Fun-loving Ferrari drivers aren't sinners, the sports carmaker says in response to the Vatican's recent comments criticizing the vanity of luxury car owners.

The Vatican on June 19 issued a 36-page document titled "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road," with 10 commandments on subjects including road rage, minding pedestrians and using cars as status symbols.

It also warned that cars can be "an occasion for sin."

Ferrari, which turns 60 this year, rebuffed the Vatican's guidelines.

At an event celebrating the company's anniversary in southeast Milan, the company's general manager said most people drive the cars for fun, not to inspire envy, Reuters reported Friday.

"Unless having fun has become a sin, I don't believe it [to be wrong]," said Amedeo Felisa, Ferrari's general manager.

He also advised, "You should commit at least one [sin] from time to time."