Ferrari 458 Yearly Mileage

Don't know about others but I've taken her around the corners quite a bit: Just above 13,000 kms since delivery in march 2012 (she's is in hiatus because of the weather right now).

No probs up to now (knock on wood) except for known electronic gremlins twice which disappeared after a restart.

My motto: Use it, but don't break it.

 

They are still garage queens. The major contributing factor is that ferrari owners also generally own a few other vehicles and as such hesitate to take the ferrari out daily. The story would be different if one owned a ferrari and just one other vehicle, that being an ordinary and preferably beat up sedan/suv for times it is totally impractical to take the 458. Then the the F cars would be driven more.

 

I have just collected my13 458 Coupe and as soon as the snow here passes I intend to use it every day

 

The annual maintenance plan really has no impact. You need to do a yearly whether you use the car or not. It only saves about $1000 a year as the routine maintenance on the CA and 458 is really low -- about half of an F430 over 4 years.

The maintenance plan does not cover brakes, which would be the highest cost wearing parts of the car over a long period of time.

 

I've only got like 1400 miles on mine...totally retarded.
I plan to change that soon

 

I put about 5K miles a year.

 

About 4k on mine in a year.

 

I keep my 458 spider in Australia where I spend about 40% of my time - even given that I expect to do about 10,000km/year. I love to drive it - so I do. I don't understand the weekend car mentality at all - but that's just me - each to their own.

David

 

owning a new [high production] car as a garage queen is about the dumbest thing you can do. You're just making money for the next guy.

I drive mine about 5k/season, well under the warranty mileage so it makes no difference to me.

 

In the US, yes. In Europe, no.

I've driven mine a little under average for Europe, I would say. 6,000 miles in the first year. Less than I wanted to do.


Onno

 

Not a 458 owner here, but I collected my '12 California 1 year ago this coming Wednesday. I will turn 6000 miles as I drive her to meet the truck to take her for the 1 year service next week.

I drive mine a lot, have had three or four road trips with it (200-300 miles round trip) and nearly daily when weather is nice.

I expect I will have slightly less miles in the coming year, as we are moving to our new house in a month or so, and it is only 4-5 miles to my office one way vs 16-17 miles one way with my current house.

I am planning on driving her, enjoying her, and having a BLAST!

Supposedly, my order slot for the 458 Spider is coming up soon. I am not sure what I will do, but if I do "upgrade" I will drive her to.

My daily's have been a Cayenne Turbo and, now, a Panamera GTS.

J

 

7000 miles in 9 months. Not much now. Too much winter road crud out there.

 

I do about 3000 a year up here in the NE... it's very hard keeping it in the garage when the weather is nice out!!!

 

4200 a year without thinking about it - but I track it too.

 

This one got a good run! 27K miles...

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Mileage is completely region specific. Even with the extremely cheap gasoline + insurance in the US, there are very few places to fully utilize these cars on the street. Speed limits were set based on vehicles 40 years ago + and are now mostly used to extort drivers in order to support bloated police, judicial and bankrupt municipalities.

American Ferrari ownership consists of dressing up like a bright red clown to lounge around oversized mall parking lots staring at box stores and discussing vehicle depreciation rates. Complaining about the apparent lack of cup holders to accomodate the 1 gallon coffee mugs and NFL/NHL/NBA games are the topics. Total car useage per event 15 miles. Repeating this process about 80 times a year gives the car its annual useage.

In Europe even with 100-300% higher gas prices, owners tend to realize life is too short to worry about depreciation and generally do not take imposed speed limits seriously. Since prices are generally higher, Europeans expect maximum value and useage from their purchases. Events tend to be high speed highway runs, runs through twisty roads and visiting beutiful scenery. Total car useage per event 100miles+.

 

Thanks for posting this. Sorry to agree but I guess, there is quite some truth to it.

I can of course only speak for myself, but I really enjoy USING this kind of cars. It was the case with my previous 996 and 997 Turbos and it's once again with my current 458 Italia.

These cars are MEANT to be used in the most beautiful surroundings and put a FAT smile on your face driving them to build a great memory - that's what they were made for !

Have a look at the video my mate took from his 430 Scud when we (I was behind him so my plate wouldn't be spotted) were driving through Austria, in this case the Grossglockner-mountain, last year and you just MAY get the point:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn5Exd2ebgM]Ferrari 430 Scuderia - Großglockner Pass, Alpenstrasse (Berg runter) - YouTube[/ame]

Isn't this just beautiful ? Way better than "Cars & Coffee"...

Best,
Ulli

 

As most everyone on this forum knows, Europeans are much more evolved than Americans. They are better drivers, have a better sense of values, and they know it. Thanks for fully illustrating this point to the ignorant. Too bad they bathe only once a week and their dentition is deplorable.

 

But Americans have better genes and food (McD, BK, KFC, etc.).

BTW, my wife likes my taking a bath only once a week.
Makes the animal in her come out. Wouldn't wanna stop THAT !

Peaceful cheers to that big continent in the west,
Ulli