488 daily/regular driver

488 daily/regular driver

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bw1981

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80 months

Thursday 21st September 2017
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Pretty soon I'm going to be in the market for a 488.

I'm coming from a 2008 Audi R8 which I use fairly regularly - 3x a week, maybe 2 short trips and a long one each week, around 10k miles a year. I would need/want to do the same in the 488.

I'm wondering what problems I will have using it as an 'every day' but not 'daily' car, in particular:

- How will it fare in bad weather - heavy rain or those icy winter mornings. Am I asking for trouble? The R8 is 4WD so no issues there.

- Parking in multi story car parks - does it work :-)

- Response to using it as a daily car. I don't see many Ferraris parked in Tesco. Even the attention of an R8 is full on sometimes.

- Depreciation at 10k+ miles a year, being parked outside more often etc - is it nuts in a car like this?

Any other considerations to using one as a daily?