Dissed by a Ferrari 550 Maranello

[Skerd]

Today while driving on the PA Turnpike I pulled up on a blue Ferrari 550. I slowed down to be side by side and gave him a thumbs up. He just looked at me like I was an alien from Mars. Oh well, atleast I know he paid 8 times what I paid for mine used.

[JK1]

Sounds about typical

[autocross7]

I know this is a general statement....
BUT!

Having friends with Ferrari's I have decided that there are 2 types of Ferrari drivers...

1)Elitist snobs that do not seem to know dick about the cars they paid $$$$ big time for...(other than the quotable stuff from a book or article)

2)Really nice people that love cars and love their cars best of all. These tend to drive 308's and 328's here. I have only met 1 550 driver that was not full of himself... even he said that he gets treated differently by 550 guys when drives his 308??? I even ran into one guy in a 550 that did NOT EVEN know what a Lotus Esprit was...HELLO??? I told him I'd put my money on the Lotus 79JPH against the F2000 F1 any day if wanted to talk "the race herritage"...

I suppose this is true for all types of car owners, but I'm proud to be counted with the Lotus owners! I have yet to meet one that was not really nice and loved cars!Especially THEIR Esprit.

Drive topless!!!
Cameron

[newburymess]

You forget the real reason they make Ferrari's-it is to keep a**holes from buying a Lotus.

Scruffy Steve

[adrianmugridge]

A few months ago I saw what I thought was a red Esprit coming towards me down a dual carriage way with a big central resevartion ( so it was a bit tricky to see 100% ). I flashed and waved and he flashed and waved back. When it went past it was a Ferrari ( the type that Magnum drives ). I dont flash other marque but alway flash/wave to all other Lotuses. 99% will do the same but sometimes you get the odd look as if they dont know why the hell you have just flashed them, as if you are some time of looney tune. I tend to shout "Suit your self" at them if they dont respond !

Adrian
Sport 350

[PatHeald]

I give a cheery wave to other Lotus drivers, but have to say that I get a few blank looks from Elise owners...

I also find that many TVR drivers will acknowledge you, unless they're on a bend, when they seem to be preoccupied with trying to keep it out of the hedges..

I even got a thumbs up from a Boxter driver not long ago. Not sure how to take that one....

Pat.

[britten_mark]

PatHeald said:

I give a cheery wave to other Lotus drivers, but have to say that I get a few blank looks from Elise owners....

That sounds right.

[NJS25]

Don't tar us all with the same brush

I always wave to any Lotus'sss (and VXs as well ).

Regards, Neil

[benfell100]

I saw a Caterham doing a bit of opposite lock a while back and gave a sort of 'nice one' wave with the thumb and little finger wobble type thing. He thought I was calling him a w4nker and gave me the V sign.
Can't please everyone...

[86turbo]

ferrari's in the area don't seem to acknowledge my waves while I'm in the Lotus, I did get a wave from a Maserati 3200 once. I'm just used to Corvette culture, where it's pretty much a rule to wave to every other Vette on the road! I still wave to the two local Ferraris though.
Dan

[tony9645]

It also depends on who's in there passenger seat, after all every man who drives an Esprit is good looking, charming and funny and every female passenger surely wants a piece of that sort of action...i have once shouted out of the window of my mpv, "I can buy a new car, pity you can't alter your looks" :-)

[jesprit]

I had a great drag with an Aston Martin DB7 GT last week. We gave each other a cheery wave as I had to back off due to incoming traffic. Great guy :-) A lovely sight too seeing a big GT squatted right down at the rear powering along beside me.

Come to think of it, it was very James Bond. Should've used my smoke screen :-) LOL.