unotaz

I will start...

1. Guy comes up to me at a gas station (pointing to my Ferrari 458 Speciale) and asked me if this is the latest Mustang? I told him no and he refuse to believe me. He goes on telling me that a buddy of his just bought the latest Mustang and he takes out his cell phone to show me pictures of his buddy's Mustang (which turns out to be true and is a real Mustang). I asked him where he sees the resemblance between the two and he continues to point out the similarities between his buddy's real Mustang and my "Mustang". This conversation lasted for 10 minutes. I was in a good mood.

2. Guy comes up to me at a local Cars and Coffee (pointing to my GT2RS) and asked me if this is the 911? I said yes and he asks "Does this car have the pancake engine?" I later discovered pancake engine = boxer engine, lol.

<3mph

I heard of a nurse gushing to a famous cardiac surgeon that she saw him driving to the hospital that morning in a gorgeous red Mustang.

GT3

carcommander

I have had several people ask me what my 488 is. Then they usually ask what it cost. I used to defer. Now I just tell them. Their reactions are humorous.

3GO1GO

Always makes my day when driving with the wife and we pass any bright PTS Porsche and she comments "what beautiful car, why would anyone ruin it by painting a color like that". Someday I'm going to explain it's a $15,000 premium, will probably extend delivery time and is one of the best features of being part of the Porsche experience.

victorc31

A valet asked me if the rear wing on my gt3 comes with the car. I didn’t let him park it after that.

bbs993tt

In the carrera gt I get asked what kind of car it is all the time. The kicker was once when a guy came up to me and asked what kind of ferrari it was.......

Catorce

Me and the wife took the two McLarens plus a friend's McLaren (3 total) to a friend's kid's school to pick them up as a surprise. The event was described by teaching staff as a "procession of Lamborghinis" . No one had the heart to correct them......

Norsk

Exchange overheard between Porsche owner and female bystander at a state vehicle inspection station:

‘How much did that car cost?”
”$250,000”
”250!!! - you can buy a house for that!”
”I already have a house”

CAlexio

First guy was trolling you hard.

dewilmoth

Interestingly, when I owned a 360 people were constantly asking if it was a Mustang.

Gasman85

There was a new NSX parked in front of an Apple store here at a shopping area in Las Vegas. The guy was leaning on his front fender just waiting for people passing by to ask him about the car. Lucky for me the spot right in front of him opened up and I parked my GT3 there. I didn’t even get one foot out of the car when I hear him say “makes a lot of noise for old technology”

I assumed he was talking about how 911s haven’t changed much looks wise but I played along and asked him what kind of car he had. He said “it’s the Future” um ok, the brand is called Future? He said “no it’s hybrid technology from the future that F1 cars copied so they could be as fast”

Ok bro. If that’s the case, I’ll live in the past.

CardiffDweller

The enthusiast market place has largely spoken on the NSX. Honda is having a very hard time selling them.

Nick

The Ferrari Mustang confusion was prominent when I owned Ferrari's. One guy asked whether it looked like a custom built Mustang and he hasn't seen many of them. I told him it was and built in Italy. He said, "I didn't know Ford had a factory in Italy".

The other question I often was asked was how much do you make to afford a Ferrari. My response, "not a lot but I'm a good saver" and smile.

Frankly it's one reason why I left Ferrari. Too much attention. I had tire pressure caps with the Ferrari emblem on all four and they were stolen within a week.

That said, my Lizard Green RS gets as much attention. But at least they know its a Porsche. However, I wish they would stop pronouncing the name Porsch instead of the correct pronunciation Porscha.

Pmorritt

Coming back from a trip and stopped overnight at a motel. Loading up the frunk with luggage, a dad and his 2 kids come out of their room. The kids walk over to look at my car and are bewildered. The dad comes over and says to his kids, “ look that car runs on luggage”. The dad smiled at me so i knew he was just playing with his kids. Still a chuckle for me.