Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Who cares?

[Adam (flatcrank]

I typed the email with spacing and paragraphs -- but it did get to be  
longer than I wanted -- I guess something isn't formatting after it's  
sent.  What's quoted in your post isn't the same formating as my email,




On Sep 20, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> FWIW - I tune out when there is no white space every 4 lines or so.
> My eyes simply can NOT handle all those tightly spaced words.
> Which is a shame because they are probably well thought out and
> contain great ideas.
>
> Call it a age thing...old eyes with bad implants.  After cataract  
> surgery the new
> corneas allow much extra light requiring sun glasses but I've found  
> none
> which work with for monitors.    Consider the added lines like  
> taking a breath.
>
> I know..who cares?
> p
>
>
>
> At 07:52 PM 9/20/2008 -0700, you wrote:
> > This turns out to be a pretty long email, so if you're not interested
>
> > Almost all of my questions really pertain to an "informed" decision,
> > but one primary question is meant to help me go from newcomer, to
> > savvy old hand: "What have you seen in other cars or ordered for
> > yourself from Ferrari that you would recommend?"  I mean, aside from
> > shields or Scuderia stripes or perhaps a yellow tach or carbon trim
> > and sports seats, I'm looking for unique things that only the
> > experienced owners even know exist.  I'm tempted by special, limited
> > availability paint, but I'm also looking for savvy advice or ways to
> > get things to happen (like Scuderia seats?) that might not be offered
> > up to a new customer like myself unless I do my homework and know how
> > to ask the right questions.  I'm tempted to get some, let's say,
> > "froufrou" options (luggage or carbon trim ... this is my first
> > Ferrari ... I'm prepared to get a little indulgent!) and I imagine  
> > the
> > factory delivery won't be as affordable as Porsche makes it for
> > example, but perhaps there's also options now offered by Ferrari's
> > customization programs (no, I can't afford to redesign the whole car
> > in a wind tunnel) that I just don't know about and the dealer is
> > postponing my efforts to raise these questions or share any of this
> > information until they're ready to proceed with the order.  I don't
> > understand why they hold their cards so close to their chest, so to
> > speak, and it really puts me off the whole business of dealing with
> > the vagaries and nonsense, but so it goes and I'm prepared to curb my
> > "bull at a gate" impulses and try to be a "good customer" because  
> > this
> > is meant to be my first -- not my last -- Ferrari.