Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Unless of course........

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Ahhh Phil, I was just in a crap mood.  Don't read anything else into it.  
Perhaps it was the Infinity SUV TV ad I saw this morning where not one word was 
said about the actual vehicle - but A LOT was said about elegance and creating 
envy in your peers.

rick


--- On Sun, 11/30/08, philville dejazzd.com <philville [at] dejazzd.com> wrote:

> From: philville dejazzd.com <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
> Subject: [Ferrari] Unless of course........
> To: "rolindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 11:23 AM
> "Not saying I'm against it all, but all the safety
> standards from a
>    mid
>    '90s Volvo onwards would probably be good
> enough."
> 
>    You or some one important to you are the recipient of a
> severe rear
>    ender or other unimaginable and
>    unforseen act of automotive mayhem.
> 
>    Phil
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Fellippe Galletta
> <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com>
>    Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:04 pm
>    Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Weight of Modern Sports Cars
>    To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
>    Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>    > On 11/30/08, rolindsay [at] yahoo.com
> <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>    > > I've stayed out of this thread until now
> because I have strong
>    > feelings> about this topic, and here they are;
>    > >
>    > > + We are safety crazy and that stems from the
> refusal to take
>    > responsibility> for our own actions.  We want
> the security
>    > of public transportation without
>    > > actually having to use public transportation.
>    > >
>    > > + Any car that you either have to know
> ANYTHING about or that
>    > you can't
>    > > drive while talking on the phone, sipping
> latte and sending
>    > txt messages, is
>    > > called "dangerous".
>    > >
>    > > + Besides, if we were responsible for our own
> actions OR could
>    > actually pay
>    > > enough attention to the job at hand, we
> wouldn't get to sue
>    > everyone we
>    > > didn't like!
>    > >
>    > > This all goes back to a quote I heard more
> than a decade ago,
>    > "In a modern
>    > > car you can safely fly into a turn at 90mph,
> sipping a latte
>    > while talking
>    > > on the phone and digging around in the glove
> box for a pen.
>    > Sit down in a
>    > > 308GTB and it says to you, 'I'm going
> to kill you!  Now
>    > try to stop me.'"
>    > >  Keeping it from doing so is called
> "driving".
>    > Anything less is just
>    > > "riding."
>    > >
>    > > Two cents please. PayPal accepted.
>    > >
>    > > Rick
>    > > A couple of Ferraris
>    > > A couple of Mercedes
>    > > A BMW and a Land Rover
>    > >
>    > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>    >
>    > I agree, it really is about the driver(s) not so
> much the cars
>    > themselves.
>    > In an ideal world, all this safety progress would
> be there to
>    > save you
>    > from accidents beyond your control. However, most
> of such accidents
>    > are impossible to survive anyways (e.g. drunk
> driver through a red
>    > light, a tree falling on your car, etc).
>    >
>    > Not saying I'm against it all, but all the
> safety standards from
>    > a mid
>    > '90s Volvo onwards would probably be good
> enough.
>    >
>    > FG
>    >
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