WTF?

[Triumph Man]

People, I give you the very, very rare Ferrari 458 3.0 diesel manual. For today's conservation climate.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Seriously, I would not trust a trader as far as I could throw them if they mis-described a car like this. On the flip side, if they thought that putting "3.0 diesel manual" would attract more customers, I think they are mistaken. Nobody thinks, hang on, I've got £10k for a 330d, but oo here's a Ferrari for £229k, because of course I can afford that.

Prats.

[rix]

clerical error, either on the dealer's or AT's part?

[longshot]

It seems to have done the trick.

[Triumph Man]

Surely the dealer has to input that information? If so, that's a pretty stupid error, you would have thought someone would check. And it's left hand drive

[Triumph Man]

longshot said:

It seems to have done the trick.

I was only curious if someone had actually built a diesel 458, or if it was a crappy rep based on something with a 3.0 diesel.

[Chrisw666]

Triumph Man said:

People, I give you the very, very rare Ferrari 458 3.0 diesel manual. For today's conservation climate.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

Seriously, I would not trust a trader as far as I could throw them if they mis-described a car like this. On the flip side, if they thought that putting "3.0 diesel manual" would attract more customers, I think they are mistaken. Nobody thinks, hang on, I've got £10k for a 330d, but oo here's a Ferrari for £229k, because of course I can afford that.

Prats.

I'm sure that's exactly what a well known specialist car dealer needs to do to attract sales of Italian Exotica

The data you refer to is added by the AT system not the dealer and mistakes have been known to happen.

It really is stupid season on here at the minute.

[Triumph Man]

Brilliant. Thanks for that insight. To be honest, I did think it was the dealer.

[sherman]

It appears to be missing something, if its a manual.

Edited by sherman on Wednesday 25th July 23:01

[anonymous-user]

oh no..is this just dumbing down gone too far..

[Triumph Man]

billybob69 said:

oh no..is this just dumbing down gone too far..

Alright, I cocked up by thinking the dealer inputted the info. Sorry dealer! AT, you really dropped the ball.

[Zwolf]

It's probably wearing a private plate that was formerly on a 3.0D something, or the plate has moved on etc. Also goes to explain the 2012 "60" plate thing, when a "60" reg denotes a first reg date of 1st Sep 2010-28th Feb 2011 - which was before you could buy a 458 Spyder I thought.

[Triumph Man]

So if I was to put the Triumph up for sale, it could possibly show it as a 1.6 auto? For some reason some of these reg check sites you put the reg in to show it as a BMW 316 auto.

[Bisonhead]

has nlo one thought a 2012 60 plate was a bit weird?