Why to drive only 2'000km/year when you can do 20'000km/year?

I can share a couple of perspectives. I used to drive my 458 and then my F12 daily (I own them individually), including errands and commuting. I found that reducing the more mundane drives help with heightened enjoyment when I go for early morning drives (currently have a 488 GTB). In addition, if you are splitting the fun miles between multiple cars, it reduces the mileage significantly. When I finally get my hands on a Porsche 991.2 GT3, I might not even get to drive the Ferrari every weekend.


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My guess is more of us stretched a bit to buy the car in the 1st place than should have and thus the concern about value of depreciating assets.

 

I don't want the attention that comes w/ driving a Ferrari that often.

 

I normally drive my F12 once or twice a week but there have been times, due to rain and roads being wet and dangerous or simply because I was away, when I didn’t drive the car for at least one month. After these longer periods of “abstinence” when after I went for a ride invariably I felt the experience was more evolving than normally and closer to that first time I got behind the wheel , pressed the starter button and went off with the F12.

I’ve driven 7 000 Km in one year but to be honest what really matter to me isn’t the quantity of miles done but always the quality of each ride. I really enjoy taking the F12 on a long journey and normally I start on a motorway, where all the aerodynamic features can be sensed and put to good use at high speed. Then when I’m off the motorway and on the countryside roads everything changes and is really a great feeling seeing how the F12 negotiates the sections with curves using the precision of it's steering, the manual gear-shifts and that instantaneously responsive accelerator. The experience is always enhanced because all that happens while the majestic V12 sings in it's different tones. To conclude I would like to say that I have absolutely nothing against other owners who daily drive their Ferraris or do a lot of mileage per year because if they are able to do it that's great. As far as I’m concerned I’ve been able to have an enormous satisfaction with my V12 Ferrari even knowing that the number of miles I've done in one year is quite limited.

 

Having gotten hit once last year, the possibility of hail storm is the only thing during warmer months that would prevent me from going for a drive. Unfortunately, the possibility of hail storm is frequent near where I live.

 

While I was debating the purchase of a Rolex, my friend said, "Don't be the richest man in the graveyard."

 

Totally agree!!!

 

If you live in a city and/or have kids, it's a bit hard to find the right occassion to enjoy the car fully. I drive my F12 in the summer maybe once or twice a week to the office, which is a bit silly in central Moscow with speed limit of 60 km/h, and then on the weekends it's usually a full family (plus a dog) trip to our dacha, for which I usually try to use my 991 GTS as the kids (and the dog) still fit in the rear seats - otherwise you have to make a special effort to drive away from the family in the F12 - which happens maybe a couple of times over the summer season when I drive with my wife to visit friends or go to a race track.

It's a pity, really, because life goes by so fast and the times when you hit 250 km/h+ on the freeway in a V12 Ferrari have been one of the best in my life...