Can a Ferrari F430 be used as a Daily Driver? Around 100 Miles a Week?

Liking the old thread revival!
"There's some gold hidden in thar hills!"

Few months back I was at a club dinner and a fellow with a LaFerrari, 488, F12 TDF and a long list of earlier Ferraris said he thought his F430 was the first Ferrari he could use as a
daily driver... and he first owned a 355.

 

Interesting thread. Go to any Porsche club meet or forum and you can easily find cars with over 200,000 miles.
Ferrari is just a different animal evidently. Would like to see some 100,000 plus Ferrari’s

 

Mine just turned 40K! Working on it. 2004 360 though...

 

For me the 911 (2012.5, 82k miles) feels like much better of a daily driver... direct injection start up and go without warmup, uses less gas, nothing ever goes wrong, has fancy nav/bluetooth/etc. I’m sure I could daily the 360 if I really want to, but it takes a lot more focus to drive it around as transportation (for instance when negotiating uneven transitions without scraping) when I’d almost rather save the specialness for the weekend anyway.

 

Any Ferrari can be used as a DD as long as the weather permits and you are willing to put up with the pitfalls.....parking, potholes, bad gas mileage, unwanted attention, etc.

For me, the one BIG problem with driving an exotic everyday is that sooner or later, the "special-ness" and sense of occasion of driving a supercar dies down considerably. It's like playing your favorite song on the radio over and over again, sooner or later, you'll get tired of it. The good thing about driving Ferrari's only sporadically is that you build up anticipation between drive times. This way, each drive time becomes a special experience. Also, with older supercars, the lack of modern features like Bluetooth, navigation, advanced cruise control, Apple Carplay, etc. can be major annoyances if the car is used daily.

 

I made my 360 my DD several years ago. There are two issues that occasionally pop up:
1) it is low enough and the doors are long enough that some days you just don’t want to do that entry & egress.
2) Parts availability is spotty at times. Sometimes when it needs service you may be down for a week or two waiting on parts.

Otherwise, it is a great driver.


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If you do not plan to drive it don't buy it. I drive my 360 to work at least 1 day per week (66 mile round trip). Ferrari's were not built to be garage fixtures. I do recommend having alternate transportation as parts and service can be an issue.

 

I think yes because it has a bigger trunk then a lamboghini huracan

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But that doesn't stop most owners from treating them like one. How else can you explain the vast majority of them with so few miles?