How Often Do Older Ferraris Need To Be Driven?

Exactly on point paul. People don't have any say in what people do with their money. If a person wants to spend $500k and not drive a single mile, thats ok, there is no rule these cars have to be driven. Lots of people buy cars and tuck them away bc they just love to look at them like artwork, many sculptures are worth millions and these cars are beautiful enough to merit that. With that said, I am not that guy my SLR has 10k miles on it and my 575 has 20k miles on it, they're not collector pieces. Rare cars, yes, but collector pieces no. Did I buy them for the financial aspect? Yes/No. I paid $185k for the SLR 3 years and its probably appreciated since then but at the same time I probably spent $50k servicing the car so overall my experience has been probably a net of $0 if I were to sell the car today. Is that a big thing for me? Sure it is bc I don't want to lose $100k just to have a new car for a few thousand miles, other guys on this site say they don't care about miles or money but I won't lie, I do. I do alot. So for me the 2 cars I bought, yes I bought them bc I love cars but at the same time I bought them bc Im hoping to not only not lose a fortune on them, but to hopefully hold steady in the meantime and potentially see some appreciation over a decade. I could have just bought a new aventador for the same money and lost $300k over a decade, but thats just not me.

With that said, most of these exotic cars have low miles bc most owners have multiple cars and probably a demanding job, a family, etc. I am married with no kids, but I do work alot, and in my free time I spend it with my wife and our friends. Most people get most of their driving on a commute to work/dinner/etc, but I walk 2 blocks to work and if any of you have been to south beach, its a 30 block enclave from 1st st to around 30th or so, most people here just walk everywhere bc 1) its easier to do than $40-$100 valet parking for an exotic and 2) the weather is frankly perfect 95% of the time. So while most exotic car owners work up there car driving to dinner a couple nights a week, or maybe driving it to the office I have to literally go out of my way so to speak to just "drive". Don't get me wrong I absolutely love love love driving but when you live in a major metropolitan city pretty much anytime you get on the road after 8 am and before say midnight, you're going to basically be just sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. That's not what the 575 nor the SLR was designed for. So like I said, when Im up super early and have nothing to do I take the cars for a quick, scenic spin along the water on a famous long bridge( the macarthur causeway) and I return to my condo. Believe me I would love to be one of those guys who has a 30 mile commute each way but I just don't.

So all I was simply asking was, what is enough "driving". Obviously many cars go years with no mileage, there's a testarossa for sale on ebay with 500 miles over 30 years. I just know that with any machine, if you don't use it, there will be issues and I learned alot that your average car owner would not know. I thought as long as the car warms up for 5-6 minutes and then I take it for a spin, run it through the gears and come home that would be ok. Others chimed in and told me why thats wrong. I now learned something new. I think Fchat is a cool place, but lots of judgmental people telling others what to do with their cars is just silly. People can't make snarky comments and not expect people to fire back.

 

And thats exactly all I was asking in my original post before everyone interjected with their snarky opinions......