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If you keep it as long as the GS it won't matter.... enjoy it ffs!I think i’ll leave this here. I’m off to start a thread about someone else’s car being worth f**k all in 6 months time.
If you keep it as long as the GS it won't matter.... enjoy it ffs!I think i’ll leave this here. I’m off to start a thread about someone else’s car being worth f**k all in 6 months time.
Had dinner the other day with a mate who had just picked up his new 488 - says will keep it forever!Blimey. If I ever had a car I lost 5k on over 4 years I would be delighted. As bob will tell you though. I am lucky to keep them 6 months.
Will believe it when I see it! Average length of Ferrari ownership is 6-9 months the main dealers tell me. I didn’t believe it until I spent 6 in a Cali.. then 5 in a 458. Not a hint of being tempted by a 488 (turbo though)Had dinner the other day with a mate who had just picked up his new 488 - says will keep it forever!
Magpies. Hence why product life cycles for supercars are getting shorter and shorter.Why do owners only keep them such a short time?
Bobs right. They see something more shiny / powerful/ newer/perceptually more desirable and move on. I was guilty. I am now thinking about the Cali T. I realised - as I think Phil alluded to on another thread) that you can rarely make the most of the 458 unless you are at silverstone or pulling up outside a casino in Monte Carlo. Unfortunately I don’t spend much time doing either of that- so a run out with my mates or wife and daughter is best serviced in a convertible 4 seater which will ‘only’ manage 3.7 to 60Magpies. Hence why product life cycles for supercars are getting shorter and shorter.
Why do owners only keep them such a short time?
Thats a good point.Ferrari cotton onto it though - although you can flip them like this, the main dealers say if they find out they won't let you buy another. The more I get to know the dealerships, the more BS this sounds like! They just don't like the idea of buyers getting good VFM. The portofino is being quoted as a 18 month wait from deposits now to most buyers so I am sure that would still work.Not sure ... my friend has had his 2009 gts since new and his 458 Italia.
There used to be a trick where you line up multiple Ferrari purchases with timed delivery and due to the long waiting list etc you could flip the car for the same price after say 9 months just before you take delivery of the next new one and basically keep driving them for free. Not sure if it still works
Why do owners only keep them such a short time?
Case in point of short ownership, take this Stradale, 5 years old, 8 owners. Clearly owned by people who didn't realise the costs of ownership, couldn't live with it or have a short attention span. Only £49,999
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201809030095278
Speaking to Amari now.
It's had £13k spent on it in under a year, new Carbon ceramics,, pads, f1 system.... too cheap and old for them to retail hence priced to sell. Dilemma!!!