True, a Z may not be a lambrogini, but they are way better than most of the cheap @ss riced out **** I see now a days... And Z's still turn quite a few heads despite the length of time they've been in the market. I wuv mine!

 

Don't get me wrong, I love my Z, and yes, it is a head turner. It's just that some members here speak of the Z as if it were God's gift to man.

 

I like to park close to annyone that thinks they are special enough to park crooked or far away all alone. A car is a car, if something happens to it well that is why you pay for insurance.

 

I wuv mine too ---And I park in a normal spot with no probs

This thread as many, kinda got off the original point which was------If u do park all by urself, someone just HAS to park next to u ---- Personally I think its funny, that, for whatever reason, that happens

 

Im sooo printing those out and leaving them next time I get boned.

 

I already made some copies for my friends, lol.
Well, I usually try to get the corner parking spaces, and i stay as close to the wall as possible. But even like that somebody parks as close to me as possible, especially at Wall-Mart (WallyWorld)lol.

 

A small sportscar elicits a different "parking response" than a pickup truck. I drove a full-size Dodge Ram for the past several years, and very few people would park close to me. I think they were afraid that my truck would ding them. I've noticed people park closer to my Z than they did my truck.

 

it's not?

 

I got dinged by a Lexus.


Cars don't ding doors, stupid people who aren't paying attention ding doors.

 

Well it is . . . . .

 

It drives me nuts when people do that. But David is right, people see it and are subconsciously drawn to it. (thats a handful of bs psych classes talking)

 

I too watch where I park. Although not an exotic, it's my car and the less dings the better.

 

My dad had these before i could drive...they didn't say the **** like you park part but i have left quite a few of these on peoples windows.

 

I never park next to a cheaper car or an SUV or within 100 feet of another vehicle at retailers famous for their questionable patrons. I have an 03 and have never had a ding, scratch, mark, or other mar on my paint in any form or fashion. Yes it is my daily driver.

As I tell my friends, when you are in a parking lot, as a matter of survival you must presume that every other car is driven by a mouth-breathing, snot-drooling moron holding a "forty" in one hand and arguing on the cell phone with his meth dealer while smacking his "*****" in the front seat with the other, during which some kid in a dirty chocolate covered shirt and feces-loaded pants sits in the back seat yelling like a banshi.

I find it best to cut other drivers plenty of extra room for error.

 

you're an a@@ hole if you really do this (actucally, you probably are for just insinuating that you would do this)...as much as people on here get upset about this happening to their cars, I can't imagine someone on this board would actually do this to another's car. While we all enjoy the car, door dings and scratches happen. Believe it or not, every other driver isn't out to intentionally damage your car (if you haven't noticed lately, a lot of driver's are oblivious to everything going on around them). Have a good day.

sean

 

I had a lady (at church) hit my car twice...while i was sitting in it with the windows down. The first time she said, oh i'm so sorry. Then she hit it again, i wanted to kick her door in, but i was in the Vette and the doors don't ding...they might get a little scratch or scuff but they don't dent(plastic)....so i just took a deep breath and let out a little wooooooosaaaaaaaaah and everything was better.

As for the people who get ready to "pay someone back" b/c they might have dinged their car, i have really wanted to sometimes (people parking their lx470 in the compact only spot at Nordstrom with less than a foot to spare between their TRUCK and my car) i just tell myself that they will get what is coming to them...K to the ARMA. <---helps me sleep better at night when i don't personally make someone pay for their mistake.

 

ok i understand the thought process cuz i do it too, but if i see a car parked far out, i park with a space in between us. it lets people know not to touch either of our cars, and it lets the other driver know i respect their car.

 

So what kind of van do you drive!?



Nah I'm just kidding but you can understand our frustration sometimes.

 

hehe...my 'van' is an '05 ppw...

I really don't get worried (or frustrated) about where I park, it happens, like someone else said earlier, I have more rock chips than door dings...

As a driver of any nice car in a big city (or even a small one for that matter) I have bigger worries than a door ding (like getting spun out, and into a retaining wall, in rush hour, by a hit-and-run driver, in my last car).

 

that's where you're wrong. if most of us on this forum could afford an "exotic breed" then we would have one. therefore the Z is OUR exotic breed and we will baby the **** out of it. hence us being soo **** about others parking soo close.