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...cares? Last year a local techie in blue jeans and a sports shirt walked into Ferrari of Washington, a former furniture dealership located discreetly in a glass-and-brick office park in Sterling, Va. The buyer knew exactly where he wanted his new car to go: in his living room. Sales manager Ralph Cestero knew just what to do. He collected the $225,000 price on the 550 Maranello and arranged delivery. "We took the car over," Cestero relates, "and saw that he had removed a wall of his house and built a large ramp up to the living room...
...photographer, Walter Chin, who parked his Ferrari inside the building, told me to take my glasses off. This gave me a blank, squinty, confused look. "Perfect! Beautiful! Stay there!" he yelled, snapping away. I started to take my shirt off until he motioned me to stop. I watched a lot of Cinemax growing...
Jerry Bruckheimer loves guys who love cars. He produces movies for them, four-on-the-floor vehicles like Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise in a stock car, making two hours of left turns) and The Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without...
Villa profited handsomely from the business. For himself, he collected cigarette speedboats and vintage autos and racing cars, from a 1957 Cadillac to a 1990 Ferrari. For his wife, he collected jewelry--a $22,000 Rolex watch, a three-carat $44,000 wedding ring and $9,000 diamond earrings...
...just rated the best and worst cars for fuel efficiency. Click on Advice, then Best and Worst, then Fuel Economy Results. The Honda Insight, a gas-electric hybrid, beats them all with 61 m.p.g. in the city. Bringing up the rear (and really, really fast) is the $213,500 Ferrari 550 Maranello, which sucks gas like spaghetti, at 8 m.p.g. in town...