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The Ferrari Impostor

The image that I posted for this week’s challenge was what I thought was a photograph of a Ferrari. I’m not familiar with expensive automobiles so I was fascinated that a Ferrari would be parked in a Golden Corral parking lot.

After taking several photographs with my cell phone we went home and I promptly forgot about those photos until I uploaded them to my computer.

Imagine my surprise when I started researching Ferraris to learn which model this particular car might be and discovered that the car with the Ferrari emblems that I had photographed was actually a General Motors Saturn Sky!

The owner of the car had replaced all of the Saturn emblems with Ferrari emblems. A real auto aficionado would most likely have known immediately that the Saturn was not a Ferrari and I bet the owner had many a laugh watching people photographing his car thinking that it was an expensive luxury sports car built in Italy.

Knock off luxury goods are all around us. Purses, shoes, cars and electronics often have a luxury brand name or emblem on them. How often are we fooled by those emblems? Having that emblem does not necessarily mean that the object is “the real thing” with the high quality that the name brand promises. We need to look at all aspects of the object to determine if it is genuine or an impostor.

Could my experience with the Ferrari Impostor possibly be a life lesson on a deeper level?

I’ll let you chew on that food for thought while I process another photograph of the Impostor!

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