Supercar drivers-do you recognise yourself?

[sardis]

I came across this article yesterday:

https://www.granturismoevents.com/story-here-are-t...

To summarise:

Ferrari drivers - you want to belong to an exclusive club

Lamborghini drivers - we just want the attention

McLaren drivers- you want the top trump numbers

Porsche (GT) drivers - it’s all about track bragging rights

All a bit tongue in cheek and just for gentle Sunday reading. Do you agree, are you prepared to admit it’s true, or are you already throwing your (Ferrari) cap on the ground in annoyance.

Don’t forget I’ve only posted it I didn’t write it

[s2000db]

Very amusing and mostly true imo....

This made me laugh most though...

“The McLaren customer is not really interested in how exciting the car is to drive.”

[R8Reece]

An amusing read, especially the summary. Which one are you:

1. "Be a member of the most exclusive club in the world"
2. "You are a rockstar"
3. "Own the most advanced car on the planet"
4 "You are a racing driver, let's go to the track!"

[TP321]

Seems a quite accurate description

[andrew]

frank sinatra ( whom i don't quote very often tbh ) :

[flame suit] "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody."[/flame suit]

[AndrewD]

andrew said:

frank sinatra ( whom i don't quote very often tbh ) :

[flame suit] "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody."[/flame suit]

You are the exception to the rule

[andrew]

AndrewD said:

andrew said:

frank sinatra ( whom i don't quote very often tbh ) :

[flame suit] "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody."[/flame suit]

You are the exception to the rule

naturally, he had nothing much to say re serial porsche fanboys

[jtremlett]

andrew said:

naturally, he had nothing much to say re serial porsche fanboys

I don't think I've ever met a Lamborghini owner who had nothing much to say about anything!!

[andrew]

jtremlett said:

andrew said:

naturally, he had nothing much to say re serial porsche fanboys

I don't think I've ever met a Lamborghini owner who had nothing much to say about anything!!

it's always a pleasure jt

[Lee Jones Jnr]

I’ve never met anyone covered in horrendous Ferrari merch that had a Ferrari (F1 weekends excluded)

[andrew]

Lee Jones Jnr said:

I’ve never met anyone covered in horrendous Ferrari merch that had a Ferrari (F1 weekends excluded)

allow me to introduce you to jt !

[jtremlett]

andrew said:

Lee Jones Jnr said:

I’ve never met anyone covered in horrendous Ferrari merch that had a Ferrari (F1 weekends excluded)

allow me to introduce you to jt !

He said "horrendous Ferrari merch". I've only got the good stuff.

[Roof down]

When I had my 360, I enjoyed owning a piece of genuine Ferrari history, the 360 are raw, beautiful imho and belong to a long gone era.
I did have a Ferrari cap for driving, that was it! The Ferrari merchandise is cheap tack again imho.
I visited Ferrari world in Abu Dhabi and have to say I found it only cheapened the brand further.
I along with others do not find myself hankering after any of their latest cars, I would have another old model though, but the same with Porsche really, the air cooled and 987,997 are turning out to be so classic.
I don’t know what bracket this puts me in .
Mike

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Roof down said:

I did have a Ferrari cap for driving, that was it!
I don’t know what bracket this puts me in .
Mike

I know....

[SL550M]

Back in the day when Asprey was one of Ferrari's F1 sponsors there was some lovely and, dare I say it, rather tasteful merchandise. Maybe that's just me, though. Anyway, my wife bought me the Asprey/Ferrari silver money clip as a birthday present in the late 90s. Not that there's much use for money clips in these cashless times!

Drifting off topic now, but Ferrari also launched a couple of Asprey edition 355 GTBs at that time - silver with Asprey purple leather interior (looked better than it sounds!) caught my eye. I wonder where they are now.

[WCZ]

it's basically true

[jtremlett]

SL550M said:

...Drifting off topic now, but Ferrari also launched a couple of Asprey edition 355 GTBs at that time - silver with Asprey purple leather interior (looked better than it sounds!) caught my eye. I wonder where they are now.

A quick check suggests there was one F355 Berlinetta which has been SORNed for a long time now and was in Sussex last I heard of it. There was also one F355 Spider which went to New Zealand.

[SagMan]

I think that view point is fair.

But, I would say I have tracked a couple of GT3's and a 458 Italia. I preferred the 458, it was more fun, limits more accessible. I do recognise that the 458 is not designed but heavy track us, but for light track use it would be driver appealing

[AndrewD]

andrew said:

jtremlett said:

andrew said:

naturally, he had nothing much to say re serial porsche fanboys

I don't think I've ever met a Lamborghini owner who had nothing much to say about anything!!

it's always a pleasure jt

QED

[yellowtr]

jtremlett said:

don't think I've ever met a Lamborghini owner who had nothing much to say about anything!!

Oi! You know that's not true