April 28, Don’t let yourself misunderstand the “sincere” statement made by Bo Guagua, son of former high-flying politician Bo Xilai -- he honestly isn’t a fan of “flashy” red Ferraris. Instead, this princeling is happy with just a “classic” black Porsche.

The 24-year-old Bo Guagua received three traffic tickets while driving a black Porsche worth $80,000, the Wall Street Journal’s reported on Friday.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation records show Mr. Bo was stopped by police for allegedly running stop signs in December 2010 and May 2011, one of them at 2:20 a.m., and for speeding in February 2011.The license plate of the car, which the Journal learned from someone familiar with the matter, showed it was a black 2011 Porsche Panamera registered to someone at his address. 

Disputing a notion common in China that he lives a lavish lifestyle, Mr. Bo wrote to the Harvard Crimson on Tuesday saying he wished to address "rumors and allegations about myself." Among other things, "I have never driven a Ferrari," he wrote. The Wall Street Journal reported in November, based on people familiar with the episode, that Mr. Bo… arrived at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Beijing in a red Ferrari last year to pick up the daughter of the then-ambassador.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Monday described Bo Guagua as a "student in good standing at Harvard…You can draw your own conclusions from that."