What's Wrong With This Picture: In Your Dreams Edition
Published: May 12th, 2009
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@Lokkii: This would not be the first-time Enzo got all uppety and created competition. Remember, his bad manners visavis Ford resulted in the birth of the GT40, a purpose-built card intended to whip some Ferrari-ass at LeMans... Oddly, HFII did not learn his lesson, as he did a similar stupid thing by bouncing Iacocca, who went on to save the walking-dead Chrysler, which spawned the Caravan/Voyager and directly siphoned-off billions in potential profits from Ford (due to Chrysler keeping customers that would have migrated to Ford after a Chrysler bankruptcy, as well as the loss of Ford customers to Chrysler after they started building the minivans and desireable cars...)
It should have been shot in Sant'Agata...
Ferraris are known for their obscene maintenance costs. Although many can afford those costs they refuse to buy a car that will cost them that much after purchase. I know a wealthy guy that would not touch Ferrari for those reasons, but owned an NSX until a few years ago. Also, I would think that the R8 would be more reliable and usable as a daily driver than a Ferrari. Now only if BMW would come out with a "real" sports car!
the thing about Sant' Agata made me LOL i am reminded of a person who owned a Ferrari... once and is now back to Porsches. The running costs of a Porsche pale in comparison to a Ferrari and that's even with the fact that you have to drop the rear end off a hoist and/or engine out to do any serious work. The thing is Italians are not that parochial. They are accepting of German, English, Italian and even American power and exotica if it warrants it. I am reminded that they have a very strong following for the Nissan Skyline GT-R even though to me that always seemed like sending the proverbial coal to Newcastle.