Has anyone ever seen a Ferrari with more than 30K on the clock ?
It struck me after looking thru the Sunday Times last week that all the Exotica have ridiculous low milelages.
I know some of these cars will have been stored and not used as intended but surely some of these cars will have been driven ?
1985 Testarossa 12'000 miles , 1975 Dino 22'000 miles .....
There must be a huge incentive to disconnect the speedo or clock a Exotic car because every thousand miles you do the resale value plummets.
Funny to think the most expensive end of the car market probably has the worst examples of clocking.
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AS far as I can tell, and this is a subject I've spent a lot of time on of late, they really are this low mileage.
I spoke to one guy who changed his Ferrari every year, and reckoned as long as he put less that 1500 miles on it in that year, he always got his money back, and sometimes a little more.
Reckoned he'd been doing this for ten years and only losing the interest on the money.
Also, the registers on these things are pretty thorough, you'd have to ramp up the mileage and clock it back down in between services to get away with it - and that assuming there's no electrical giveaway.
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I can't understand the point in buying a car like this only to keep it hidden under a sheet for 11 months 3 weeks a year. Life's to short, you could be hit by a bus...etc
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Remember this film, one guy's dad had a Ferrari 250 GTO californian and he knew exactly the mileage on the car down to the last tenth, because he never drove it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a waste. until Ferris bueller got hold of it .
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Had to get my specs, I read it as "Clucking and Ferraris" first time. Mind you, that's probably what happens when some of them are eventually attempted to be fired up.
As a hobby car I doubt if Celica Supra ever did 2k in the year with me - being a Toyota it always went impeccably, too - and I expect it's the same with Ferraris at least in respect of the first aspect.
Must turn over Toad, for the a/c.
And, speaking of Maranello, or possibly Murcielago, I must renew my sub to Littlewoods.
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When you think about the frequency of servicing, the speed everything wears out on a high performance car, especially when driven hard, not to mention the insurance, and the length of time you'd have to wait for a new panel if you dinged it, it's not surprising they don't get driven much. I don't suppose the engines last like a 1.9 XUD, though Ferraris and diesel BXs both pull well at 30 mph in top gear.
Chris
Not bad, eh, David?
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ChrisR,
Even I wouldn't have dared to slip the BX in here.
Note the clue in Mark's post...."and this is a subject I've spent a lot of time on of late".
Will he beat ladas to posting "I've just bought a F....... guys"?
David
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In fact can Mark get away with telling SWMBO "Now you've got the baby we really needed a more suitable vehicle than the Dodge Ram...have a look it's outside...the red one".
David
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Hardly any room for a nappy bag, David - let alone a safety seat!
A friend got a job in Zurich, with car for free. He went to the BM showroom, and ordered his Z3, only to get home, and be told by SWMBO that she was expecting, and he'd have to cancel...
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The trouble is all the later ones need a new timing belt every couple of years whatever mileage you do in them. But Autocar once ran a story of a bloke who used his Frazza as a daily driver and had clocked up more than 120k in it.
HJ
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The trouble is all the later ones need a new timing belt every couple of years whatever mileage you do in them. But Autocar once ran a story of a bloke who used his Frazza as a daily driver and had clocked up more than 120k in it.
HJ
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Can you remeber if the report was favourable or not ? I wish i'd seen that article.
Dont know about the rest of you but i would spend most of my time doing track days if i had the money to own a Ferrari ... Nurburgring/Spa/Imola/Monza... dream on .....
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Reminds me of Clarkson's comments about his 355GTS. Quote "You can't drive it anywhere because you get stopped constantly by the Police, and you can't leave it anywhere because people spit in it. It's USELESS".
Kind of sums it up, doesn't it. However, on the couple of occasions I've been lucky enough to drive one, I can understand their attraction.
Andy
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Something to be said for a Supra in a dull colour?
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Andy's right in principle (even though people's treatment of a "high envy factor" car are so wrong - an Australian engineer friend of mine had a 911 and a tweaked Fiat 500. He was always being stopped in the Porsche, even when he was in the clear, but was never stopped in the Fiat even when it was exceeding the NSW speed limit, because no believed it could go that fast!
Ronnie
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A 550 Maranello is the one and only car I've clocked 172 in (275kph) and also the only one I've changed up from 5th to 6th at 150. It's a different world. But, of course, it's a world proper racing drivers live in every day.
HJ
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My wife has a 1990 carrera II which had 59K on 3 years ago when we bought it. She's put on 25K because cars like that deserve to be driven daily.
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A few years ago I got overtaken very comprehensively by one of those 3 wheel invalid carriages.
I don't know what the guy had done to the engine, or what he'd substituted, but did that thing GO!
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Since Motability these blue invalid carriage things have virtually disappeared.
Saw one on Saturday as it happens first time for yonks.
But to follow on in type from HJ's post re a Ferrari being the only car he had ever changed up from 5th to 6th at......
A blue invalid carriage is the only thing I have ever driven where serious undergarment threatening incidents happened at 10 mph. The only more dangerous transport I have used was a horse and there hangs another story.........
Has anyone else had a go in one of these blue monsters?
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Yes!
Damon Hill did, said it was the most dangerous thing he had ever driven.
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