Tuesday 4th December 2001
911GT2
Extra driver training becomes a useful tool when you've got 462bhp on tap in your road car!
Discussion
Well sure there are track days down here in France but to my knowledge people who are in a position to own cars as valuable as a 911 GT2 don't dare taking them out the way British guys do!
This has all to do with the French mentality: as soon as you don't behave like your neighbour you get progressively socially excluded.
The French are denied nazis, I am not afraid to say that, and that's because they refuse to accept the fact they let themselves being governed without ever complaining: they eat sh*t and they ask for more.
For example when I got my 944 I went to visit some family in the countryside and the first reaction of a friend was: "You a**hole!! How do you dare showing up down here with you rich man's car??". It hadn't occured to him I was not in a position to buy a new twingo (which would loose its value the way the 944 won't in the next few years).
Therefore I am so glad to see via Pistonheads there are some guys (who happen to live on the wrong side of the Channel) who, for God's sake, take the bull by the bal*s and don't feel ashamed to enjoy their lives: I mean here I know so many people who have boring existences and just don't have the guts to spend the money they earn to turn their lives into something a bit more exciting...
I cherish the day I'll be leaving this country of boneheads and move up in the country where Sports car enthusiasm still has something to do with National Pride.
Sorry for this long and boring post but it's such a relief to empty my bag.
Edited by thom on Wednesday 5th December 22:10
This has all to do with the French mentality: as soon as you don't behave like your neighbour you get progressively socially excluded.
The French are denied nazis, I am not afraid to say that, and that's because they refuse to accept the fact they let themselves being governed without ever complaining: they eat sh*t and they ask for more.
For example when I got my 944 I went to visit some family in the countryside and the first reaction of a friend was: "You a**hole!! How do you dare showing up down here with you rich man's car??". It hadn't occured to him I was not in a position to buy a new twingo (which would loose its value the way the 944 won't in the next few years).
Therefore I am so glad to see via Pistonheads there are some guys (who happen to live on the wrong side of the Channel) who, for God's sake, take the bull by the bal*s and don't feel ashamed to enjoy their lives: I mean here I know so many people who have boring existences and just don't have the guts to spend the money they earn to turn their lives into something a bit more exciting...
I cherish the day I'll be leaving this country of boneheads and move up in the country where Sports car enthusiasm still has something to do with National Pride.
Sorry for this long and boring post but it's such a relief to empty my bag.
Edited by thom on Wednesday 5th December 22:10
quote:
French arn't (esp. in the south)- no more than the UK anyway.
Of course it depends on the people you stay with when you go there...My initial complains dealt with the French mass.
Each time I went to the UK with my Dad and his car noone ever mocked us, unlike in France people laugh at you when they don't know the car you are in.
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