What are the reasons for owning more than one of the same car?

Because he now can have the best looking garage in Texas! And the M is a great vehicle. There were only 75 US versions, and he owns two of them! That's a nice percentage of the market!

 

Oh, I forgot....you get really GOOD at changing batteries!

 

As soon as I get the chance (and the budget), I'd like to pick up a 355B to go with the 355 Spider and TR.

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with ridiculous income or bragging rights, because I don't make all that much and I use a 1970s Vespa every day (as opposed to showing off in the cars).

Its just one of those unexplainable passions - if you don't understand, there's nothing I can say that will explain it to you.

 

One of the funniest ones I've seen was on a ferrari, it said "my other car is a piece of s**t"

 

Reminds me of a lawyer I always see driving around where I live.

The license plate on his porsche is "PRE NUP"

 

This question actually came up for me, a while back. My (one owner) Celica AllTrac was getting old (10 years) and the local dealers started denying that the car ever existed. At the time ('98-'99), STis and EVOs weren't available in the US -- and the US model M3 was 80BHP short of the Euro version.

Another AllTrac in the area came up for sale about that time, and I gave serious thought to buying it to take some of the load off the one-owner. Ultimately, though, I concluded that it would wind up being just a parts car, with all the miles going on the one machine.

Instead, I went looking for an MR2 Turbo, which shared the same engine. Unable to find one of those, I started looking at its big brother: the Lotus Esprit. That got me into dealers that led me to the car I finally settled for as a summer "beater": My Ferrari 328.

I always have people asking why I need more than one car. I've even had an Italian car mechanic ask why I keep the Alfa when I have the Ferrari.

There are no "Universal Truth" answers for that kind of question. Like when people ask me why I don't just drive a Civic "like everyone else", the question itself indicates an uncrossable gulf of perspective. You can explain, but you probably won't make them understand.

The concept of "equality" doesn't make humans into interchangable parts. Viva la differance.

 

The simple answer is "because I like them".

I wouldn't mind having a GTB of some version to keep the GTS company. I also think a Mondial QV cab would look nice next to the 8.

 

Simple answer-"Because I can."

 

I can't believe no one's come up with the real reason for owning two of the same model Ferrari: so that when one of them breaks down and is in the shop for a MONTH getting fixed, you can still drive your car!

 

would you rather have 1 or 2 Ferrari's?


I have 2 Mustang CObra's. One is a dialy and is actually a rare car, only one of 499 ever built. The other is a 96, rebuilt motor, more of a fun car to modify and track it. They have diff. motors in each of them to, so they are both diff in there own respects. Plus its fun to say I have 2 Cobra's

 

For older cars one may have gone down the trail that I have: obtain two cars in order to combine the best of both into one restored car. (at least that is what I told my spouse). What actually happens is that the best one of the two gets all new parts, and the best of both end up on the secondary car, which now makes a great daily driver.