F8 In line for F8 spider

Friday I decided to sign the paperwork and put down a deposit for an F8 spider. I’m in a nice long line, that will probably see me getting the car sometime around this time next year. But that’ll be just in time for spring/summer of 2022!

This car was ordered to compliment my 812 SuperFast, and for my wife to enjoy as her Ferrari. After we checked out a couple other spiders we decided to settle on this one as the best all around car. The spec is a no carbon/no shields signature for me. Though the wheel is pictured as the carbon LED wheel, it is spec’d as the full leather wheel with LEDs. If it were up to me, I’d go Grigio silverstone exterior with Nero interior and red accents. But it is her Ferrari and I think the Bianco Cervino with Red leather and white stitching will look fantastic. The seats are the full electric with alcantara inserts with diamond stitched pattern. This spec pretty well matches the M3 she had before I sold it lol. To round out the spec, it also was optioned with CarPlay, adaptive cruise control, parking sensors, front lift, passenger display, and the Hifi stereo.

On to the pictures!


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Honestly, it showing up much later doesn't bother me much. I have my 812 to enjoy until the F8 spider shows up. Q3/4 of '22 isn't ideal time in Seattle for a spider, but we'll see what happens. For now, my savings account thanks the Ferrari production line lol

 

Good call on the leather for the headliner, I'm going to have to look at that option. I've been spending a lot of time with the special options PDF and thinking about any special additions. So my spec will probably change a little bit before I have to lock it in.

I have the LED Leather wheel in my 812, it's very good! No carbon for me!
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As for the full spec here it is:
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I did red leather seat backs, but didn't change the rear firewall color/material. I'm trying to not get too insane with the spec. Right now my spec is just about $370k USD. That's pretty much what I'd like to keep the spec at unless there is an option I really should change/add.

 

I’m not a fan of shields, and don’t care how it effects the resale. I will forever be that client who doesn’t order the shields. I think the shields clash color wise, and line wise.

As far as the red, it is certainly brighter in person. That’s why I opted to keep a decent amount of black in the interior. I’ve seen an all red interior, and boy was it loud and bright lol. I find this to be a happy medium as what I’ve spec’d, I’ve seen on other V8 spiders.

 

Agreed, I think the red is much better in person. My wife loves a red interior, I'm more of a black with some red contrast stitching fan myself. But I got to enjoy specing my 812, so I let her do the spec on the F8 spider.

 

I’m not worried at all about the resale on it. I’ll suffer far more because it’s going to have like 150k miles on it if I ever do sell it. I don’t tend to sell cars, it’s part of the way I justify spending all this money on them. If I’m going to spend so much money on cars, I better amortize that enjoyment for many many years. For cars that I do plan to resell, I buy them used and under market value. But I do understand that 95/100 potential buyers require shields when buying used.

 

Hell yeah! These cars are meant to be driven. I'm sitting just below 9k miles on my 812SF that I've had in my possession since mid-August.

 

0 options, that is impressive! I have a friend who got a 488 GTB with 1 option, the carbon buckets. I believe it's the lowest optioned car ever sold by my dealer.

 

Another side of this might be that it isn't hard to resell. There's always lots of people looking for the 'lowest' price Ferraris. And since the MSRP on a 0 option Ferrari is going to be the lowest, it will also be closer to the bottom of the price spectrum even with lower miles. So it could actually be not bad to sell, and it also might be a lower $ figure in loss.