Ferrari FXX for sale. Anyone?

[Danny]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/51540.htm

I'd tap that.


Edit: Odd, the delivery date says late 2005, but the ad is still in the classifieds. Maybe no-one bought it. :/

 

[eliseracer]

That's the third I've seen for "sale" (what a scam) in the past little while.

I hope Ferrari is losing money on this "sale" (what a scam) because that arrogance deserves no more.

 

[Kylehnat]

I didn't think that FXX owners were allowed to sell it. And why would any of them want to? They certainly don't need the money.

 

[eliseracer]

You must sell the car back to the dealership. This means your sale price is at the mercy of Ferrari. Not to mention it is a 2million$ track toy, that requires you to pracctically do work for Ferrari. Now, why is the owner paying for this?

Oh that's right, Ferrari considers themselves so damn exclusive that they can chose who owns one and who doesn't.

 

[YSSMAN]

Hmmm, I think I'd want to have one, but then when it comes down to it, if I want a track car I would be more likely to spring for an Exige, 997 GT3, or Pontiac Solstice GXP. Its not worth the $2 Million +, as there are penty of other cars that you can still have fun in for 1% of the price.

 

[xcsti]

Hmmm, I think I'd want to have one, but then when it comes down to it, if I want a track car I would be more likely to spring for an Exige, 997 GT3, or Pontiac Solstice GXP. Its not worth the $2 Million +, as there are penty of other cars that you can still have fun in for 1% of the price.

For 2 mil I think you could guy a decent plot of land and get a couple strips of road paved to make a track.

 

[SouL]

For 2 mil I think you could guy a decent plot of land and get a couple strips of road paved to make a track.

Hahaha exactly! I'd always thought of buying the farm land surrounding my parent's home community, raze down all the crops and have a track built. A suzuka style track would rule. Figure of 8 cross over with a full and short track configuration.
Plus an open plot of asphalt for autocrossing.

 

[///M-Spec]

You must sell the car back to the dealership. This means your sale price is at the mercy of Ferrari.

Sounds like Ferrari does this to head off speculation and the subsequent astronomical prices cars like FXX command in the market. I remember the F40 was trading hands for crazy money in the late 80s --more than a million in at least one case.

Then the supercar bubble burst when the economy tanked and people who bought them as investments lost a ton of money. While I don't shed too many tears for very wealthy people losing a few bucks on an "investment" car, this sort of thing was generally bad for the supercar market overall.

So with the F50, Ferrari made it so that owners can only lease them. And they made sure owners drove actually drove the cars and not lock them in a safe, only to be started once a week and run idle for 20 minutes.

Sounds like they've done a similar thing with the FXX. I can't say I have a problem with this approach.

But I would have to agree with the others in the thread-- for 2 million bucks I could fund my own team for an entire GrandAm GT season. I'd much rather do that.


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[Small_Fryz]

but for people who buy these cars, money is no object. If you have to ask how much, its too much for you.