I have a friend who has a modena spyder, and OMG the horror! Poor guy. (not sure calling a Ferrari owner 'poor' is right...but you know what I mean).TimDogg wrote:That's great sakimano, I agree about keeping it slower that the F430. It does weigh an absolute ton too. I think I might grow into one but no time soon - maybe I'm not quite ready for a GT yet. My mate just bought a 360 Modena which I think will prove costly and I'm not yet into that league and not a huge Ferrari fan (California, 599 and 458 aside).
I would have thought the 4.7 (or 'S') would have solved the power issues - I had a 3.0 V6 Ford Mondeo (ST220) that always sounded like it should be going faster than it sounded, lovely car though, just too slow.
I guess I'm struggling to step out of the RS4 - I think it would have to be a GTR or a CL63 AMG Black Series but both have huge running costs and the RS4's lack of these make it still so appealing.
He's up to about $40,000 in repairs in 2 years. I don't know if he got screwed or is just unlucky...but this is NUTS. He has driven maybe 4000 miles. So...$10/mile
When he was on the highway doing 100 mph last summer, he was spending 17 cents per second!
