https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2023-ferrari-296-gtb-3 sold for £180k list price likely to be £330k with options so £150k a good buy for someone imo
Speaking of comical. Just imagine spending $100,000 on a watch that only tells time - just like my old Timex. Or even worse, a couple of million dollars on a painting that you stick on a wall and it does nothing.
Why? I plan on getting a 296 GTS this fall or spring and expect to use it for a few years (till end of bumper to bumper warranty) and lose a lot of money in the process. With the hybrid engine, screens, and haptics, the car is just a fun piece of new technology. In 5 years time and once the warranty ends, I would much rather own a 458/488/F8.
Not to get into an argument here, but there are still screens in the 458/488/F8, and TT cars used to be discussed against NA similar to hybrids now. In 5 years, I do not know what I would like to own, but I sold my 458 and do not regret it.
Horses for courses. And- you might have a different opinion after driving it over that period of time. I could never go back to such inferior cars (458- maybe for sound).
THIS. I too had a 458. Every day I drive the 296 I cannot believe how much better it is- not remotely close. Ignorance is bliss.
It’s quite interesting when you dismiss a newer tech like Turbos or a hybrid setup because you like the naturally aspirated engine and the last of something that was in reality just a small interlude in the overall timeline of commuting via automobiles. We used to sell product into the hot rod and street rod industry where people with pre 1949 cars have a similar issue with latter cars. There’s people hanging onto cars with carburetors / manual only. The list goes on.
I don't get the "hybrid system unreliability/maintenance" commentary (not from anyone here specifically, but the broad discourse around it). I'm not disagreeing that it exists or is giving buyers pause, I just don't understand it. People routinely pile hundreds of thousands of miles on all kinds of different hybrids over the last 3 decades (decades!); even lithium ion battery vehicles are approaching 20 years old now. This is widely understood, widely deployed technology. It's also not like the ICE Ferraris were ever paragons of reliability or particularly light on maintenance - what is the going rate on an F355 major now? $25k due every 4 years? I once got a $21k suggested maintenance bill for my 458 Spider after a regular annual oil service. FF/Lusso PTU replacement - $30k job at a dealer? Yeah, 296s will be expensive out of warranty. It's a Ferrari.
I think it kind of started with the SF90 since the first few years there was some computer glitches. Plus, pump up the price during to Covid then big drop afterward got all the owner pissed off with salty taste in their mouth to start bashing the Ferrari new hybrid platform. 296 just got the overspill of these due to buyer not expecting to "lose money" on a Ferrari...which is comical.
But that's the UK, which is Bizarro world for the exotic car market. It's like judging tea parties based on what happened in Alice in Wonderland.
true, but you pull up with that car next to a guy on a horseback and he thinks you are one of them germaphobe vegans
