Considering an exotic

If are you considered the R8, Huracan and Cali, you may want to add the 458 to the list. You can easily get a good one towards the upper end of your price range. And it is dynamically superior to all the cars on the list. If you need useable rear seats, the FF is going to be impossible to beat. I have a 458 and I'm looking to add a FF to the stable soon (baby due in December).

 

FF sounds like the one for you. In my opinion, black and white look best on the FF. Dark blues as well IMO. Low key colors to boot. Better yet, find an example with no shields (can an FF be easily de-shielded?). F-chatter ttforcefed has posted pics of his dark blue, no shields FF. Gorgeous!

As for the shape, I view it the way I view my Cali's maligned big butt, meh, can't see it from the cockpit, so who cares! The sound that a Ferrari makes add the rooms is what makes the experience, for me anyway.

Good luck in your hunt. My wife & I are a year into living our Ferrari dream, and it's everything it's cracked up to be!

T

 

Bill Gates aside I didn't know the richest people in the world lived in seattle...

Unlike an orange huracan, a dark FF won't attract much attention. Only car guys can recognize the premium GT it is...

I think the FF will be perfect for you. Have you also considered an F12 ?

You shoudn't worry about your personnality fitting your car. The only important thing is the pleasure you'll have by owning and driving it.

And in general, enjoy your car, you worked for it, we only live once. As long as you don't terrorize the neighborhood with a very loud exhaust, what other people think of your car shoudn't be that important...

 

I would go with a 458. You won't get burned too badly on prices. The quality is good. It is gorgeous and a fantastic drive. I think the FF is too close to your DD. You already have that. The 458 would give you greater variety. Get one in Oliver's preferred grey or my preferred blue and you will be all set. I suggest Blu TDF (tour de france blue).

 

Make your dreams come true! It is addicting so watch out. I think you should consider the 458. Amazing car, drive a different family car!

 

Sounds like a low-key FF is for you. As for the shields, I assume they can be wrapped thus make them invisible if you like.

If you are going to pick between Huracan or R8 V10+, go with R8. Both are identical (same turtle, different shell) but R8 is a better car. Better screen and interface inside. More ergonomic and slightly more storage room. Higher top speed--if you ever wanna go there. More usable overall. The only thing Huracan does better is turning heads.

 

Seattle does have legit wealth

Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Paul Allen (Microsoft)
Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Howard Shultz (Starbucks)
Boeing Family

Plus huge tech and biotech and all the associated wealth with these companies and other putting huge offices in seattle (google, Facebook) but very true - very few high end cars driven around. Manly high end teslas.

 

There were 1 LaFerrari Aperta, 1 LaFerrari, 1 F12 tdf, 1 599 Aperta, 1 458 Speciale Aperta, 1 250 GTO, and close to 100 total Ferrari showed up at a recent event at Redmond Town Center (east of Seattle). Granted, many of the LE cars belong to the same gentleman.

I daily drive mine (458, now an F12). I have had good luck in Seattle and most people are positive. Go for it!

 

Move to Vancouver. No one will give you a second glance if you're driving any of the aforementioned. Problem solved.

 

You only live once, go for it. Seattle is in a post Grunge green intelligentsia thing. We get it Seattle, Tesla is the future (and you really like coffee) ... and until then ... drive a Ferrari.

The Huracan is cheap on the inside, quick on the track, but not a car for real life. I agree with the 458 or FF post. The FF in black is just weird as it hides the shape, and won't get you haters.

If you can find a FF with no shields it saves you money, like 5 to 10,000. I think it's ugly, but that's taste for you.

I would also not see them as "exotic" that's not right. They are highest quality and for the car lovers only.

 

FF without a question


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I think the darker reds complement the lines of the FF more than their brighter reds like Corsa. There are a few rubino micalizzato on cars.com you could check out, to see if that is to your taste.

There's a really tasty black over cioccolato, no shields, 2015 at Wide World Ferrari.

T

 

FF no question about it


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Actually Moscow is the city with the most billionaires in the world. Not that it means anything of course.

Anyway, I don't line standing out of the crowd either, but if it's only for pleasure on mountainous roads and tracks go for a flashy car! You 'll be amongst fellow enthusiasts after all.

 

Not really. The Huracan is shorter, lighter, quicker overall and more alert. The R8 is more stealthy and usable.

 

Diamond stitching on the FF looks like you're driving a casket IMO. And red leather is not understated, but it's YOUR CAR buy what you love.

This is a car that looks good to me:http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/ferraris/547800-2013-ferrari-ff.html

Listed now for 169. More options and lower miles. And it's an FChatters car

 

Indeed. There are so many black FF's. I'd like to guess it's the most popular FF color. I wonder why.

Hey, I thought you like black.

That's what I'd like to know, too. IMO, don't get same color interior and exterior, ie black/black, but that's just me.

 

FF. It's amazing. Everytime i drive my father's i have a blast. It's also great that i can put my son in his car seat in the back and he can have fun as well.

It sounds amazing. And it really shrinks as you drive faster.
Go for it.

 

First 3 I wouldn't' do because no LEDs. No LEDs no deal!

 

As others have said, definitely FF. Perhaps try find one in TDF Blue or one of the darker reds. Irrespective of colour the FF is an amazing car, I recall one trip I had in the back of one, at 155 mph I was super comfortable and over the mountain passes the FF kept up with much lighter cars.

Of course there is the V12 sound but the true genius of the FF is its versatility.