Is the mileage penalty on 430s too severe??

SS2012 · Oct 6, 2009

I am going to replace the popular phrase -

"You can have your cake and eat it, too"

with -

"You can have your Ferrari and Drive it, too"

scycle2020 · Oct 6, 2009

Bullfighter said: ↑

Time will tell. Pretty much any new car is reliable for 3-4 years.

For example, I don't think the potentially catastrophic 360 varietor issue came out while the car was 3 years young (?), and the cheap-o interior bits hadn't turned to goo.

Exactly.

As I read all these posts, I can't think of many "Announcing my new Ferrari" threads where the guy posting about his new toy doesn't make a big deal about the car they bought having "only x original miles on it" -- as opposed to unoriginal miles. I guess it's because a worn out Ferrari engine is financial armageddon? Couldn't you completely rebuild an engine for the price differential between a 50,000-mile 360 and a 5,000-mile 360?

I guess everyone in this thread is an exception to the rule, but from where I sit the low-mileage obsession has never been stronger for common, regular production Ferraris. It has little or nothing to do with reliability. Worse, the modern Ford GT seems to stop running at 300 miles -- tons of them change hands with triple-digit odometers. Maybe we taught them well.
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I totally disagree that any new car is reliable for 3-4 years......several current makes of cars have had a significant number defects even in the first year of ownership...certainly with an exotic, high tech sports car the chances of something going wrong do increase with time and mileage....also, I have heard of the 355 interior turning to goo in the heat, but not from any 360s....

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