gregv
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- Location
- Milan, Italy
Hah! Just found this thread. The very first pic is my car, the day I bought it, back in 2013.
Taken in Maranello next to the Ferrari factory museum about to undergo its 200km of charging up the Apennine mountains engine break-in
Funny side story, the reason I have a 2 door: I am a performance junkie. So I was sitting down at the salesman's desk in Modena ordering the car (btw I had NEVER driven any kind of MK7 when I ordered - bought purely based on reviews and only because of the active diff meant FWD was no longer the realm of satan) and we're going through the options. Sunroof? Uhm, It has an aluminium roof and I'm gonna put heavy glass and motors on it? hell no. Then the guy asks me 2 or 4 doors (4 doors was an optional extra but EVERYONE takes it). I ask, in Italian, what the "peso" (weight) is. He thinks, since I'm canadian, I mean "prezzo" (price). "€850" he says. Me: "il peso?" him, again, "€850". My Italian girlfriend leans in, "no, no... He is actually, REALLY, asking you the WEIGHT of the doors. *PERPLEXED LOOK ON FACE OF SALESMAN*. No idea. Some googling on my phone, 26kg or so. "2 doors please!"
Taken in Maranello next to the Ferrari factory museum about to undergo its 200km of charging up the Apennine mountains engine break-in
Funny side story, the reason I have a 2 door: I am a performance junkie. So I was sitting down at the salesman's desk in Modena ordering the car (btw I had NEVER driven any kind of MK7 when I ordered - bought purely based on reviews and only because of the active diff meant FWD was no longer the realm of satan) and we're going through the options. Sunroof? Uhm, It has an aluminium roof and I'm gonna put heavy glass and motors on it? hell no. Then the guy asks me 2 or 4 doors (4 doors was an optional extra but EVERYONE takes it). I ask, in Italian, what the "peso" (weight) is. He thinks, since I'm canadian, I mean "prezzo" (price). "€850" he says. Me: "il peso?" him, again, "€850". My Italian girlfriend leans in, "no, no... He is actually, REALLY, asking you the WEIGHT of the doors. *PERPLEXED LOOK ON FACE OF SALESMAN*. No idea. Some googling on my phone, 26kg or so. "2 doors please!"
