2016 Cali T HS Press Car

This may be relevant...

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/118-prss-option.583972/#post-146210249

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"Press Car" means that the car has been driven by a long series of testers/auto journalists who had no financial skin in the game and drove the car hard. It wasn't broken in properly and wasn't warmed up properly before being used hard.. It is like buying a rental car that was rented by car enthusiasts who wanted to see what it could do. It should sell for a big discount. If you buy it,make sure that you have factory warranty coverage.

 

Ask for an extension of warranty as part of your deal (or discount) these cars can take a good hard drive and be fine just make sure you test and let them do a free service etc. And as was mentioned, negotiate for a good price that comes with the risk.

 

not for $172k....

 

I was the guy looking at the PRSS car selling in Florida. It is a California Blu with Cuoio interrior (nice two tone steering wheel). They already discounted that car again, in the last week, to $172k. It’s interesting that these cars are hitting the market at the same time with roughly the same mileage. I was told by the dealer in FL that this car was built for an executive but I just find that hard to believe, so I talked with someone associated with Ferrari North America and they told me that Ferrari doesn’t give cars to executives for extended use. I hate it when car dealers behave like car dealers, if they were honest with me I would still not have bought this car, but would have considered them for future purchases, but now I will not.

The carfax is revealing for these cars. The FL car had a suspension service (see above about driving the cars hard) in Michigan. Ferrari NA is in New Jersey, so I am confident that the PRSS option is In fact used to denote press and media cars that are used for media events. I really didn’t want to opent that can of worms and certainly not for a car that was selling basically at market rate. The never-been-titled aspect is an interesting aspect of the pre-owned purchase but you have to balance that out with the fact that the build sheet will follow the car through its life and it is clearly identified as a “press car”.

As for features, there really isn’t anything special on the car. The option package is certainly rich, no manufacturer is going to give a bare bones car to a journalist. I’m sure the media cars are regularly detailed but that also has risk if the paint is repeatedly corrected it will decrease the thickness and have long term implications.

 

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/cars+under+170000/Ferrari/California/Pomona+CA-91768?zip=91768&startYear=2016&endYear=2017&makeCodeList=FER&searchRadius=0&modelCodeList=FERCALIF&trimCodeList=FERCALIF%7CT&maxPrice=170000&maxMileage=15000&sortBy=derivedpriceDESC&numRecords=25&firstRecord=0
IDK, but when there are 12 2016/2017 California T on Autotrader under $170k. and they are NOT press cars (may be some are, but not all 12 are).

 

I see. how about these? they are all HS

$180k
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=484365987&zip=91768&referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fsearchresults.xhtml%3Fzip%3D91768%26keywordPhrases%3DHandling%26startYear%3D2016%26maxMileage%3D15000%26incremental%3Dall%26endYear%3D2017%26modelCodeList%3DFERCALIF%26makeCodeList%3DFER%26sortBy%3DderivedpriceDESC%26maxPrice%3D250000%26firstRecord%3D0%26searchRadius%3D0%26trimCodeList%3DFERCALIF%257CT&startYear=2016&numRecords=25&maxPrice=250000&firstRecord=0&endYear=2017&modelCodeList=FERCALIF&makeCodeList=FER&searchRadius=0&makeCode1=FER&modelCode1=FERCALIF

$173k
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=485978906&zip=91768&referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fsearchresults.xhtml%3Fzip%3D91768%26keywordPhrases%3DHandling%26startYear%3D2016%26maxMileage%3D15000%26incremental%3Dall%26endYear%3D2017%26modelCodeList%3DFERCALIF%26makeCodeList%3DFER%26sortBy%3DderivedpriceDESC%26maxPrice%3D250000%26firstRecord%3D0%26searchRadius%3D0%26trimCodeList%3DFERCALIF%257CT&startYear=2016&numRecords=25&maxPrice=250000&firstRecord=0&endYear=2017&modelCodeList=FERCALIF&makeCodeList=FER&searchRadius=0&makeCode1=FER&modelCode1=FERCALIF&digitalRetail=true

$172k
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=495895694&zip=91768&referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fsearchresults.xhtml%3Fzip%3D91768%26keywordPhrases%3DHandling%26startYear%3D2016%26maxMileage%3D15000%26incremental%3Dall%26endYear%3D2017%26modelCodeList%3DFERCALIF%26makeCodeList%3DFER%26sortBy%3DderivedpriceDESC%26maxPrice%3D250000%26firstRecord%3D0%26searchRadius%3D0%26trimCodeList%3DFERCALIF%257CT&startYear=2016&numRecords=25&maxPrice=250000&firstRecord=0&endYear=2017&modelCodeList=FERCALIF&makeCodeList=FER&searchRadius=0&makeCode1=FER&modelCode1=FERCALIF

there are many more at $200k, but are 2017.

 

The carbon fiber interior pieces are really nice. I was surprised to find that not many of the cars I looked at had the carbon fiber interior and when I found the car I ultimately purchased, it did not have this and I thought about passing but the other aspects were strong.

The $180k car you included in the list has one of the best option packages I have seen on a California T.

 

World Wide is a solid dealer. I bought a car from them, would buy another.