Hmm... I,m getting a 575M

Ok.... I,m not the biggest sportscar enthusiast in the world, but I think its great fun to drive a good car. So... all of the sudden I,m beein offered a 2003 575M with GTC handling package (gearbox and susp) as payment.
The car was supposed to be bougth for approx Euro 100.000 from an authorized reseller.

A few question to this forum wich I hope someone finds the time to answer.

The car is supposed to be in mint condition, and the milage is 30k km.
Its grey with burgundy interior.

Is this a good Ferrari model?
Is this model/year worth Euro 100k?
Is is difficult to sell on later ?
Do they drop rapidly in price?
Is the service/maintenace extremely expensive (France/Italy/Switserland)?

I,ve had a few Porsches, and thougth they where good fun, but never had anything wild like this. Not even close........

Was thinking of having it for maybe a year and then sell it on.

Anything special I should be aware of ?
I know the seller personally, and I know he looks after his things.

Any feedback will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Its registred in 2003. It comes with something he calls GTC pakcage.
The seller is a good friend and he have had it for 12 months.
Its on Swiss numberplates (I,m aware of the VAT issue)
Price CHF 160k.... (Should be approx Euro 100k I think)

 

I shure do know him weel, but I,ve never seen the car. He have been living/working 2400 km from where I used to live. I,ll see it first time next week. The only think that may be fishy here is the year 2003 vs 2004.
I may have missunderstood reg.date vs model... dont know yet.
Know more tomorrow.

 

Whow... that was a warm welcome shackman.
You sound like a suspious man, but I guess you have your reasons.... what ever they may be.


Looking at his message again....
"It has a lot of the GTC handling package"
Further down he writes..... gearbox and suspension.

Dont know if when or how it was retrofitted yet.

From what I understand the price is ok.
Thanks to the forum.

 

I know by friday 27 jan.

He have been offered CHF 160 by the Swiss Ferraridealer.
This is approx Euro 106.000

But I may end up "paying" somewhat more than that, otherwise he would probably just hand it over to the dealer and get the money directly.

I suspect to see the price in the 110-115k area. I know by friday 27.

 

I bougth it.
Its registred in july 2002
It has the handling package installed afterwards. Dont kow when yet. Prob in 2004.
The milage is 34.000 km
It also comes with a "Ferrari GPS"
Its beautyfull!
I paid Euro 105.000 (inc 1 year insuance)
Grey with red interior

Hope I didnt pay to much, but if I did... so what. I love it!

 

Well, I,ve only been a Ferrri-owner for 24 hours, and I didnt know that much in the first place, but will be spending a lot of time over the next weeks to read and learn nore about the car.

The GPS..... it actually says Ferrari.
When I turn it on, the Ferrari logo comes up in the display.

This probably means it was sold with the car when it was new, but I,m pretty shure its made by someone else than Ferrari. Just as the BMW Navi-system says BMW but is made by Garmin.

Anyway, its there and it worked great. Voice-guiding and all
Its a small combo device. Radio/CD/GPS. No real graphical interface
Looks mostly like a radio-display.

 

Thanks for the kind welcome!
I will post the pix tomorrow. Belive it or not..... its snowing in Cote d'Azur!
I drove down from Geneve yesterday. 670 km. Great weather. Slept bad all nigth just waiting to get out of bed and in to the car again.... SNOW!

What a bummer!

It never snows in south of France.... except the day when I get my Ferrari.
I,ll post the "first day as a Ferrari-owner-pix" tomorrow.

Its a new world. Totally. Its great, but new!
The handling, the gear and how it reacts when I shift gears.
The AUTO-button (and the strange button underneith AUTO-button wich I dont know what is yet. Looks like a car that is sliding on wet tarmac or something). The fact that I have to use the brakes on hillstarts even when its in AUTO, the way it kind of stops between AUTO-shiftig. Always using handbrakes when parking.

There is a few anoying beeps when I start that I havent figured out what means yet, because the CHECK says OK. And there is a message on the display saying NO CAL....? Something about tires and callibartion I think. Previous owner said it was callbrated or something recently and he suspected that hte mechanic didt put the sencor back on correctly or something... hmm.

The previous owner said that I should let the gas-pedal up when shifting...
feels better that way to.

Got to start reading tha manuals.

Again, thanks for the welcome and I,ll post the pix tomorrow!

 

A pix from the day I got it. Love it.
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Hi!

Here some pix of the interios and the "Ferrari" GPS as well..
I belive what I have is th F1 version of the 575M
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