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This happens all of the time.
I firmly believe in carrying on the sports car gene, which is learned. If I have time and people are truly curious without being jerks, I take the time to talk about the vehicle and, as a surprising shocker of the day, I encourage them to get in the vehicle and explore it. I especially do this if kids are involved. This is the way we capture the hearts and minds and create new enthusiasts. I only ask that they remove any pens or other sharp items from their pockets and have clean hands...thereafter, have at it. Compared to this level of attention, my M6 is non-existent...unless I'm at full throttle!! |
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08-03-2015, 10:08 PM | #49 |
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I think I'll pass. Defiantly or otherwise.
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My car continues to get lots of pictures even while it is moving and we are now approaching 1 year of release date. I have not seen anyone take a picture of a Tesla as of yet.
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He already loves cars/car culture but I think that day may have forever warped his priorities in life...mission accomplished! |
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This is my daughter's life, as well. She has accompanied our loosely affiliated car club in the passenger seat in the following vehicles: Audi R8 V10, McLaren MP4-12C LeMans Edition, Ferrari 430, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Ferrari 360, Maserati Grantourismo, and an E63 M6. She has also sat in a McLaren F1, Pagani Huyera, McLaren P1, Dodge Viper ACR, and Bentley Continental GT. Harsh life for a 17 y/o. In high school, she was the resident Car Guy! Priorities Warped...Mission Accomplished!! |
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Well done.....well done.... |
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Come show some of these stuck up L.A people, that money doesn't make you entitled to special privallages. |
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What's a "privallage"? I defiantly want to know!
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Forgot you're in that area. That post wasn't directed towards you. Anyhow just the overall vibe and peoples attitudes that have nice cars... It's not all of them, just a good majority of them. Some people think becuase they drive this and have this amount of money, they don't need road manners. It's just something I noticed quite a bit, when I was down there in June.
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Guilty as charged. I'm old enough to remember when people had sufficient pride in their writing to do it correctly. Spelling, grammar, sentence structure.
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Then again many of us are not from an English speaking country and I bet his English is better than your Finnish or Swedish for example. ☺. The location doesn't always reveal the nationality.
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What foreigner, for example, would write "I would of done something different"? And yet someone on this board, who posts quite a bit, recently made that clearly American error (although that was not the exact sentence in which he did it). That error occurs a lot because many Americans write phonetically, don't have a clue about grammar and don't care. And I'm sure any foreigner's English is better than my French (my "second language," from 3 years of high school and two years of college).
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