Daily drivers: the future has started

For me a Supercar is not about driving in traffic or picking up groceries

For me its for special days when I need to have my whole body tingling from excitement after doing warp speed in a badazz ride. Driving a Ferrari to pick up milk doesnt really do that for me

 

So, you don't do warp speed to pickup the milk? For me it is the drive - to anywhere for any reason.

 

Well, I think modern Ferrari is more than suitable for daily driver duty. I used to own just one car that that was 1996 355.... It was my only transporation and it performed the duty of daily hack perfectly. I took it to grocery store, school, vacation, trash collector site, drive-tru fast food, movie...wherever I want to go really... I think driving it daily keeps it fit and problem-free...

 

If I didn't drive my Ferraris to pick up groceries and do errands, I'd never drive them at all!

I think the OP is really overly discounting the early cars. A 250GTE is a fine daily driver, especially in comparison with other 1961 vintage cars, but maybe not up to modern standards. A 365/400/412 is a fine daily driver, in comparison with any car.

 

for me a supercar is to be driven as much as possible because if not then is like starting to read a book and never finishing it.

 

Warp speed to pick up milk would have the advantage that the milk would be unrefrigerated for the shortest time possible. Plus, it would probably take on some ethereal Ferrariness about it that would make it extra bad-ass on your cereal.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

just don't put the milk in the trunk of a mid-engined car, like, say, a Lotus Elise.

 

I wonder if the OP's ever sat in a Ferrari that's more than a year old...

 

Or in the vintage stuff from back in the early 2000s...

 

If I want a daily driver I buy a Porsche or BMW. Nothing to do with reliability or anything, I just want my Ferraris to be (and feel) special. I drive them very often but I see absolutely no reason to go shopping with them.

Personally, I hate the way Ferrari is going with the California and particularly the FF. It's becoming a regular car now. SUV and 4-door is next...????

Ok - that's a bit of hyperbole but you catch my drift.


Onno

 

The fact that you're calling these cars "much more reliable" when they're light-years more complicated than previous 2+2s (of which many are still running strong after 20+ years and 10s of thousands of miles) makes it hard for me to take you serious.

By what metric do you make your judgment? And what data do you have to illustrate your point? There aren't any 20+ year old Californias or FFs on the road, last I checked...

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I would drive mine daily if I could come up with a great way to tell my employees how I can offord a Ferrari and not pay them more. I pay them well now, but I'm sure someone would say something. So, no driving to work. I drive it everywhere else, but thats only 10 miles a week, including just a Sunday drive.
The other problem is the attention the car gets. I worry about being followed home and all that stuff. I live in a nice neighborhood but there is a good deal of low end apartments near, because of this we have car break ins and petty stuff like that starting to occure. Cops have been catching thieves so far and their all from the nearby apartments.
I put up cameras, lots of lights and security system. Also conceal and carry permit.
If anyone has solutions for my two problems I'd love to drive mine daily.

 

I met a Ferrari owner with 3 Ferraris, 16M, 458 and a 360. His 16M: 1900mi. 458: 300 mi. 360:7000+. He obviously loves to drive his 360, though his 16M and 458 are newer.

 

i'm loving the lower maintenance costs, but wish they would make the cars so usable. seeing so many ferrari's everyday makes it less of an event to witness one on the road. i love porsches, but never care much when i see them now because there's some variant of one on every street corner or parking lot

 

The F1 shifter opened the doors to a wide number of first time Ferrari owners. The F1, a clever thing on the track and for the Starbucks and shopping malls weekend warriors.

 

I think that the bigger change has been in the drivers not the cars.
It's much less of a stretch to see a modern Ferrari as a DD than some of the Italian and British sports cars of the fifties and sixties that we drove twelve months a year.