Why so many low mileage Ferraris out there?

1) This country is a lazy ass place. People don't want to work and look for ways out of it.
2) Roads are fine
3) I'll give you the first part, the second you are partially correct.

 

You really need to compare Ferrari use with other price comparable exotic car use (Bugatti, Macs, Lambos, etc.) to see if the trend is with ALL exotics or more associated with a particular brand such as Ferrari.

 

I've know a couple of people that own ferraris and based on what they have told me I can conclude the following:

1. They have a lot of cars so by the time they drive them all during the week they dont really increase their mileage.

2. People that are able to acquire Ferraris are influential, business people that may require to travel abroad. Very short terms they are in town to be able to use their cars.

3. Some do see their ferraris as a long term investment and decide to keep the cars intact as a trophy that later can be sold for profit.

4. In the Ferrari social circle, people want to brag about their ferrari collection, as an art piece you want to preserve it as long as possible. the only way to diminish risk is not driving your collection cars.

 

I look at my Ferrari like a piece of art and treat her with the same respect. I feel pain if I get a rock chip or any sort of 'normal wear and tear'. Besides having other cars to drive, being away from home a lot, I will only drive my Ferrari if I can be reasonable assured there is proper parking.

 

What I find most interesting about these types of threads is that Ferrari owners respond with all sorts of completely understandable reasons and the people with no Ferrari's listed as owning seem to think there's another answer than the ones we're giving.

 

You noticed that too huh?

 

I think post #9 (Rifledriver) got it right. Most Ferraris are not used as daily drivers, so each day the owner asks himself / herself "which car do I need to drive today"?

 

Seriously, WHO GIVES A ****?

My ODO had 30K on it.

My interior looked like it had 130K on it.

The engine rebuild in a few years will tell the best story.

Seriously, WHO GIVES A ****?

 

Pretty much what I was trying to say only I wasn't quite so umm boisterous about it.

 

After forty odd years of use I consider the odometer reading to be at best an educated guess.
At worst a bad joke.
Either way when it comes to how the car is driven its the gauge referred to the least.

 

People who shout?

 

A,B, and a little of I

not sure but I would guess less than 1% of posters here fits "G" (excluding buses, trains, subways, etc)

 

We have a lot of low mileage Ferraris here in the UK - Mainly because we run out of Country to drive through before we can amass a high mileage!

 

Oh Mark come on. If you don't drive it enough you clearly don't deserve it and must be some kind of poser.

There is no other possible reason.




Like I said earlier. Some are really obsessed with what others have and what others do.

 

Bet I'm the only person who has proof their mileage was wound FORWARD! Found this in the old paperwork from the 90s "new speedo set to estimated correct" 13555 (7 dec 90) from 6408 (15 May 90).

 

I have owned sports cars since 1970 and I may be a minority here but quite frankly at this point I really don't like driving.
I don't care if I ever put another mile on my remaining Ferrari.

 

No, but the constant poking at owners as if we're hiding the truth from the masses gets old.

Perhaps the simple answer is we don't drive our cars often because we don't have to.

 

That would be a great name for a New Wave band.




(If we were still in the New Wave era )

 

To confuse people.

 

Maybe this should be a whole other thread, but showing up for sales call in a pile of crap is often a formula for disaster, too... people generally like to deal with successful people - you want the best salesperson or the worst salesperson??? I'm not talking about like the guy has to show up with the most expensive tie, and a Rolex or Breitling, and pull up in a Maybach, but if the guy looks like he bought his suit from Target, and pulls up in a car that looks something out of John Candy's scenes in "Uncle Buck", I'm probably not going to have a whole lot of confidence in him, either.

So where does that line get drawn?

 

Wait... We're not? (Feeling old).

Do we have a good band name thread yet in silver? We should!

On the thread topic: funny how people who don't own a Ferrari are participating in answering on our behalf why we don't drive as much as someone thinks we should.

I'd talk about our 1,100 mile recent roadtrip, but people actually interested in the car already know about it.

 

interesting hijack.

I had a young guy (insurance agent) show up a bunch of years ago driving a VERY expensive Mercedes, wearing a fair amount of pricey personal items, watch, sunglasses, cufflinks, etc.

Now, for me, insurance was a big line item on my budget, and anything I could do to trim that number while maintaining good coverage, I was going to give a shot. But I was so off-put by his flash that we never really got past hello.

As I was never one to shy from commenting, he asked why I wasn't interested in what he was selling and I told him. "If you want to convince me that you're successful, then give me a competitive quote with an A rated company. I'm not impressed by your car and in fact it makes me concerned that you will try to push me to expensive companies to help pay for it."

We didn't get past that.

I think guys who sell showing up in cars that cost north of $75K today, are asking for trouble. Many more customers are going to be annoyed than thrilled to see an expensive carload of sales guys.

But it's not a hard and fast line. I had one customer who asked me to bring my Ferrari to a sales call. He was a really good customer, we gave him great prices, and I had a very solid relationship with him that was many years old. He knew about my car (he had a corvette that he drove to work all the time) as we talked cars a lot, but I would not normally bring that on a sales call. I never drove it to work, even though most of my employees knew I had one.

I dunno, maybe we should start a thread on this.

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Let's do it... Silver, Rossa, or B&I?

 

Well put but maybe it should read "never owned or disaffected".