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Italy busts ring building fake Ferraris
Italy busts ring building fake Ferraris
Italian financial police have busted a ring of counterfeiters who built fake Ferraris and sold them for as little as $30,000 a car, officials said Thursday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23393826/from/ET/
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Oh No! What's next? Kneecapping Lamarossa?
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02-29-2008, 04:57 PM
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If Ferrari owners are posers than are fake Ferrari owners poser posers?
Just wondering . . . Ian
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02-29-2008, 05:30 PM
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Where they roll'n on Rota's?
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02-29-2008, 06:54 PM
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Seriously, who cares? It's not like they were being sold as real, and the buyers knew they were fake.
Yep, all of a sudden, the ghetto guy next door owns a Ferrari. Either he's a drug dealer, or it's fake. Just like the women who buy Gucci in Tijuana. You know it's fake.
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I'm pretty sure that these were the equivilent of kit-cars over in North America - think Fiero conversion
 These are not mirror copies by any stretch, but the Italians have recently been on a crackdown on any type of fake. I think some replicas of rare Maserati and Ferrari race cars were even crushed last year - Kind of like having the police crushing a Beck Spyder because it's a 'counterfit'. Regards, Andrew M
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02-29-2008, 08:20 PM
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Ha ha, they didn't even have an origional, they were working off photo's.
Imagine how unreliable it would be; built in southern Italy and the makers probably haven't even seen a real one close up. Ummm, a beaten up Fiat Uno (in southern italy most cars are beaten up fiat unos) with a fibreglass Ferrari body. |
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02-29-2008, 08:25 PM
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i would buy one! park it outside under a pine tree.. just for the looks i would get
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Wonder if they started with Fierro's like the fake one's here in the US?
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03-01-2008, 04:26 PM
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Now in 993 land ...
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03-01-2008, 07:34 PM
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Now in 993 land ...
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 The cops look fake too! G |
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03-01-2008, 07:37 PM
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