coppins999
New member
Hello everyone, my first post here, so please bear with me and I will try and avoid this being too much of a rant.
Like I am sure a lot of owners here, owning a Ferrari is something of a childhood dream. I am now in the fortunate position where I can just about afford one albeit it may only be for a few years. My budget is up to £75k and probably more importantly my allowance for depreciation, services and repairs Im hoping to be less than £20k. As such having done far too much research online I am considering buying either a 360 manual or a F430 F1 gearbox.
However, now comes the difficulty - car dealers. Obviously at my budget I’m not going to be able to afford buying from main dealers and they rarely have the 360 / F430 anyway. But all the dealers I’ve been to just behave so rudely. They seem to take some form of pleasure in making you jump through hoops for their entertainment firstly just to see the cars, and test drives seem to be an impossibility. The general attitude has been that I have to commit to buying the car and Then they will maybe allow me to drive the car.
Now I fully understand the need to weed out joyriders, but I’m in my 50’s, I know the cars I’m looking at and yet am made to feel like I’m a spotty teenager being rejected by the bouncer at the night club. So my serious question for the collective is how do you know which car is right for you (both in terms of model and specific car) if this is how dealers behave? In the past I have just known when I got the “feeling” for a car, often buying cars that weren’t on paper what I thought would be the best. I really would welcome suggestions as to what to do.
Like I am sure a lot of owners here, owning a Ferrari is something of a childhood dream. I am now in the fortunate position where I can just about afford one albeit it may only be for a few years. My budget is up to £75k and probably more importantly my allowance for depreciation, services and repairs Im hoping to be less than £20k. As such having done far too much research online I am considering buying either a 360 manual or a F430 F1 gearbox.
However, now comes the difficulty - car dealers. Obviously at my budget I’m not going to be able to afford buying from main dealers and they rarely have the 360 / F430 anyway. But all the dealers I’ve been to just behave so rudely. They seem to take some form of pleasure in making you jump through hoops for their entertainment firstly just to see the cars, and test drives seem to be an impossibility. The general attitude has been that I have to commit to buying the car and Then they will maybe allow me to drive the car.
Now I fully understand the need to weed out joyriders, but I’m in my 50’s, I know the cars I’m looking at and yet am made to feel like I’m a spotty teenager being rejected by the bouncer at the night club. So my serious question for the collective is how do you know which car is right for you (both in terms of model and specific car) if this is how dealers behave? In the past I have just known when I got the “feeling” for a car, often buying cars that weren’t on paper what I thought would be the best. I really would welcome suggestions as to what to do.