| Re: Doug DeMuro | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Erik Nielsen (judge4re gmail.com)
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| Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) | |
| I went back and read the article again and I think he has the following main complaints about Ferraris: 1. He didn’t like the “attention” that a red Ferrari gets, especially from “non car people”. 2. He bought the sports car model that Ferrari makes and complains that it isn’t a gran turismo. 3. He lives in a big city and had to garage it somewhere else. 4. He realizes that selling a Ferrari is a pain in the ass and everyone is willing to pay a premium for pristine and expects a discount for cars in other conditions. 5. After just a year of ownership, he recommends a Porsche. Okay, so let’s tackle this argument and see if we can draw any real conclusions. 1. He bought a red late model Ferrari, if he didn’t want attention, they do pain them in other colors, wonder if he’s familiar with blue. 2. He bought the most sporty boy racer model and he expects it to be as useable as a Mondial/California/612/FF? That’s why Ferrari makes other cars in their model range, but he probably thinks you’d be labelled soft or a pussy if you bought another model, because everyone on the internet is brilliant in understanding the marketing demographics. 3. I just put this one down into being a poser that bought the wrong car, I don’t believe all of the hype any more but I still added on to the house so that I had ready access to the cars. 4. Another poser that didn’t understand the difference between retail and wholesale at the high end of the market, maybe everyone has been listening to Clyde in trying to buy very illiquid assets in a tough market. 5. This I just chalk up to him being an asshole. End of the day, we get complaints from someone that is likely top 10%, trying to do the top 3% lifestyle on the cheap and realizes that the top 1% don’t care and he didn’t get any “specials” out of the deal. This isn’t rocket science and it doesn’t even make good copy. Just another bitter wannabe douchebag trying to make a nickel off of trashing Ferrari. Yawn. I’ve gotten over the hype and yes the cars can be a real pain in the ass, but when I came home tonight to see a freshly painted 308 sitting in the garage with all of the lights and front bumpers installed today, I still said “that’s cool”. I don’t care what other people think or have to say about it, it’s still cool and my 3 year old will likely learn to drive using it. Maybe the old curmudgeons here have rubbed off on me. Maybe that’s why I’ve stayed. No desires to own a tractor here, but I have seriously looked at the following odd ball shit over the years: T-55, BMP-1, BMP-2, Daimler Ferret, CVR Scorpion, MiG-15, MiG-17 and some other crazy items in Europe late at night, drinking too much of the local firewater. I’m like Rick (L) and also live in a HOA community that likely benchmarked the NSDAP for their best practices, still think it would be fun to park a tank in the driveway and see if they really would ask me to move it. Oh well. Cheers, Erik
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- Re: Doug DeMuro, (continued)
- Re: Doug DeMuro Rick Moseley, December 15 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro Charles Perry, December 15 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro Rick Moseley, December 15 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro LS, December 16 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro Erik Nielsen, December 16 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro Doug & Terri, December 17 2014
- Re: Doug DeMuro Clyde Romero, December 17 2014
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