I also MUST add that my posts on Fchat have nothing to do with the actual Challenge Stradale or Ferrari market. The assumption that every Ferrari buyer gets on Fchat to get opinions before buying is stinking crazy. A friend of mine wants a red 360 spider and has asked me to find him one. He loves Ferrari's and has for years but never owned one. He has never heard of Fchat. Fchat is a tiny community that 99.9999% of the people in this world have never heard of. Possibly some of the buyers for these cars have but I guarantee my posts don't make a market. No buyers with too many sellers make a market and that's it.
Thought maybe you bought that 4k mile storied CS from Porsche of the Main Line in PA? Did it actually sell? Or was it wholesaled/sold to another dealer (aka "Stradale Shuffle")?
I was interested in that car... but i didn't feel 125K, for a car with that story behind it, was a realistic number. Besides, they couldn't produce any pictures of the damage prior to the repair and I wasn't comfortable with what I see on the repair order.
RUF Auto Centre just sold a CS nearly identical to yours with 15k miles for $120k's. Car sold within a days of being listed. Wow! Congrats to new owner (Fchatter)!
Ruf is well known for pricing cars correctly and not holding onto inventory. We had a friend buy a perfect cgt from them for under 300k 6 months ago. They had it on the website for less than a week. The other guys selling cgt's in the 350's are just wasting internet server space. Another bought an almost new gt3rs same exact thing. top quality car with a realistic price sold within a week of listing. Possibly the cars sitting for months and some for well over a year are asking a touch too much with no demand? That car wasn't in the storied stradales thread so it must have been a good car would be my guess
I agree............wannabees bashing prices down so hopefully some day they can get mommy or daddy to buy them one
Why would you let that scare you off..... It's was something hit on the road that caused damage and that's an insurance claim. Whether or not you'd need to replace all four rotors is still questionable.
So one guy ahas a fluke incident with a pothole and your out? I guess you dont fly or hang glide or swim etc etc
I don't disagree while most see the cheaper entry point these days of Ferrari Ownership almost no one sees the actual costs when something goes wrong. This probably accounts for 25% of used Ferrari's for sale. I don't think we have that here. I truly think the 2 or 3 guys on Fchat wanting a CS can't talk the market down. The car history's possibly can but not a couple of guys on a car forum 99.999999% of the people in the world don't even know about.
well a Pothole hit and a Chute not opening are two very different things Ferrari's glorified parts pricing isn't something to discount I agree. I was looking at a repair bill this weekend and 1 rear Caliper priced last year from a dealer was $8250 and the Rear brake pads alone were $1841. Give me a break Ferrari.....My gt3 cups I could replace 4 brake pads for $300 bucks.
Im not coming back to this thread until one of the 2 guys posts pics of his new CS. MJA pls pm me when that happens
Actually, I'm a pilot. I have an airplane. I've had many airplanes. My airplane bills have never equated to a $50K Ferrari Brake job. "Someone" is making a lot of money on that deal.
Hi. Due to the lower prices of the CS in the US, I've been looking into what would be required in order to import one. I found this today, which could be good news for anyone looking at importing a US car into Canada: (From Wiki) Canada's bumper standard, first enacted at the same time as that of the United States, was generally similar to the U.S. regulation. However, the Canadian standard was not weakened from 8 km/h (5 mph) to 4 km/h (2.5 mph) in accord with the weakened U.S. standard of 1983. Some automakers chose to provide stronger Canadian-specification bumpers throughout the North American market, while others chose to provide weaker bumpers in the U.S. market, which hampered private importation of vehicles from the U.S. to Canada. In early 2009, Canada's regulation shifted to harmonize with U.S. Federal standards and international ECE regulations.[8] Consumer groups are upset with the change,[9] but Canadian regulators assert that the 4 km/h (2.5 mph) test speed is used worldwide and is more compatible with improved pedestrian protection in vehicle-pedestrian crashes.
