I rememeber reading in Car and Driver where he took an F car across the country. and used a car cover to combat the stares and vandalism. I wonder how that would work out at say the local shopping center or on a side street.

I never let mine out of my site. Until the other day I parked it in the far corner of a shopping mall car park. There were 400 more spaces around it and not anoth car in sight... when I got back, a raced-up Citroen Saxo had parked so close to it I couldn't get in the driver side. 400 spaces and he parks next to me?

That's the problem, people want to get close... and don't think.

Bit like being in an empty cinema and someone comes and sits right in front of you? Happens to me all the time?

You have to assume that there are enough people out there with no respect, or in fact resentment for those that have done well - to warrant a threat.

Andy

P.S. I'm not sitting on my own in an empty cinema!!!

Just look at the cars most of use as a daily drivers new or old, I know my new cars with the exception of my Lamborghini all have small dings and such from public parking lots,it can't be avoided some people are just careless.

As Ben stated earlier most people tend to respect these cars more than they would, say a Ford Explorer and I have to agree that most do.


For me I never leave my Lambo unattended and thats why she is still flawless.

My wife and I took my Ferrari for a nice long drive to a high end furniture store back in April, we parked a mile away and with in a half hr had people parked smack dab on both sides of us with 50 open spots in front of the store.
Someone had also spit all over my passenger door and windshield ,so much for respect!

Vandelism may not be the norm ,but I learned my lesson in public lots it could have been a key down the door ,I won't be driving my Lambo to the mall anytime soon!

I still enjoy my car very much and don't feel i'm missing out on the driving experience avoiding the public!

Looks like there are a variety of opinions and experiences - thanks for all your responses. I still haven't seen anyone post any experience of having their Lamborghini intentionally vandalised though. Has this specific thing actually happened to anyone's Lambo?

As I said, it HAS happened to my PT Cruiser which makes me wonder whether it's any more or less likely to happen to my Countach.

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Never happened here, nor in my opinion likely to, too much respect about for this type of classic

Several of my mates share your view - if it was a BMW then people seem more likely to hate it (& its driver) than something as exotic as a Lambo. There's some kind of logic in there. People genuinely love cars like the Countach - The BBC's "Top Gear" programme recently said the Countach was still the No.1 Boy's bedroom poster pin-up. My gut feeling is that when people see a Countach they are more in awe than jealous and can't bring themselves to harm it. BMWs and Mercedes tend to elicit feelings of jealousy because they have that "money" image without the "wow" factor. The dealer at Sant Agata echoes this sentiment.

In case anyone's interested, the reason my PT Cruiser got scratched up was because I parked it outside the home of a "Chav" (trendy teenager in designer sports clothing for you non-UK folks) and he and his gang of mates were loitering in the area and gave me a lot of mouth for being a "Goth". I was visiting friends and when I came out later on there was this dirty great scratch all the way down it. Apparently there's this "grudge thing" between Goths and Chavs although it's invariably Chavs hurting Goths rather than the other way around. I have no doubt that in this case if I'd have been in the Lambo they would have scratched that. But the whole thing was kinda "personal" with them. Assholes!

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Jim Coleman
Countach Nutter

What's a "Goth"?

Well if you're a Chav then a Goth is pretty much anyone who dresses in Black.

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Jim Coleman
Countach Nutter

ROFLMAO

For all members outside of the U.K. who won't know what a chav is either...

www.chavscum.co.uk
www.chavtowns.co.uk

Andy (proud not to live in a chavtown, and only wears black because someone told me it was a slimming colour).

He probably wanted to whore some attention that your car is getting onto his haha