So I wandered into Meridien Modena yesterday....
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.... to see the CS they have there as my gf and I happened to be out for a spin in the New Forest.
B*gger. I now want a CS again. They just look awesome apart from anything else, not as pretty as a 355 but almost as good looking in a mean way. I've been umm-ing and ah-ing over selling my 355 in Nov after a final mini road trip and going for a CS early in the new year. Up til yesterday at about 3pm having got my 355 back from Autofficina with new HT leads and windscreen a few days before, I was pretty certain I'd just keep the 355. But now I'm wavering again
Keep the 355 and continue as is on a relatively depreciation proof car and just enjoy the fact I own a beautiful classic ferrari
Keep the 355 and buy something also quite depreciation proof like a 996 turbo to satisfy a new car fix
Sell the 355 and buy a CS and somehow persuade myself that having £90k+ tied up in a grossly impractical car in London is "normal"
Sell the 355 and buy a gallardo spider for £75k and lie to myself that it's finished depreciating
Those options are all pretty neck and neck at the mo. About a month ago I was erring towards a max budget of £130k but somehow that just doesn't sit right with me, so have discounted that.
Any other options I've missed?! Part of me wants to do the CS thing solely because otherwise I'll do something very sensible with the money and probably won't bring myself to release it for fun stuff in the future. My gf is no use as she's telling me to get the gallardo or CS....!
B*gger. I now want a CS again. They just look awesome apart from anything else, not as pretty as a 355 but almost as good looking in a mean way. I've been umm-ing and ah-ing over selling my 355 in Nov after a final mini road trip and going for a CS early in the new year. Up til yesterday at about 3pm having got my 355 back from Autofficina with new HT leads and windscreen a few days before, I was pretty certain I'd just keep the 355. But now I'm wavering again
Keep the 355 and continue as is on a relatively depreciation proof car and just enjoy the fact I own a beautiful classic ferrari
Keep the 355 and buy something also quite depreciation proof like a 996 turbo to satisfy a new car fix
Sell the 355 and buy a CS and somehow persuade myself that having £90k+ tied up in a grossly impractical car in London is "normal"
Sell the 355 and buy a gallardo spider for £75k and lie to myself that it's finished depreciating
Those options are all pretty neck and neck at the mo. About a month ago I was erring towards a max budget of £130k but somehow that just doesn't sit right with me, so have discounted that.
Any other options I've missed?! Part of me wants to do the CS thing solely because otherwise I'll do something very sensible with the money and probably won't bring myself to release it for fun stuff in the future. My gf is no use as she's telling me to get the gallardo or CS....!
Justices said:
The option you've missed is: 355 spider & CS. Buy the CS and "give" the 355 to your gf (not on paper of course) so you're not seen as having two cars 
Haha! My gf is only just learning to drive (booking lessons as I type)....! And besides: running a CS AND a 355, what do you think I am, made of money?!
Bloody hell, and I've just found this thread: http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...
And done search....
http://www.autoscout24.eu/ListGN.aspx?vis=1&st...
At the prices some of these are at, I wouldn't even have to sell the 355....
Buy car cheap from continent, then spend another couple of €k for CoC, dash mph stickers and blokey who sorts the deal for you etc. Fly out on easy jet to sunny wherever, 3k mile road trip home. Job jobbed.
And done search....
http://www.autoscout24.eu/ListGN.aspx?vis=1&st...
At the prices some of these are at, I wouldn't even have to sell the 355....
Buy car cheap from continent, then spend another couple of €k for CoC, dash mph stickers and blokey who sorts the deal for you etc. Fly out on easy jet to sunny wherever, 3k mile road trip home. Job jobbed.
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Okay, so for various reasons, well one actually, I've decided to chop the budget to to an absolute max of £100k which would include whatever I got for my 355. As sad as it sounds I just don't think I can get on board with the frivolity of having say £125k (prev budget + 355 sale) tied up in "toys"...especially when my new Street Triple R is being delivered on Monday and I can't seem to sell my current bike (BMW F800S...pm me if interested!). Besides, after bit of checking £20k buys me a parking space in a fancy car park in London near where I live
Anyway, while a CS is still an option, my latest idea (which I discussed in detail with Carspath at the Ferrari Silverstone thing today ) is a bit off the wall. While CSs are epic, it would still fundamentally be just one car. And I really, and I mean *really* desire a cobra recreation havign seen a few recently. I've been doing some research and significantly less than £50k gets me a personalised custom built one (lead time 8 weeks) with pretty much all the goodies such as a Dax 427 with 450bhp 6.3 litre stroker Chevy carburettored V8, LSD, soft top etc etc etc Depreciation isn't bad either - an initial hit then they hold completely steady it seems, totally different from regular cars). Now the beauty of this is, I still have £50k or so left over for a daily sh*tter I can think of nothing better than a 550 
I think in my heart I don't want to leave the Ferrari fraternity, but I think I do want to change my 355. She's great and I'm sure I'll miss her but I do feel I should move on and enjoy other cars (christ, I sound like I'm talking about an ex gf ). Plus, I think that if you're going to chop in one of the all time great Ferraris, you should probably replace it one of similar standing
Okay, so for various reasons, well one actually, I've decided to chop the budget to to an absolute max of £100k which would include whatever I got for my 355. As sad as it sounds I just don't think I can get on board with the frivolity of having say £125k (prev budget + 355 sale) tied up in "toys"...especially when my new Street Triple R is being delivered on Monday and I can't seem to sell my current bike (BMW F800S...pm me if interested!). Besides, after bit of checking £20k buys me a parking space in a fancy car park in London near where I live
Anyway, while a CS is still an option, my latest idea (which I discussed in detail with Carspath at the Ferrari Silverstone thing today
) is a bit off the wall. While CSs are epic, it would still fundamentally be just one car. And I really, and I mean *really* desire a cobra recreation havign seen a few recently. I've been doing some research and significantly less than £50k gets me a personalised custom built one (lead time 8 weeks) with pretty much all the goodies such as a Dax 427 with 450bhp 6.3 litre stroker Chevy carburettored V8, LSD, soft top etc etc etc Depreciation isn't bad either - an initial hit then they hold completely steady it seems, totally different from regular cars). Now the beauty of this is, I still have £50k or so left over for a daily sh*tter I can think of nothing better than a 550 I think in my heart I don't want to leave the Ferrari fraternity, but I think I do want to change my 355. She's great and I'm sure I'll miss her but I do feel I should move on and enjoy other cars (christ, I sound like I'm talking about an ex gf ). Plus, I think that if you're going to chop in one of the all time great Ferraris, you should probably replace it one of similar standing Edited by Mario149 on Saturday 15th September 21:13
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