Originally posted by: drag
And in the end you've spent so much money, and so much time, you might as well have bought the Ferrari.
And I don't care how slick you are, no one is ever going to think your Z28 is better or cooler than a Ferrari.
Hell, I could stick a jet engine in a porta-potty and beat all these cars. It's doesn't change the fact that I'm riding a sh!tter.
Or maybe could it be that a Ferrari is just a overpriced, overhyped, rich-boy toy designed for people who
realy use it about as much as soccer mom's take their excursion off roading.
Face it, their are plenty of places to get cares that are faster, better handling, and more confortable then a stock ferrari. They aren't the top of the line machines that they would like you to beleive.
Just check out the disasters that they created 80's. Cars that got out-performed by stock chevy sedans with the up-scale motors and about 400 dollars worth of hop-up parts. Sure they were bought over and over again by people who thought they were getting top of the line race cars for the street instead of the crampt, loud, slow, overweight things they were realy getting.
Anyways look at the prices. 47,000 dollars for a Z06 corvette. You get about 400 HP/ 400 ft/lbs of torque. Now the Ferrari 360 Modena Spyder F1. 176,000+ dollars 400 HP / 285 foot pounds of torque. Probably weighs more, too.
Now drop another 50,000 in it for the suspension/aerodinamic/brakes/engines upgrades from Lingenfelter, I get a car that will rip the living daylights out of the Ferrari on the street and on the race track and guess what? It's still less then 2/3 the price.
Sure if I was filthy rich I'd go down and buy Ferrari today, but not before putting in my order for the upgraded corvette to replace it.
What's worse, A guy driving a shitbox with a rocket and thinking it's a race car, or a guy who has a shitbox with a 200,000 dollar price tag who thinks its a race car?
