[s-cars] NAC: $100k wetdream purchase

[Bruce Mendel]

no, i do mean it! i owned a 2000 360 F1 for a year (sniff), before my 
alleged paper wealth evaporated.

I put 6K miles on it. I never visited a ferrari dealer for 
service.....ever....other than routine oil change stuff. it never had a 
single failure, and was tight as a drum in spite of me beating on it 
ferociously!

maybe he got a lemon? granted, they're mostly hand-built, so there is a lot 
of variability from car to car i'll bet.

B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theodore Chen" <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
To: "Bruce Mendel" <brucem105 at comcast.net>; "Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK)" 
<WQQ2PXK at ups.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: $100k wetdream purchase


>
> --- Bruce Mendel <brucem105 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> He wants to wait for a Ferrari? For what? The car to buy, in my humble
>> opinion, is a used 360 Modena F1.
>>
>> The performance, the sound, the feel, the look, and even more impressive,
>> the comfort and reliability, are unmatched. And ones is great shape with
>> low-ish miles are in the $125K range.
>
> reliability?  you must be kidding.  more reliable than previous ferraris,
> sure.
>
> but the CFO at my last company had a 360 modena, and it never went more
> than 2 weeks without needing to be fixed.  maybe you meant unmatched among
> supercars for unreliability.  :)  and service needs are high.  somebody
> with an F355 had to replace the timing chain and other valvetrain parts
> because the timing was several degrees off at 8k miles.
>
> i don't have that kind of time or patience, even if i had that kind of
> money to spend on cars.  unless i'm paying somebody to do my chores and
> look after my cars, i'd rather buy a 911 GT2, which will be FAR more 
> reliable.
>
> -teddy
>
>
>
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