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Old 01-23-2007, 01:45 PM   #16
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Ferrari 30k miles service 12,000-14,000 USD?
This just shows how out of touch you are with reality. For a 360, the cost of a 30k service is $4-5,000. It's certainly not cheap, but about 1/3 of what you think it is. On a 430 it's even cheaper as they changed the main part of the big service from the 360 (replacing and adjusting timing belts, on the 430 they're now chains).

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Statistics in Car & Driver and every sports car mag in the world will tell you that Porsche is superior to Ferrari.
Superior how? Being a cheaper car to run? No one is denying that. But by the same logic, a Toyota is a superior car to a Porsche.

Porsches are great cars. No one is denying that. But they're hardly the be and end all of motoring. And considering the fact that the purchase price of a 430 Spider is well north of $250k, I don't think most buyers worry too much about a $5k major service every three years.

To each his own. I'd rather have a Ferrari 360 than a new Porsche Turbo. Even though they're comparable in price, but the Porsche is faster. Just like I'd rather have a 911S than a Z06.
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