This is pretty big, if true. Ever since I discovered that pirates were holding back the forces of global warming, I have been looking for correlations such as these.
Ferrari vs. Markets
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#22Every cargo shipment entering the U.S. generates a customs manifest—product descriptions, quantities, ports, shippers, and declared values. 8,818 Ferraris were detected in U.S. customs data from 2020–2026, averaging 121 per month. Import volumes correlate with Bitcoin (+0.70), S&P 500 (+0.74), and NASDAQ (+0.68).
Appreciate you adding the correlations. Wow, those are higher than I would have thought.
I highly doubt they did this correlation properly. It looks like they just correlated two time series. Both series are correlated with time (both go up over time) and not each other. I eyeballed the series and correlated just the directions, when BTC goes up, it is 50/50 whether or not imports went up. I am pretty sure this correlation would be near 0 if you detrended the time series.
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#23These beauties will never taste the tarmac of a racetrack where they belong :( Actually they also belong in the living room of any mansion worth such name so I guess it's fair
I've driven a friend's 488 on the track, so some of them certainly do!
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#24This is pretty big, if true. Ever since I discovered that pirates were holding back the forces of global warming, I have been looking for correlations such as these.
lol wut, pirates weren't holding back global warming. Rather, an increase in showering caused a decrease in smelliness, and _that_ caused global warming.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting correlation. Can we infer from this that Ferraris are typically purchased by people whose income comes from investments rather than salaries?
I think for a new Ferrari there’s a fair chance it’s salaried individuals. There are quite a few folks who probably make enough to purchase a $400k-$800k car from their salaries. For ultra rare or special variants I think it’s unlikely as the percentage of someone’s net worth would likely be entirely consumed by the vehicle even at several million dollars a year. An example is an Enzo that sold this year for $17.6 mi…
did you ever read the story of the fox and the grapes?
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#26Every cargo shipment entering the U.S. generates a customs manifest—product descriptions, quantities, ports, shippers, and declared values. 8,818 Ferraris were detected in U.S. customs data from 2020–2026, averaging 121 per month. Import volumes correlate with Bitcoin (+0.70), S&P 500 (+0.74), and NASDAQ (+0.68).
Appreciate you adding the correlations. Wow, those are higher than I would have thought.
you would not expect that the purchase of luxury goods would correlate with appreciation in various investment markets?
if not then, when Lambo?
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#27Enigma Technologies sells customs manifest search; the Ferraris are marketing bait. Their headline correlations (Bitcoin +0.70, S&P +0.75) are meaningless — any two trending series from 2020–2026 will correlate due to shared macro shocks. Their own showcase contains VINs from Jaguar and Land Rover misclassified as Ferraris, revealing mechanical parsing without validation.
Look at these VINs:
SAJWA4GB2DLB50982 — This is a Jaguar VIN prefix, not Ferrari. Listed under “458 458 ITALIA”
SALLDHMV8BA298639 — This is Land Rover. Listed under “488 GTB TURBO ABS”
The page is data about data-selling, dressed as analysis.
This is the flat-earther epistemology problem.
Flat-earthers’ beliefs tell you nothing about the shape of the Earth, but their existence tells you something about humans. Similarly, this page tells you nothing about Ferraris or markets. It tells you what a B2B data company believes will attract clicks: luxury objects, stock tickers, correlation coefficients presented without methodology. The content is a signal about marketing culture, not economic signal about anything.
The web is saturated with this species of artifact, simply put, web pages built not to inform but to rank, to appear in searches, to gesture at sophistication while delivering none.
B2B is particularly fertile ground because the audience is assumed to be busy, skimming, and impressed by dashboards. The dozens of Ferrari photos aren’t information; they’re texture. The correlation numbers aren’t findings; they’re decoration.
This is the substrate on which large language models train. Not a library with noise, but a noise machine with library fragments embedded.
Billions of dollars spent to grow models that simply learn to reproduce the texture of authority with extreme confident tone, the fake mathematician with a white coat, the implied rigor.
No one is coming to clean this up because the garbage is the product. Pollution is the business model.
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#28Every cargo shipment entering the U.S. generates a customs manifest—product descriptions, quantities, ports, shippers, and declared values. 8,818 Ferraris were detected in U.S. customs data from 2020–2026, averaging 121 per month. Import volumes correlate with Bitcoin (+0.70), S&P 500 (+0.74), and NASDAQ (+0.68).
.74 is pretty weak for a correlation, and correlation is already mostly meaningless on its own
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#29Enigma Technologies sells customs manifest search; the Ferraris are marketing bait. Their headline correlations (Bitcoin +0.70, S&P +0.75) are meaningless — any two trending series from 2020–2026 will correlate due to shared macro shocks. Their own showcase contains VINs from Jaguar and Land Rover misclassified as Ferraris, revealing mechanical parsing without validation. Look at these VINs: SAJWA4GB2DLB50982 — This…
Wow, that’s a lovely analysis. I have nothing to add but thanks.
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#30Enigma Technologies sells customs manifest search; the Ferraris are marketing bait. Their headline correlations (Bitcoin +0.70, S&P +0.75) are meaningless — any two trending series from 2020–2026 will correlate due to shared macro shocks. Their own showcase contains VINs from Jaguar and Land Rover misclassified as Ferraris, revealing mechanical parsing without validation. Look at these VINs: SAJWA4GB2DLB50982 — This…
While I agree with this, it's ironic that you used AI to generate it, the very tool that enabled the marketing slop explosion of today.