Do Drive Them...

Don't worry Dale, you will get your 599 way before I get my F40 ...

Pete

 

+1

Totally agree. Had money been any issue for the original buyer, he wouldn't have
done that. Obviously it didn't. There really ARE people out there that don't think
much about that level of spending - it ain't no thing.

Jedi

 

Totally agree with Jerry, Brian and Jedi!

 

I look at it from a different angle. I'm thankful for those who pay top dollar, buy at any cost and take the big hit. If there was no one like that Ferrari would have a hard time selling cars. I was able to buy a 23 year old Ferrari with below 50K miles in original good maintained condition for below $30K. I'm really enjoying it thanks to those who came before me. I hope each of them was able to move up or get the newest greatest thing. I'll be waiting. Someday I'll be looking for a sub $50K 430 manual. Just waiting, have lots of time. I also have my eyes on the 550 but it's price may get to $50K before I can.

 

I never NEVER thought of it in those terms, but if it ever had a chastity belt, I'd say the rain, snow and 1K track miles took care of it long ago!

Dave

 

The problem is simple supply and demand. When you want to buy a 458, you need to find someone to buy your 430. The 360 or 355 owner buys it and they need to sell. The problem is the pool of viable owners is limited and every year of 5000 new Ferrari's increases the supply for a limited demand. $110-120k for your car. $100k if you want to move it quick. Sorry to break the news. Been watching that market, but I am pretty set on a 360 spider.

Ed

 

Well said.

 

i love those kind of people....i have bought all my cars from these guys who graciously took the first mega depreciation hit, serviced the car perfectly, washed it, and never or hardly ever drove it.

i bought my 456 for 1/3rd of the original price paid, and it had 1000 miles on it.
i bought my 512tr for 1/4th of the original price paid, and it had 10k miles on it.
i bought my 360cs for 1/2 of the original price and it had 12k miles on it.

the only exception is that i bought my 512bbi probably for the same price as when new, with 12k miles on it....but thats another story.

 

There's a guy in my building who has a bunch of exotic cars. He's a really nice guy, very well off, and a huge car enthusiast. I had a chance to talk to him once while he was waiting for one of his cars to be brought up, and he's a legit driver. He doesn't own multiple properties, isn't into jets, so he owns a bunch of different amazing cars. His 458 Italia has something like 1k miles on it when I checked it out one time and he's had it almost a year, he has a Scuderia he keeps at the track, an LP640, and probably more that I haven't seen, but the car he drives the most is his Bugatti Veyron which has well over 20k miles on it He claims it's a smoother ride than the other cars, but with all the speed he could want. It's not that these owners don't drive their cars, it's that typical owners who spend $200k over MSRP have quite a number of cars. I think Ferrari released a statistic that the average Ferrari owner owns 5 cars (can't remember if that's in addition to the Ferrari or including).

 

Lovely!

 

I got my little 308 for less than 1/2 of the original cost in the summer of 2009. I feel certain that it sold for a LOT more back in the boom days of the 1980s/early 1990s although I dont have the records to prove it.

I have had it about 18 months and put almost 4k miles on it. It had more than 63k miles when I got it. I plan to drive it for a LOT of years and put a LOT more miles on it. I hope to one day pass it on to my kids and hope that they take care of it and put MORE miles on it.

I count the SMILES per miles rather than the $ per mile.


PDG

 

My 1995 F355 Spider had 124 miles when I bought it, 11 months ago. Now it has about 2,600 miles.

I don't know how much the previous owner's heirs got for it when they sold it to the dealer, but adjusted for inflation, the cost per mile has got to be astronomical.

Now, I did pay a premium for it, so unless I keep it for a few more years and drive it quite a bit, my cost per mile will be pretty high as well. Looking forward to spring weather.

 

I drive when I want and don't worry about the mileage.