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To: algore
A Ford GT owner in Boca Raton, Florida crashed his recently purchased supercar into a tree Friday evening because he was "unfamiliar with how to drive stick shift," police say.

LOL! Reminds me of a scene I witnessed at my Harley dealership one time. A gentleman had bought himself a nice new Sportster and had three near misses with the curbs and other traffic leaving the parking lot. The salesman said it's not his business whether or not the customer can ride / drive.

6 posted on 05/02/2022 3:46:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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I got a similar story from a used motorcycle dealer who wanted to be sure I could ride before handing me the key to a used R1; he said he’d had a couple of wanna-be test pilots bounce the bike over curbs trying to exit the dealer’s lot.

As to the driver in the OP, he obviously has far more money than sense. Most of those expensive supercars are expensive because of what’s under the hood rather than what’s painted on the outside, and the GT40 rehash from the mid-2000s is one of those. The guy should have bought himself a Bentley Continental or similar and left the real cars to people who know what they’re doing.

I’ve always lusted after the Viper GTS. If I ever manage to put the funds together for one, I’m putting one of those “Student Driver: Please Be Patient” stickers on the back to mess with people (for the non-car-savvy, the Viper is the *last* car an inexperienced driver should ever try to drive, no ABS, no traction control, no other driver aid, and manual transmission only).


15 posted on 05/02/2022 3:58:00 PM PDT by Little Pig
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