430 Scuderia thoughts...

[adamjsmith]

thboler.com have a LHD Scud for sale close to your budget. I only spotted it because they've got my Tesla on SoR, no idea of history etc.

[355fiorano]

A friend went to see this car when it was being sold by the owner himself
Seemed like a good car but he found another one from a dealer with less miles, better options etc
This car is now here http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/f...
and it is at nearly the same price as he was asking on a private sale.
See the gray car with 26k miles here which was the private ad
http://www.clubstradale.com/ferrari-430-scuderia-s...

[Quickmoose]

What kind of self respecting £140k Ferrari seller describes their cars as "gray"

It has to be a Grigio of some sort.... this stuff matters!

[Chris355]

The THBoler car is sold, I phoned last week. Autologix are also advertising a red one that is sold. I wish traders would take ads down when sold!

The grigio car is nice but I want to be in black, or ideally, red.

[Yipper]

Huge 430 Scud crash on the M1 in Yorkshire this week.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[RRSS]

Can't believe I missed this thread as I was looking for a LHD Scud exactly this time last year.

Finally got it in May and it's been fantastic. Did everyone get one?

[Chris355]

Hi, after a lot of hunting around I bought a 458 instead. Quite different cars, but 458 was epically impressive.

[ted 191]

Chris355 said:

Hi, after a lot of hunting around I bought a 458 instead. Quite different cars, but 458 was epically impressive.

And a far nicer car than a scud !

[RRSS]

ted 191 said:

And a far nicer car than a scud !

Guess that depends on your definition of nicer and what you're looking for. I drove the scud, 458 and 488 back to back at Lovett's and there was absolutely no comparison for me.

[RRSS]

Chris355 said:

Hi, after a lot of hunting around I bought a 458 instead. Quite different cars, but 458 was epically impressive.

Very nice, and yes as you say, very different. Hope you're loving it

[RamboLambo]

RRSS said:

Guess that depends on your definition of nicer and what you're looking for. I drove the scud, 458 and 488 back to back at Lovett's and there was absolutely no comparison for me.

430 Scuderia is by far the most involving and exciting of those 3 as a lightweight track edition but for a regular production standard guise car the 458 is better than the 488 IMHO.
I'm not a fan of Ferrari going down the turbocharged route with the 488. I'm not even sure the lightweight VS version or whatever it will be called will make up for it either. Not that you can actually buy one

[Scott Laurie]

bought me lhd two years ago, have spent some time just making it perfect, i think the stripes are the main thing, plus the led lights on wheel,

i think £135k for a lhd will be tight if your looking for a nice car, clutch and discs are seriously expensive so have wear checked before purchase as a cheap car may turn out to be more expensive in the long run,

good luck with your hunt for a car,

regards
Scott

[LIVENT]

RamboLambo said:

RRSS said:

Guess that depends on your definition of nicer and what you're looking for. I drove the scud, 458 and 488 back to back at Lovett's and there was absolutely no comparison for me.

430 Scuderia is by far the most involving and exciting of those 3 as a lightweight track edition but for a regular production standard guise car the 458 is better than the 488 IMHO.
I'm not a fan of Ferrari going down the turbocharged route with the 488. I'm not even sure the lightweight VS version or whatever it will be called will make up for it either. Not that you can actually buy one

It just shows how personal options differ. I drove all 3 cars. I very almost bought a scud at auction 18 months ago but realised I actually did not want such a track focused car, I wanted to be able to do some long drives to the south of France etc.... I loved driving the 458 but back to back with the 488 there was no comparison. The 488 is just a better more refined car (in my humble opinion), I love the turbo charged engine too. I drove both on track and on the public roads as well as a whole host of other stuff and bought the 488.

So yes listen to people's opinions but ultimately you are you so buy what you want. If I was buying a track car it would be the scud but tbh I would probably not buy a Ferrari as a track toy, I would probably go for something completely different.