convertible ferrari - what to buy for 50 - 90k??

[MDahmen]

Bebs said:

MDahmen said:

Miss my old one so much, I am now back looking for a 355

Excellent - will be good to have you back in the fold

Cheers - it will be good to be back!
What mileage are you at nowadays?

[Jonty355]

A quick remap, decat and sports exhaust brings the performance up to that of a lot of modern supercars.

Except you'll be in something far better looking and far better sounding!

Not to mention it will never go down in value!

[Mario149]

Jonty355 said:

A quick remap, decat and sports exhaust brings the performance up to that of a lot of modern supercars.

Except you'll be in something far better looking and far better sounding!

Not to mention it will never go down in value!

Not sure how much you can in reality squeeze out of a 355 just from that....?

I *adore* 355s and do miss mine, but their one real flaw and the elephant in the room is that they don't feel like a 380bhp car, more like 320-340bhp IMO. So long as you can get your head around that you're laughing as in reality they need to be no faster for the road so who cares

Incidentally, anyone here been brave enough to put their 355 on a dyno that's known to be fairly realistic?

[Bebs]

MDahmen said:

Cheers - it will be good to be back!
What mileage are you at nowadays?

165,000 km - just back from a road trip to Denmark in it

[MDahmen]

impressive job - and still looks great. shows that they don't all fall apart.

I miss taking long trips in a proper car - drove from London to Salzburg in a BMW with automatic transmission - comfortable and good on diesel / read cheap, but rather boring

I viewed a 550 in Munich that has 266k km on the clock, one owner car - still looked lovely apart from some stone chips. Chickened out on buying it though.