[DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC

Garth Rodericks garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 8 16:25:36 EST 2010


Agreed. The BMW 840 is already on the list. Remarkable how inexpensively those can be had for now.




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From: "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: garth_rodericks at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com; mbefthomas at comcast.net
Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 12:51:23 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC


In a message dated 2/8/10 12:19:55 PM, garth_rodericks at yahoo.com writes:



I have oft considered the Ferarri 550 as a nice 'someday' car - a daily-driver-type Ferrari that would be a luxurious
>>GT I could someday drive to work or take my wife out to dinner in without looking like a 'michael shumaker
>>wannabe racer' or a pretentious snob. My plan involved waiting as the prices continue to drop until they become
>>comparable to a new 5-series BMW.
>
>>But then I learned that a Ferrari is like a sail boat - a hole in the water to throw money, except it's in the garage
>>instead! No longer on my list of 'someday' cars...
>http://www.sportscarmarket.com/articles/archives/939
>

The perfect car to fulfill this mission would be BMW's direct competitor to the 550 Marenello--the BMW 850.   It was always an expensive car when new (over $100K), and had all of the same general attributes as the 550, including a silky V12 engine.   But they have depreciated like bricks and have now bottomed out, so that you can easily buy one for 10% of the original price.   They are fast, stylish, comfortable, and unusual enough to be considered quasi-exotic.   Running costs will be expensive but nowhere near that of the Ferrari, plus they are built with BMW's legendary quality and reliability, something the Italians have aspired to but never really reached.

http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/1991-to-1997-bmw-8-series.htm

And if you could live without the V12, the 840 is the same car with a much more economical (from a maintenance perspective) V8 that makes almost as much power.

Mike


      


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