19th June 2017
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I have had my 599 for just over a week. Had some great responses from likeminded people in Le Mans and positive responses elsewhere. However there was an unbelievable response from a guy in a white van on the dual carriangeway who was in front of me. He threw a pair of open scissors out of his window in my direction, I saw them bounce several times in the open position down the lane and just managed to swerve out of their direction before they hit the car. I didnt manage to get his number. I couldnt quite believe it. I think this must have been car related as wasnt doing anything else to him that could of caused such a reaction.

dang2407

496 posts

107 months

Tuesday 20th June 2017
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Other than you were "considerably better orf" than he was... To some that is a big pill to swallow