Our cars....

I agree that they are meant to be driven.

Next thursday I will drive my car from Milan@Italy to Genova, Bologna and Maranello. Really looking forward to participate in Ferrari 70years celebrations in Modena county.

All will die, but not all have lived!

 

Joel... Great story. My wife and I have driven from DFW out west many times, including several trips in the Porsche. None yet in the Ferrari. Hopefully, one day.

I've put almost 9 K in 15 months on my Cali, and like you, I've hardly seen any F-cars out in the wild, apart from FCA events and such. Shame really...T

 

Well said ! I've been getting my mondial into a reliable daily for my wife and I to enjoy with our kids. The trips are getting longer and longer and last weekend we used it as our primary car and took it to church too! Looking forward to the trip to Watkins Glen a few hours away for the fall FCA meet !

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The last thing someone is thinking about on their deathbed is their Ferrari.

 

I agree halfway. We also enjoy long trips and rarely go to local cars and coffee. But how anyone else uses their car I never find troubling to me as it's none of my business. If someone doing all the local shows makes them very happy then great. Who am I to lament how they use their own stuff.

Many people would not find a thousand miles in a 30 yr old Italian convertible relaxing at all.

 

"Make a plan... take a road trip. Go see things, do things, but, most of all, go truly enjoy your car by driving it..."
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104,000 miles and ~45 States. Longest road trip ~7,800 miles. Road trip with wife (it all fits!!) and packed for solo trip with handy snacks!!

Steve
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Love the Maranellos, great car for a road trip

 

35K on my baby in 10 yrs

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She is at FoH getting 100,000 mile service and her first new clutch. Survived the flood!!!!

Steve

 

This has got to be some sort of a record. <clapping with long pauses>

 

Love it.

 

...on FChat years ago; I believe named 'Bart'.....he also put high mileage on his 550 betw LAX and Vegas. Da Mayor may know/of him...... or Darth....

 

Short trips can be great to...as in a daily driver. My first Ferrari was back in 1993. A 1980 308 GTSi with 88k miles. Whatever could break or was needed, the first owner had already paid for. For the next three years it was my only car. Dog to the vet, shopping at Ralphs, work, pleasure, jury duty...it was my only car. Three years later I sold it with 124k. Got only $2000 less than I paid for it so all was right with the world. Has only one mechanical failure in all those miles...the original clutch broke at 5 pm on a Friday afternoon. I had my support system in place and so the second shop I called had the part and I was back on the road by noon Saturday. The car was great fun every time I got in it. Now 24 years later I'm looking around for my second Ferrari. When I think of who I am and what I want to pay, I bounce back and forth between an early Mondial and a Dino 308 gt4. Can't say which or when I'll pull the trigger but it will once again be my daily driver.

 

I'm with the drivers - over 5000miles since end of April.

 

It's good to see there are others out there that enjoy the cars by actually driving them. Aside from lots of road trips, one of my favorite things to do is buy a car, fly in and drive home. So far....

Testarossa...... Minomenee, MI to Phoenix, AZ
Mondial t cab...Buffalo, NY to Phoenix
F40.......OC, CA to Phoenix (possible record time of 3 hrs, 20 mins)
Porsche 928S4......Springfield, MO to Phoenix
Lotus Esprit Turbo... NJ to Phoenix
Lotus Elan.........Dalas to Phoenix

Every trip I have done with an exotic is filled with great memories and lots of new friends!

 

yup. love the ferrari road trips and adventures. done them many times, and it has usually worked out pretty well.

besides doing the giro di sicilia and the targa florio in the 512bbi, and the mille tribute in the 360cs, i drove the f40 back to geneva from bob houghton's shop, and then numerous long trips in the 360 cs, the 512tr and the 456mgt. i think cumulatively i have driven ferraris about 50k miles in the last 17 years. and included in that are many trips that i will never forget - with my wife, my son, my dad, and friends.

and in 5 days am about to do it again....

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/silver-subscribed-private-forum-sponsored-yellow-compass-group/558036-thinking-going-vegas.html

 

I agree and I guess everyone has different reasons for not driving them- mine is the draconian speed laws and limits here In australia which I must say are the the worst I've experienced - I have Spent time in the US (FL and CA) the U.K., Asia etc and I find Australia unlike any other place I've lived in. I even sold my motorbikes as I feel I can't ride them here, and also can't drive a Ferrari properly without staring at the speedometer constantly

 

Glad that the OP and others are driving their cars. I would point out that you really don't get to know these cars with just short trips. You owe it to yourself to drive a whole day in one sitting. The car will learn your style and do things in anticipation of you. The drivetrain will definitely behave differently. Its weird to see folks buy a car and then post how fast and how much of a driver or 'raw' car it is but then sell it with only adding 1K miles or so. That said, I need to drive mine more this year before it gets cold and the tires lose traction. The early Fall is my favorite time to drive around here.

 

"You owe it to yourself to drive a whole day in one sitting."
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Have driven 1000+ miles (longest 1400 miles) with only food, fuel, BR break multiple times in the Maranello. Now that we are both old, 15 and 73 years, long trips together are in the past. (Three weeks ago, the wife's Cayenne S and I went on a 2500 mile jaunt but not the same as a Ferrari trip).

Steve