Owning A Ferrari For A Year Was A Disappointment

[DrLeftover]

8 Dec

They're coming for it next week. The shipping company, that is. They're picking up the Ferrari, taking the keys, putting it inside a trailer, and transporting it far away to a new owner, thus bringing to an end my childhood dream of owning a Ferrari. I should be downtrodden; dismayed; depressed. I should take time to gaze at it longingly during the last few days before its departure. I should take it on one final drive with tears welling up in my eyes. I should be browsing AutoTrader for a new one.

But I'm not.

I'm happy to see it go.

The simple truth is that owning a Ferrari for the last year just wasn't all it's cracked up to be. Regular readers of my Jalopnik columns won't be surprised to hear this, as I've complained about the car more than I've praised it. But I've decided to sum up my experience with one more column that addresses exactly why the childhood dream didn't live up to the adult reality.

http://jalopnik.com/owning-a-ferrari-for-a-year-was-a-disappointment-1668355120

 

[Raven]

Never really liked Ferrari, I do like the Dino, F40 and 1994 512

If I won the lottery a Ferrari wouldn't even be on my purchase list. Get me a TVR or Triumph Stag any day!

 

[DrLeftover]

The Supercars I've had opportunity to be around have not impressed me enough to even call the Credit Union to give them a good laugh.

I couldn't get in a co-worker's Porsche to go to lunch. Then there was the V-12 Mercedes that some boss used to park next to my van that used to have a truck from the dealer come and do something to about once a month in the parking lot so he could drive it home that day. And the new Corvette that lived down the block from us probably went for weeks without getting out of second gear since they drove it in town for the most part. And then there was the Miata, which isn't a supercar, but it might as well be since it was as fickle and expensive to maintain as one.

So... I'll keep my van and watch the paint finish peeling off the hood.

 

[Evil Eye]

I can now feel justified in not owning one. Yay.

The attention sounds like a massive pain.

 

[+paradox]

Nah Italian trash,even if I had the money for it I would never buy a Ferrari.

to each and their own, especially about cars/vehicles...

ferrari is apart of the fiat group, which they own most of the ferrari stock...

italian cars are not trash by a long shot...

italy produces some of the greatest cars in the world...

 

[+paradox]

all-in-all, american and italian cars blow the germans away, if you will...

german cars:
---audi - nice but not my thing...
---bmw - they suck...
---ford germany - they suck...
---mercedes-benz - nice but rather have a cadillac...
---opel - they suck...
---porche - one of my favorite cars but still rather have an american or italian car over a porche...
---volkswagon - they suck...



this is a good read:
German Reliability: The Greatest Myth Ever Sold to American Car Buyers
http://dougdemuro.kinja.com/german-reliability-the-greatest-myth-ever-sold-to-amer-1572026115

As a journalist, I feel that it's my duty to provide you, the reader, with carefully researched columns that employ unbiased facts to present multiple sides of today's most complex issues. So today I'm going to use a lot of hyperbole and anecdotal evidence to write about German cars.

I came up with the idea for today's column – that the only thing less reliable than a German car is a Happy Meal wristwatch – a few weeks ago while talking to a German friend. He told me, with absolutely no hint of irony in his voice (because Germans don't have the capacity for irony; just cleanliness), that modern German cars will "last forever." He was also stunned when I began violently coughing after several minutes of uncontrollable laughter.

 

[Nebulous]

@Despicable Me me too. Germans know what they're doing.

 

[+paradox]

you so cray...