Oh Ya that car was really comfortable and the 2 tone interior was beautiful. plus the flat black accents made that car so wicked looking. it was also nice to meet you too. Matt
That was my buddy Dougie. We ended up driving up to the Puma store at Tualip. They have a bunch of Ferrari clothes in stock right now. Rain coat is $159 less 30%...it is the team replica one...they also have team short sleeve button down shirts, some plain red polos, and lot's of the Panamerica T-shirts.
Well, I'm not a gambler, so no problem for me...and we didn't really save anything, since we didn't end up buying anything. Last thing I need is more Ferrari clothes!
Saw beautiful metallic burgundy Maserati coupe in Bank of America/Hyatt building parking lot d/t Bellevue, freshly detailed, on Friday (16th).
Mystery 360 and 430 spyder heading westbound 90 early morning hours. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Yesterday, 7:15 PM.. Yellow 360 Modena, Northbound at I-405 and 8th. Yesterday, 12:15 PM.. Argento/Azzuro(?) Maser QP at Costco Home in Kirkland.
I saw a beautiful F430 coupe in downtown Bellevue today. I'm glad it was a fine day to have the windows down. I heard it a block away and started looking for it. Fine machine. Philip
yellow 360 (maybe black wheels?) heading southbound I-5 around 45th st. exit yesterday early afternoon...
It looks like it's been raining........what jokers drive there brand new 430 spider in the rain. Now, if they have a back up car, such as a benz, that would seem reasonable.
If you go to europe these cars are driven all the time in all different kinds of weather...take for example england, it rains a lot..not as much as people give it credit for, but its rains more then some places. People that own exotics may they be TVR to Ferrari/Lamborghini to Pagani's they are all driven when it rains. It does nothing to them other then getting a bit wet. If i had one of these cars I would drive them in all weather expect snow/hail. They are meant to be driven.
This is, in general, true... but the mind set is a bit different in the UK. If you take a large city like London, a single guy with a nice sports car probably has just that one car. Property is ridiculously expensive, and property with a garage is astronomically so. Add in an average tax rate of 45%+ for a decent salary, high costs for insurance and petrol/gas, and it very quickly gets to be too expensive to operate more than one vehicle. The incidence of "Ferrari as daily-driver" is therefore much higher in the UK. New Ferraris also in the UK tend to depreciate just like any other car, not quite as fast in depreciation, but depreciate all the same. Who wants to let a depreciating asset go to waste ? In the US it's a bit of a catch-22 situation -- a "high-mileage" F-car is one with 5,000miles/year or more (with a typical mileage of 2,000/yr). People therefore get overly concerned with the impact of driving the car on its value. In Europe, an extremely low-mileage 2002 car doesn't cost *that* much more than an average mileage 2002 car -- most of the depreciation of the car is a factor of age, not mileage. That makes the ownership cost a basically fixed cost compared to the high-cost per mile in the US. It's not that Americans don't *want* to drive more than their European counterparts, it's just that they don't like paying through the nose to do it ;-)
