Young people driving ferraris/other exotics

I let my teen son drive my Bugatti.

I could care less what other people judge him for.

If you would ever meet the kid, you would know he is in no way spoiled.

Matt

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Enzo said that he builds cars for young men that only old men can afford. But that is definitely not the case nowadays in Silicon Valley,where there are lots of young men who drive all the exotics.

 

I had a 246 Dino GT at age 23.

Then again, it was 1980 when you could get one for 15 grand.

 

I don’t have an issue with young people driving exotics/specialty/performance cars. I have an issue with people driving like idiots. Young or old. I started driving my father’s Ferraris when I was 17. He had a simple rule, no street racing. I taught my son to drive stick on my corvette when he was 18. It would have been when he was 17, but he has a November birthday. He now routinely drives the vette in the summer. If my insurance policy would let him (age restriction), I’d let him drive my Ferrari as well.

 

I bought my Ferrari when I was 35, I had already cut my teeth in the canyons when I was 22 in a highly modified RX7, so being a natural, it did not take me long to master the 328, and I have been doing so for 22 years. When I do see a young person driving an exotic, Im thinking young being someone in their 20s, and most likely driving their dads car, and that the parent has good sense when it comes to their kids. What I think is a more , well lets say, important, are the amount of idiots driving exotics, that have absolutely no business doing so, and thus we see the never ending pics and videos of them wrapping their cars around telephone poles, trees, and what have you.

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i learned how to drive in a 356
my dad let me take the 930 on dates when i was a teenager.
i took my first racing course when i was 24.
i bought my first sports car when i was 25 - a porsche 928s4 - with my own money.
i bought my first ferrari when i was 35, and still looked like i was about 16, with my own money
i bought 4 more ferraris. with my own money.
i bought my F40 when i was 41, with my own money.

i worked hard, and my first assumption is that the kid who is driving worked hard. if he tells me otherwise, then so be it - at least he has a passion for cars like me.

live and let live.
you only go around this merry-go-round once.

 

Why all the emphasis on “with my own money”?

Matt

 

I bought my first Ferrari when I was 26, I'm now 35. I wish I had a trust fund and inherited millions, mostly because IDGAF what people thing or how I obtained X. Mine have all been old ones and the reactions were generally 'cool car', not 'who's the young DB in the 488?'

You're in Boston, you've seen the college kids running around in R8's, Huracan's, 458's, but most of those kids are from overseas and most of those purchases were funded by parents.

 

because the op asked if we immediately assumed a young person with a nice car, had not earned it himself....and then i told about driving my dad's nice cars and i wanted to differentiate that at a certain point, i bought them myself.
you can omit that phrase if it bothers you.....

 

I bought my first Ferrari (1995 F355) when I was 25 (in 2006). The Ferrari salesman told me I was the youngest (selfmade) person at that time who bought a Ferrari there. I am sure it’s much more common nowadays, 18 yo Youtubers are buying new 300k Lambo’s now. The first few years I got quite a few negative/jealous reactions. Daddy’s money, daddy’s car, waste of money etc. I couldn’t care less, i felt like the king of the world in my own Ferrari. The best “waste of money” ever.

 

I bought mine when I was 36, so I guess I'm good...

 

I bought my first Ducati when I was 52, is that to old ?? I bought my first motorcycle when I was 18 , is that to young ? ( with my own dinero !!! )

I won my first race , when I was 30 , with my own sponsorship . I regularly drag my knees on the street at 57 , I might be getting to old for that , what do you think ? lol I bought my first and only BMW K Bike to date, at 53 , I think thats a perfect age.

I hope I can buy a Lambo Gallardo when Im 60 , some might think thats way to old , I know my mom would.


Thank you

 

It's the 21st century and technology has made it possible for regular people to cheaply create content that gets more viewers (or listeners) than traditional shows/albums that cost millions of dollars to make. Just last week I saw a YouTube video that was 36 seconds long and consisted entirely of a young teenager saying that he has returned to YouTube, and it had 35 million views after just a few days. I know some musicians that pay their mortgages in LA with earnings from Spotify streams of their music.

