There are plenty of cars on the GTP ‘Cool Wall’ rated cool or seriously cool that would make you look equally idiotic as the Rocket if you drove them through a city/town – from the seriously cool section I’ll pick the Atom and the Dauer 962.
The Atom is a climbing frame with an engine. The Dauer a Le Mans car made road legal.
Why would you ever take a Rocket in to a town anyway? It’s got zero room for shopping!
It’s a car to take out early on a Sunday morning for a blast down your favourite A/B road, and would be tucked up, back in its garage before most of the general public had finished reading their Sunday paper and drinking their morning coffee.
Just because it’s styled somewhat like a 50’s GP car, the Rocket is NOT a track day special as per Caterfield/Atom/Mono/Radical.
The Gallardo is a car for people who want to be seen driving a Lamborghini because it's a Lamborghini.
Of course, if the driver is one who takes his car to regular trackdays or backroad blasts, then they may get a pass. But the majority, I suspect, don't. And it affects the coolness of the car for me - not least because manufacturers pander towards these sort of people*. I can't recall the last time I saw a Ferrari, or Lamborghini or similar doing anything other than making a noise in a town center, or being parked outside some expensive shops.
In fairness to someone buying something like this Rocket, I suspect I'm highly unlikely to see one hard-parked as it's not that sort of car. You would, as I said in my first post and several others have added since, look a bit of a tit rolling around town in it.
That’s the issue with Ferrari and Lamborghini for me...
Never mind regular Gallardo’s and 430/458’s, you don't even see 430 Scuds or the harder Gallardo’s on track days either.
Owners are far too concerned about keeping the mileage down to protect the residuals than they are about driving them properly. You’re far more likely to see them driven through central London in as low a gear as possible to make as much ‘LOOK AT ME’ noise as possible as you ever are to see them used in anger.
It’s one of the reasons that draws me to Porsche as a manufacturer. Go to any track day and you’ll see loads of GT3’s and generally a good number of cooking 911’s too. Look through the classifieds, and you rarely see sub 10k mile GT3’s whereas virtually every Ferrari has hardly ever been driven.
Owners talk about the ‘theatre’ or ‘event’ of driving them, and then hardly ever drive them unless it's to take them where loads of people will see them.
