Survey: your next Ferrari

sorry meant for modern cars but i reread and see you have a 2010+

 

I'm pretty sure Ferrari doesn't make cars for most of us here anymore. And I can't blame them. Gotta go where the money and market is. Enzo's cars were really mostly GT's for the wealthy and famous. It wasn't until the Dino and 308 that they became more common and "affordable" 2 seat sports cars as part of their main business. Now they are making $500K SUV's and hybrids. I bet the average current out the door price for them per car is $400K across the line.

Lambo has taken another route of just becoming as outrageous and showy as they can. If you want that, its easy to get.

There's a lot of great cars of all kinds of era where you can spend that or less. If you want a great SUV by a Merc or a Caddy.

We are dinosaurs. And we look up into the heavens every night and hope we don't see a meteor coming our way -- but we know its out there.

 

I just purchased my “next” - and probably last - F car. It’s old, simple, and raw, just like me. The new models are amazing, but I’m past the point of needing maximum velocity in my sports cars; that’s what my track car is for. Today I value maximum engagement and enjoyment in my road toys with the fewest number of computers and driver aids between me and the road.
- Dave

 

I just bought my next Ferrari, a gated 360 spider. It shifts so easily and revs so nice with a great sound. The car is gorgeous, beautiful lines. It is an addition to our scud. For our price point we have the best of both worlds.

 

lol, it is?? Don't think so. I mean, it's cute but certainly not 'acclaimed'...

In my opinion, the good Ferraris are: (other than the crazy expensive classics like a 250 GTO etc and the hypercars)
F430
458 Speciale Aperta (on the too expensive, rich people only side though)
Pista
F8
F12
812
and maybe the SF90 and Purosangue
...... The rest are just not good looking or too old and basic

 

My next not any time soon will be a front engine V12 so I have collected my favorite engine/cylinder combinations, I6, V8, V10, V12. My F430 gets the most mileage over my daily drivers.

Elwood: We're on a mission from God (to reach 100K miles).

 

Sure Nicola: 308 GTB Dry Sump.

Purosangue? Hahahahahahahahaha

 

Maybe a Cali just for fun.

 

I have a 355. My next one (if there is one) would be older than that.

 

I guess it’s just personal preference; an 80s-90s mid-engine V8 Ferrari ticks a lot of boxes for me, while nothing newer than a 360 really floats my boat (ok, except perhaps a 458 ).

Overall, I like the idea of a small, analog, manual transmission Ferrari with beautiful lines penned by Pininfarina. The 328 was a new car when I really got into Ferraris as a kid, and I still love them. I’d rather stare at one 308/328 than a parking lot full of F8s, 296s or 812s. Nothing wrong with those cars, and for sure there’s people that love them, but for me they’re too big, too complicated, too expensive to purchase, and the performance is so extraordinary as to be meaningless to me on a practical level, meaning for street driving…just not what I’m looking for.

 

Nearly every Ferrari owner I know personally that’s more an aficionado, particularly guys who own several cars, are buying older cars to add to their garages and not newer ones. I do know a couple of athletes who buy only new but they’re more interested in instagram brand name flash than the cars themselves. I guess it comes down to what you seek.

As an aside, it seems to me that if one lives in a major city where the new Ferraris are “everywhere”, they might want to stand out with a classic not everyone can stroll into a local dealer and lease/finance a new car just to see it on every other street corner. But again, it depends what a person is buying the car for in the first place.

 

Hope all is well …. Still have your GT3 ?

MDS

 

I’m in Naples, FL, for ~ 3 weeks - watching Ferrari’s & McLarens idle by on 5th Avenue doesn’t look like fun.

Personally my first would be a F12 or 812 ( in white ).

MDS

 

See also, "The Roger Scene"

 

Easy for most of us…..cars are going in the wrong direction. They took away manual transmissions and replaced them with 48” screens. They are taking away great sounding V8s, V10s, and V12s and replacing them with electric garbage with poor reliability and unknown replacement costs. They are taking away cars that require skill to drive and replacing them with “safety” crap. They are taking away great designs and replacing them with aero design language that makes them all look similar.

Worst of all, they are building cars that are fast, but sterile and unconnected to the world around us

 

There's a natural slump in the depreciation curve that keeps the cars about 20 years old relatively affordable as entry cars. So that pushes things along; when I bought my first Ferrari, it was 15 years old and "the cheap one." Now it's a classic and rising in value. So I could get a newer car for a lower price -- if it's about 15 years old.

The other part is that technology is ruining the future value of vehicles. My other Ferrari is a California T, and that's just about as far as I personally want to go with technology. Hybrid/electric/all computer drivetrains are just frightening. So if I buy something else, it will be older than a California, probably a 360 or 430.