Opinion: can we dial down the internet rage over car design?
, 2023-01-01 23:00:14,
Surfing the world wide web, it appears the internet is angrier than ever
ManicCarGuy83 is angry. I am browsing a popular internet car forum, trying to verify a slice of obscure trivia about the Ferrari Daytona SP3, but have become waylaid by the musings of ManicCarGuy83. Who, I regret to inform you, is not a fan of the Daytona.
Over the course of several dozen vitriolic posts, ManicCarGuy83 has accused Ferrari designers of various offences including (and I lightly paraphrase in the name of politeness): betraying Italy; treating their customers like cretins, and defecating forcefully and repeatedly on the grave of Enzo himself. He’s a charmer, ManicCarGuy83.
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Such vitriol might, I guess, be justified if ManicCarGuy83 had, say, put down a deposit on a SP3 Daytona, sight unseen, then been disappointed by what’d actually rocked up on his driveway.
But, judging from the content of his posts, ManicCarGuy83 doesn’t appear to own a Daytona, or any other Ferrari. I wouldn’t be totally confident he’s old enough to own a driving licence.
The design of the SP3, so far as I can tell, has literally no more impact on ManicCarGuy83’s day-to-day life than does former England goalkeeper David Seaman’s choice of breakfast cereal (Weetabix). But here he is, driven to a mad, seething rage by its glass-to-bodywork ratio.
On the one hand, it’s a free country. As Voltaire nearly…
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