Ferrari threatens to sue customer over his Instagram posts

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
5 Aug 2019
1 min read

German fashion designer Philipp Plein has found himself in hot water with his favourite car brand, Ferrari.

Photos of his lurid green 812 Superfast with models in bikinis, or promoting his range of sneakers, has seen a legal firm purporting to be representing the Italian manufacturer send Plein a cease-and-desist letter. 

Basically, Ferrari don't like the way this guy flaunts his affluent lifestyle on Instagram. The 48-hour grace period has expired so everyone is keen to see if the promised legal action will eventuate.

If Ferrari don't like this guy then hopefully they don't start looking at Dan Bilzerian's accounts...

Is Ferrari right to send Philipp a cease-and-desist letter? Let us know in the comments.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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