That sound about right. I've had it down to 4-5MPG on track.
Beats me where it all goes...

looked at the first classified add and owner has spent £9k in the last year. You have to be seriously mad or very minted to buy a car for £30k, spend £Xk on insurance and then £9k to keep it on the road.

Would love to have one to drive, but with that kind of running cost I would carry on choosing the Porsche every time.

£570 at 25...did you GOCOMPARE..GOCOMPARE..

Seriously though...that is seriously cheap. Cost me £850 for my 911 turbo at 25, so assumed Ferrari would be much more.

Regardless - 25% of the value of the car per year to keep it on the road is still frightening, no matter how much you try and justify it

Expect single figure mpg in town and if giving it the beans on a track for example. You might as well be pouring super unleaded onto the tarmac. Conversely, I managed to get back from North Wales to London at Easter averaging 23mpg due to traffic being a little slow on the motorway. I've found that on the roads I enjoy driving it on (A roads around Wales during road trips for example), 19-20mpg is achieveable even when having quite a lot of fun as slower traffic puts paid to caning it the whole way.

All that said, if you're seriously concerned with fuel consumption, then it's not really the car for you. You have to accept that even driving normally it's still gonna cost you about 35ppm and you just have forget about it. I monitor my mpg as an academic exercise purely for interest. If you're doing 3k miles per year in it as a second car, it's "only" gonna be £1k per year on fuel. Whereas you could drop 5x that amount in servicing and repairs over the same year quite easily if you were unlucky!

18750 + belts for me next winter. Prices don't look too bad at the bottom end but I'm expecting to double the 'list' prices with extra bits and bobs that need doing.

edit: I'd also like to have my wheels refurbished over the winter I think. Not so easy to find someone willing to do it as they're magnesium.

Garnered from doing most of the spannering myself. :P

And contrary to popular belief, they're OK to work on if you have patience and even a tiny amount of mechanical ability. Some bits you can't beat specialist knowledge (I've had my fair share of help and guidance over the years) but they're reasonably well designed and engineered from a maintenance perspective.

Had a 355 as my daily runner for around a year.

Previously had a 328 and loved it. Cheap to run, quite economical, used everyday and no major problems. But i really wanted a 355 ever since It was launched, I was 13 then so these teenage wants have to be satisfied!

At first i found the 355 a bit of a let down as it lacked the low down torque id expected, you really had to give it some to get it going, the build quality was flimsy compared to my 328 (really!) and the niggles started as soon as I bought it.

After a while you get used to the ups and downs, worries and constant expenditure but when they run well the are amazing.

If you are considering using it as a daily car be warned, you will spend a lot as all the usual niggles will be amplified! Its exceptionally grumpy when cold so always requires a warming (plan ahead!), and the front nose will scuff on everything and anything.

Boot space is fine for basic day to day use, the targa top helps get the christmas tree home with ease.

Bought a 360 after that and ran it for two years/ 50,000mls as my daily runner, ill save that for the 360 buyers guide!

You will see in your owners manual whats involved in the various services. A large percentage of the services is just checking items. I have always said that a ferrari service is just a glorified oil change. One only pays the high price for the stamp in ya service books, that inturn increases the asking price of your car when its for sale. Anyone like myself that works on there own Ferraris will know were i am coming from
A cam belt service only costs me the price of the belt (£60) and tensioners. The job can take a day or even two depending on which method one uses.
But you know the more we talk on forums, the more the ferrari high priced service BS becomes apparent. One day every one will know and learn.

Wow, that seems a lot of money for some gaskets, belts, filters, hoses and tensioners!

And £110 for presumably 8 spark plugs? Are they made of platinum - oh yes, it seems they are! :laughs: But do they need to be or is it just a Ferrari tax?

yea thats the 30k service kit. For some bizarre reason alot of 355 owners are lead to believe, with a 30k service an engine needs to be removed for an over haul of all seals/gaskets. On any other low mailge car this idea would be laughed at
The 355 engine is just like any other engine. If gaskets arnt leaking dont change them, if they leak....change them. The engine does not have to be pulled to change an average gasket when one does leak.
Then you have the official ferrari book time, this tells all dealers how long a job should take....extortionate You should see how long it tells you to do a waterpump change!! Dealers will want to make a big meal out of this job as per Ferrari. But some specialists will do the job while the engine is in. Its a pig to do but its do able.
Its all a con to squeeze cash out of owners, its called a ferrari tax.
Its been shown also that a 30k belt and service job can cost far far more in the long run. Its been shown that most F355 fires occur very soon after the 30k mile service. Mainly because things have not been fitted back correctly, thus a fuel leak. Do research and you will see for your self.
I mean look at the current fuel distribution block recall. Fires can still potentially occur because the dealers have not fitted the re call parts correctly. LOL!! Its a joke IMO. http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2885...
I like to know my parts are fitted and are safe, because i do all my work my self and i have pride in working on my own Ferraris knowing its safe and reliable.