Recent content by barbuckle

Does anyone own a Sebring blue 4200 cambiocorsa which is missing a spare key?

I suppose I am hoping the owner is on this forum - and can identify themselves and the car...

Looking for your thoughts on this... Clearing a drawer the other day and I find the spare key to my old 4200 CC. I note from online MOT check the car has a recent MOT. How might I (safely) get the key back to current owner?

Sounds like my old GS... great car which I bought slightly used and ran for seven years. Was traded for a Ferrari with an unsolvable electrical gremlin and hence traded again for a V12 Vantage... still running that one.

Vantage V12S the sales video is still on Youtube http://youtu.be/182z4uPdIg4 3K miles this year - fantastic!

For those who asked about my trade-in car I see it is back on the market: http://www.parkwayspecialistcars.co.uk/stocklist/maserati-gransport-42-2dr/

Comments are spot-on. The 599 is very large whereas the Vantage is much closer to Gransport in size and feels much more usable on the road. Also true about the engine sound/feel ... the 599 sounded angry, revs higher. The Vantage is somehow more refined and "sweeter" (if that makes sense?) The...

Didn't want to leave this thread on a sour note... so I went out and found another one (V12 that is) and thought I would tempt fate by admitting it here.

I suppose the security at the plant is not especially tight... PPi definitely advised. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32818139

Yes surprising - but it appears to me that when a marque achieves a certain market value it stops being treated like a car and starts being treated like an investment. The attitude in the sales teams is shockingly arrogant and the competence of the servicing teams highly questionable. Bear in...

I think the dealers have lost the plot - they don't appear to "know" cars anymore... they are just bundles of cash to them. The 599 market has gone up a lot this year (a manual car sold for a mad price like £450K) and I feel the dealer is more than happy to turn this car around for...

I agreed to allow them time to try and diagnose and cure airbag issue. They had already offered to reverse deal before that so they held the Gransport pending resolution (which never came, and then I noticed the dodgy repair!)

Just in case we all thought this story has ended happily... it will when the Gransport is back with me on Monday! It went something like this - the 599 had an intermittent airbag warning light issue. But I discovered (Ferrari owners web site actually useful) that the issue had been unsolved...

Well in fact only one fuel stop needed - you can definitely get 300 miles+ range from a tank... but then the tank has been sized accordingly (think it is 23 gallons/105 l).

If anyone is interested in the GS it might be worth approaching Meridien now - but they suggested that at 32K miles it would probably be sold through the trade!