[DeTomaso] Ferrari 360 maintenance costs-- NPC

[boyd casey]

The 4.0 liter V-8 used in the 840 is the same engine used in the 740 and 540
and was produced in large numbers and is readily available at a fairly
reasonable cost. There is a Pantera that has one of these 4.0 V-8's. I don't
know what other modifications have been made by it's owner but it runs and
sounds great. You can see it on you tube. They have video of it dusting a
Ferrari on an auto cross  course
Boyd

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:51 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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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