Personally, regardless of this issue, I think Keith Martin is full of it and a totally self promoting slimeballer.

In regards to this report specifically, I have owned 6 Fcars, none bought new, and have had very few problems and very little expense other than maintanance. If you have a good independant(Hi Brian Crall) who is fair, service costs are about 1/2 the big dealer prices.
In fact, over the last say 3 years, I have had more mechanical issues with my porsches than the ferraris. This may not be fair as the pcars are modified more, but the scare tactic of KM is just a way to sell himself imo.

 

Article is BS.
Yes Older Ferraris are more expensive to maintain than the ones made from 1999 (F360) and up but that article is def. bs. $125 to replace license plate thingy? Outtttttaaaa here!
My monkey could do the same job for a $.10 cents banana.


damn u just broke my heart. My favorite car is this expensive to maintain?

 

You guys ever price out a clutch job on a carrera GT...

 

Humm...

I'm still picking one up (550) in Nov, I talked to my Future Ferrari Tech.
and the price of call for service was 1/2 the cost of the dealer. Nope
the article did NOT change my mind! "Go Forth With Great Vigor"

ed

 

It's really not bad at all. The Major service minus belts at an authorized dealer for our 550 was ~800 (changed ALL fluids). With belts and EVERYTHING else it MIGHT be 3k.

 

chains = the ****

 

Belts = $$$