That's hard to hear that people were actually considering damaging your car for no reason just because it's a nice car. Do you think having a bright coloured car makes you an even bigger target for these jealous types cause it's seen as more flashy/showing off?
I personally have not encountered any negative behaviour like that in either of my Huracans. But both have been black (not sure if it makes a difference, but maybe it blends in more and less are noticing it or seeing it as deliberately attention grabbing?).
A black car is less noticeable so it gets less love and less hate. In my C7 behind a black Huracan cruising a street no one looked at us. Mind you it was a monday or tuesday evening. I drive a lot in the evenings, sunday to wednesday people have their head down on the sidewalks, they do not pay attention, they seem to be burdened by another week of work. Friday and Saturday is when people feel alive, going to restaurants looking at other people, guys looking at cars driving by. Yeah a bright orange car will be more noticeable. I get a lot of positive comments and sometimes pick up trucks cut me off or show they have torque and speed off.
What I do know from the consensus, newspapers, and general comments from working people at the lower pay scale most do not think for a second to what they say. They regurgitate words that was heard elsewhere, they act on these beliefs without using their intelligence. I loathed the same way they did when I was an employee towards employers who had lots of money. We were poor with awful paychecks, it was an achievement to afford a new fridge or stove. Those rich employers all cheated our paychecks if they could and where A-holes.
From that conclusion most people dislike those who make way more money because they associate the gap of wealth and oppression. Some of them would gladly teach a lesson to those rich bastards. Most cannot stop and think that some have started off poor and worked their way up to money and success. They do not ponder there's good people who "made it." Just look at the Corvette forum, when I announced I was aiming to buy a Lambo I could feel they abhorred those who could afford it because they couldn't.
This is only one example. This Ferrari belonged to my former boss, he made sure employees worked shifts in a way you couldn't have a 15 minute break. For example if you worked 3 hours, by law they had to give you a paid 15 minute break, so he made sure you worked a shift of 2 hours and 45 minutes. The boss would walk the store isles stoned on cocaine sniffing left and right checking his nose. One day he announced to the entire store he was making a million dollars a month in sales, we did all the leg work on the floor, he reaped the profits and we got Fock-all still at minimum wage struggling to buy groceries, just a smug SOB. He even coerced many 19 year old women to his office, one father sued him for sexual harassment and it made the news.
I was taking pictures of the car with my Corvette when he walked back to his car nodding towards me not recognizing I had worked for him. That's one example where it stems, it affected so many people leading people to despise wealth and status.