Meanwhile, the stock market and cryptocurrency have skyrocketed. Some young people made hundreds of thousands of dollars shorting $GME via Reddit. A producer I worked with was paid 10 BTC for a synthesizer in 2013, worth about $700 at the time. It's worth $476k right now, just about enough to get an 812 Superfast. Suffice to say that young people have many more avenues to wealth than those of us who are older mllennials, GenX, or boomers.

So, when I see a 24-year-old show up to a local event in his brand-new 812 GTS with carbon fiber everything, I'm not particularly surprised. I just assume they earned their money through one of the many avenues that can pay off with good hustle, just like the retired pharma patent attorney and the GenXer that owns a local exotic car dealer.

And I definitely don't scoff at anyone for achieving their dreams, including when it comes from their parents achieving theirs.

 

Im yet another who bought their first Ferrari before 35. I think i was 33. And had a Viper even before that.

When i was a teenager and full of self loathing seeing a young person driving something cool would piss me off. As I matured I came to appreciate it.

 

Bought my first Ferrari, a 308GT4 basket case, when I was 35. Had 9 more since.
I don't care one way or another if younger people can afford to own these cars. It's how they act that matters.
Some are poseurs. Some are enthusiasts. That hasn't changed since I took interest in 1987.

 

I'm all for young folks buying a Ferrari. Bought mine when I was 25... ( own money ) and cared for that car for 15 years. .... the best thing was the people I met along the way. I don't regret a single moment.

 

I think this is the truest of the replies. Worst situation is the attitude. Seen a lot of it in the demographic you are referring to and really turns me off. Children need to learn their manners first.

 

We (wife and I) are well under 35 and haven't heard anything negative come our way yet. It's not even a big deal to get one, just monthly payments forever. It seems nobody even looks into the possibility of themselves owning one, they just write themselves off.

 

First reaction... lucky bugger getting into one so young!

But haven’t met many really young; at 53 I tend to half the average age at our local Ferrari Owners Club meets!!!

Only seriously younger chap I’ve met was on a track day and owns a rather stunning car collection; seriously nice guy and really knows how to drive!!

The more young people that get into them the better in my opinion; provided they aren’t complete **** and YouTube heros!

 

Bought my first exotic at age 53.....honestly, I'm aware that there are people younger than myself who are smarter, wealthier, thinner (everybody not on a 600 lb life show), better looking (again pretty much everyone)......I don't really have an opinion when I see accomplished younger folks driving exotics, I just look at the cars.

 

I bought a new Corvette at 23 (1984) and a house at 25. I worked my butt off and saved like a maniac after college to be able to afford those things, but it didn’t keep people from giving me all kinds of grief until they found out I started my own business. As hard as I tried to just let it roll off me it did become pretty annoying after a while. I can’t even imagine the grief if it were a Ferrari instead of a Corvette.

 

Went to LA this weekend to see our daughter who is in college. Stood on a street corner on Rodeo drive and could not believe the steady stream of Bentleys Rollers Maclarens and Ferraris. The SUV du jour there now is a Lambo Urus. Only one driver of a Rolls was a cigar chomping 65 yr old. My wife and I were like what pandemic? What recession?

 

It’s not the car but the person. I don’t judge a person good or bad until I see their actions. So when I see a young person driving a car, I simply don’t know. As long as they are not driving like an idiot, I appreciate the car.

 

Bought a 355 in my late 20’s. Always got the thumbs up when I took it out. Maybe because you never see a 355 coupe on the road... even in Southern Cali.

Bought a Scud around 33. Didn’t get as much thumbs up on the road, but I can see the shock on people’s faces when they see it.


I wouldn’t change a thing if I had to do it over again. You are only youthful for a short period in your life. All the money in the world can’t buy that back.