Originally Posted by mazex (Post 353427)

He he, the funny thing is that the Carrera GT actually draws a lot less attention on the street compared to borrowing his old red Ferrari 430... Everyone looks at the Ferrari (which is actually a rather cheap mass produced "standard" car in comparison). Old women smile, kids point etc. The GT on the other hand draws a completely different attention from the real connaiseurs, you never see someone running desperate with an iPhone to get the acceleration sound in the 430 but you sure get that in the GT. "Normal" people don't realize what a unique car it is.

Originally Posted by mazex (Post 353427)

He he, the funny thing is that the Carrera GT actually draws a lot less attention on the street compared to borrowing his old red Ferrari 430... Everyone looks at the Ferrari (which is actually a rather cheap mass produced "standard" car in comparison). Old women smile, kids point etc. The GT on the other hand draws a completely different attention from the real connaiseurs, you never see someone running desperate with an iPhone to get the acceleration sound in the 430 but you sure get that in the GT. "Normal" people don't realize what a unique car it is. I was cruising in it a summer day with the carbon fibre roof plates off and two girls on motor cycles stopped behind be at a red light. I heard one of them say to the other: "No, that can't be a real Porsche - it must be some darn home built car". I gave them a burst of the V10 with straight pipes to silence that talk :)

He also had a black Ferrari 458 recently and that was almost the same way, the old red 430 got more attention as it's "THE standard Ferrari" that everyone recognize. He still has the 430 and I borrowed it for a nephews graduation party to drive him with some class (he loved the ways the girls in his class looked when I pulled up and delivered him to the party). I told the parents that I unfortunately could not borrow the Carrera GT as it was on service, or his black Aston Martin DBS as he had lent that to some other friend (being extremely generous with letting people borrow his cars). The parents both looked weird at me and wondered why that should have been better than a red Ferrari... Sigh... ;)

Regarding the 918 it will not arrive until a year or so. He had to pay up a sign fee of $150.000 though and got a good looking T-shirt with a 918 logo, a cap and a book about it ;) He also got an offer to buy a special edition 911 Turbo (918 edition with the serial number of the 918 on the panel). He bought that just to sell it on and unfortunately I did not get the time to try it before that, he was rather surprised about how nice it was actually...