Originally posted by Mini D
It was me?
Yes it was. We've already gone over your lack of understanding here, Mini.
When I say that the Ford lacks something special - a "Ferrari badge" I dont mean it literally, although this is, of course, true.
What I mean is that the badge, although it is only a piece of metal, is like the heart of the car - the soul - that special something that cant be duplicated elsewhere.
I dont envy your 'ability' to look beyond the passion of things, but it would explain your inability to understand anything beyond face value.
With a Ferrari badge comes an aweful lot - and 90% of it doesnt show up on a page of numbers.
Tell me once again how I brought name recognition up as an issue Saur?My reply to it was pretty much a joke too saur. You're the one that proceded to use the porsche vs ricer analogy. I guess the joke just needed a little less joke added to it.
Here Mini:
Originally posted by Mini D
"Just because it outperforms my car doesn't mean it's better." I've heard that before, but it's usually from the other arian car zealot group.
MiniD
Pulling information from magazines? No, I find magazines unreliable for anything other than numbers. I've been pricing 911's for about 10 years now. I could never bring myself to buy one because they are always what I refer to as a 5 yard car. 15 feet away and they look great. You get closer they look less great. You sit inside and you've made up your mind. They have a timeless style, but their interior doesn't hold up for crap. That's just based on the 50 odd ones I've looked at. And the impression I have from them. I'm sorry, I have an oppinion on a car. I'm not trying to say that a badge gives it "something intangeable". Really... who's treating this like a religion saur?
You must have looked at some real ****ty examples, Mini. Ive probably been in a similar number of cars - ranging from the first few years of production to an 02 Turbo, and sure Ive seen some poor condition cars, but they arent the type I would be considering purchasing anyway.
Since I have yet to hit the lottery, my ownership experience equated to the lte 80's cars.
Both were used almost daily and had their odometers ran up well past 100,000 miles.
If any car is abused, it will look like **** - but if it is loved and maintained by someone like me, as opposed to someone like you, in 15 years it will retain 95% of its beauty, condition, and soundness in all aspects.
You like porsches because you have experience with them. You like ferraris because you've driven them. But you haven't driven a GT40, yet you procede to describe what it doesn't have? All you've seen are numbers... and they pretty much sum up why someone would have to go to the "intangeable" card.
So now you are claiming that your own fault - not being able to understand the passion associated with owning a car and thinking of it as something slightly more than a people mover - is a product of my own failings?
Get real, Mini, youre really stretching now - as if drag heavy hood badges wasnt reaching enough.
This argument isnt going anywhere - youre like the hardcore Liberal everyone had in that college Mid East 101 class ranting about imperialism and the evils of the American government.
You talk an aweful lot, but you dont say anything - and after hearing the same song and dance time after time, it gets old.
