That’s great to hear. I can’t recall if you also had a gated 575 as well. Would love to know the comparison if u do. I was offered an oem gated 599 a few years ago for 350-400k from what I remember. In retrospect what a deal that was. At the time, I was so happy with my gated 575 I didn’t have the urge to upgrade. I still prefer the size and styling of the 575 over the 599
I think everyone here has a "one that got away" story. Actually would really love to hear some of those. My 575 is currently F1 but is headed up to Wil and Tom at Exoticars next week most likely for the work to be done. I just need to sit down for a while and gather my thoughts... but I would be more than happy to provide a full comparison between 550, OEM converted 575, and OEM converted 599. That said... it might just be easier to get Henry Catchpole to do it for me!
Very interesting, the privateer firmware patch, improving on a less than ideal set up of factory manual 599s. You have to love modern “garagista” innovation.
Very interesting about the 599 manual improvements. it’s interesting separately and an open question about babies born today and manual cars. A kid born today won’t be able to buy a new ICE car when they come of age. But for the ultimate collectibles logic is irrelevant as anyone who owns a Patek or a GTO knows. It’s all about cult rarity. Whether these cars will achieve that or be like top of the range fax machines is all up to..people!
Manual UK RHD 575, rosso Corsa on Nero, FHP, 10k miles, Modulars, Daytonas, carbon interior, on sale at £230k. No leather shelf, otherwise really the ultimate spec. If it were me looking at the car I would wonder if the seat wear is commensurate with mileage but otherwise this is the car with everything, particularly if you want this classic colour combo. https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/12389678
Thought that car looked familiar - it is in fact the same car that I referenced in post #4 on this thread back in 2015. Listing suggests that ‘Car Iconics’ are selling it again, but odd that they have been unable to do any better than to simply recycle their original 2015 images… P.S. The 575M badge is presumably a harmless late addition. The shields may also be aftermarket - hard to tell from these ‘arty’ shots. The grille could be an addition too - it is ‘250GT style’ - not GTO style!
The 575M badge appeared sometime in CY 2003, as did the standard (as opposed to optional) chrome grille. The grille was available very early in production as an option.
Correction. The Car Iconics car has the standard grill, in a bright finish. The 250GT style is more open - example below https://www.flickr.com/photos/131955886@N04/
I thought it looked vaguely familiar but can't claim to have remembered that post. I can't see the pix from the 2015 post but if they are the same that is dishonest and misleading of the dealer. Like posting an online dating picture of yourself taken a decade ago. I have been to look at cars whose pictures were taken years previously and always decided it made the dealers untrustworthy. is it just me who thinks that the pics, evidently albeit taken 7 years ago, still don't make the car look as tempting as it should be?
They also have a late 575M F1 HGTC listed with some better images, so maybe they will get around to it… https://www.car-iconics.com/product/575m-hgtc/ …and some other fairly impressive stock. The location is a former prison: HMP Ashwell which could explain some of the moody shots..
https://classicmotorhub.com/showroom/2004-ferrari-575m-manual-fiorano-package/ As I mentioned on another thread, I did try to buy this car many moons ago. I saw the original docs and the car was originally fitted with Modulars. I wonder what happened to them ?
Not the nicest looking example. Seats, interior, engine bay just looking a bit old and worn. 57,000 miles maybe shouldn't weigh so heavily. Although all of that can be fixed
Even so, that’s exceedingly cheap. I assume it’s miles away from the reserve. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
That really is going unloved. It's not the nicest spec although I really do like Grigio Alloy. Spec and miles aside, the fact it's a factory manual 575 in the new paradigm you'd generally expect it to be starting at 6 figures and pushing on from there. Whilst one car/sale doesn't make a market, this is saying more about the UK apetite in the current economy than anything else. Cracks started to appear a while ago, they are starting to open up now.
I suspect there's something specific to this car. Maybe the mileage, maybe the colour scheme, maybe the panel gaps mentioned in one of the comments. Maybe a combination or maybe something else. But Shiltech listed it for sale in October 2019 at £137,950. It was still listed by them in February last year but by then at £114,950 and didn't sell. Back in 2016 it was listed by Slades at £214,950 then £199,950 but didn't sell then either.
Alan, I believe you have it exactly right. My wife and I returned from a London visit only yesterday (aboard Queen Mary 2 !). My sense is that attention in UK is focused on an uncertain economy, the public also querulous about a very young and relatively inexperienced new PM, Rishi Sunak.
