How much Difference $$$ wise on Mileage.

Toss out all the options as they mean virtually nothing in resale unless YOU really want them. Chances are the next guy you sell it to won't.

IMO, don't worry about it. Buy the car you really want to own. Never walk away from the car you want for a few grand. You don't buy these every day.

The only deal breaker for me personally would be the LED wheel. I personally wouldn't want one without that feature as it is really useful. The most useless thing on a 458 is the tach. You have no time to look at it so the LEDs are an indication of what's going on.

Pick the car you like best then negotiate your best price.

Then drive and be happy.

 

You can go to My Ricambi and buy a lot of CF for a lot less than the difference in price...

 

Seem like both are very low mile 458's
Personally I don't care for CF, but these options are $$$ if you want to install them yourself, you will never get the money back that you paid for in options
So the only thing that matters is mileage and clean record, if price is the same I would take the low mileage car

 

Having little info to go on, I'm wondering why you would trade a car that you've already taken a bath on for the same model year car with less options that you will take another bath on in a short 4700 miles (personally, I don't believe 10k is the magic number, but maybe it is)? Unless there's a warranty issue or an unreported incident with your car and you just want to dump it, I'd much rather keep my higher optioned car with my own known mileage rather than a stripper model car that might have been flogged all over hell and gone for 5000 of it's 5300 miles.

While I know the general rule is toss out the options as you won't get a penny for them on resale, I think the options you have on your car are highly desirable to most buyers and should give you a little bump in value. Only when you start adding cf or leather or alcantara in every nook and cranny for an extra $80k do the options get much more scrutinized. Certainly, $35k is not a reasonable variance in value and I would tell the dealer to try again. Say you deserve an extra $6-8k for your options, he's gutting you for $40k+ just because of 6800 miles - that's a roughly $6/mile hit.

 

White became the new yellow. It's hard to find today.

 

Kinda figured it was color related - that seems to be the only reason to justify the move. You seem to have a handle on what you'll pay, just sounds like you need to find a dealer to make a reasonable offer.

 

Here is a suggestion: Go to one of the car pricing sites (Edmunds, et. al.) and run the same car with the two mileages holding everything else constant to get an approximation of the mileage delta and run for each color to determine if color makes much of a difference difference. You can run the options to determine how much they may add in making your decision as well as the trade-in and retail a dealer stands to make. Good luck!

 

Just a thought but what about wrapping the car, changing the seats and installing a back up camera? You can keep all your original bits if you decide to sell later but you get the features for a lot less than $35k.


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I can see yellow cars coming back because

1) they are beautiful
2) they are pretty rare today.

I have no idea why so many people like white on an exotic car, but they do.

If yellow turns you on, get yellow. Otherwise you'll always wonder if you made the right choice.

 

Yellow Speciales are - Speciale!


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Color is a matter of taste...there is no right or wrong.

While white looks great my experience is that it gets old after awhile.

Yellow is way too: hey look at me.

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Agree with mayor. I don't know...but I probably will buy a watch with the 35k difference. Then wear it with the car. But if you like it enough...then go for it...

 

+10. And I think you must have let the dealer know you wanted yellow BAD...have your friend called the dealer pretending to be a new customer and low ball them, and see what happens.

 

^ Agreed

 

Wide World Ferrari in Spring Valley NY has a beautiful Yellow '12 458 sitting on the floor. I was just there. 5800 miles - $198k. It has the LED steering wheel,to me which is a must IMHO. Just letting you know.

 

It's hot. Love the quilted stitching on the seats and headliner. It also has a CF lip on the rear spoiler which I didn't know was on option. It looks nice.


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I wouldn't do this trade, but it does make sense (to me at least).

Stand in the shoes of WWF for a minute. They own the yellow 458. It needs to pay its way - finance cost, share of business overheads etc.
Using your numbers WWF sells it to you for $190,000.
WWF buys your red 458 for $155,000. It needs to pay its way - finance cost, share of business overheads, sale preparation costs, possible warranty claims, whatever.
They later sell it for $180,000, giving them a gross margin of $25,000 minus all of the above.

The $35,000 changeover is confronting, but it probably doesn't make sense for WWF to do it for much less.

That yellow 458 is gorgeous though.
And it has the seats you need

 

Too low imo. I think I would pay $25,ooo plus your car. The profit margins on both cars are too high. When you trade the yellow 458 again they will try to low ball you because of seats and color