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easy_rider911 said:
I wish nberry would read this thread. What you've all said is what one would expect of a F430 in a 'normal' used car market situation. If the car market is manipulated, as in the USA, no wonder Ferrari used car prices are artificially high.
Simply appalling that Ferrari has managed this in North America. There must be some form of federal competition authority that regulates against anti-competitive practices?
I'm no expert on these matters but the situation in the USA stinks to me...
Doubt governmental authorities anywhere should waste their finite time/efforts to "protect" guys considering $200K+ discretionary cars....
Even in "manipulated" US F mkt, doesn't take all that much shrewdness to figure out how to get an early, latest-tech new
F@MSRP....need to remember that prob 90%++ of guys w/resources in US (or anywhere) really are disinterested in any cars, so lim competition from many buyers w/substantive resources
....it's the same, simple game as getting a desirable table on short notice at FrenchLaundry/FatDuck/PerSe, etc.
Besides, given that houses in Lond's WEnd (despite dubious HVAC systems
) cost 2x what comparable (but latest-tech
) houses in NYC/SF cost, I doubt relative cost of new F ownership is only area where US is much cheaper than EU....would suspect NYC/SF's overall cost of living (esp high-end houses/cars, etc) is roughly 50% cheaper than Lond's....
BTW, agree whole-heartedly that US F mkt is cleverly "managed" by F....US gets only 30%ish of global F produc, but buys 65%ish of global 65 produc....and absorbed some 55%ish of global CGT produc....suspect if US received 65% of global F produc, F would have similar one-yr trade-in value (some 60% of MSRP) to 65s, as the resale value Ponzi scheme would quickly unravel and many cash-poor poseurs would disappear....i.e., would be really hard to distinguish F from Lambo on a resale value/hard-to-get basis in US mkt....will be interesting to see if globalization will soon produce similar one-yr trade-in values for 599 (or coming 430CS/Enzo 2.0) in Lond vs MC vs Munich vs Greenwich vs SF....