Driving a Ferrari in India is a somewhat obtuse experience. Normally, the average petrolhead would fantasize about thrashing a Ferrari on curvy corniches overlooking Monte Carlo in the morning, then spending the afternoon daftly cruising down shiny streets lined with stores with weird, two-syllable names like “Gucci” and “Prada.” However, I have been [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 12, 2008
Uncomfortably Comfortable: A Ferrari Across India, Day 1
I’m often skeptical of car manufacturers when they treat journalists real well. It seems they are buying good words by putting us press boneheads up in a really nice hotel that we don’t even come close to deserving. If Ferrari would have put me up in Trivandrum, India’s version of the Motel [...]
March 8, 2008
Magic India Discovery, and Other Ferrari Weirdnesses
When I decided to become a journalist who drove cars for a living, I did it for a number of reasons. First, I would not have to cover politics, a job I considered closely similar to being the manager of a Victoria’s Secret in downtown Tehran. I would also not have to journey [...]
