More HP Lower purchase price Lower running costs EZ to get serviced Exotic looks Modern comforts Modern convenience 2020 production is essentially sold out - in just a matter of days. Prediction: Testarossa resale prices will suffer.... greatly Tell me I’m wrong! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I predict we will see a ton of C8's. Only a matter of time before someone makes a Ferrari body kit for it. Sent from my GM1917 using Tapatalk
But I don't think that the Testarossa will suffer, they are two very different cars. Sent from my GM1917 using Tapatalk
It’s not a Ferrari and it never will be. The folks that can afford a Ferrari will pick a Ferrari over a corvette any day. The build quality with all of the cheap materials is why it is so cheap. The car exudes this cheap feel. I know because I just sold one. I enjoyed it and yes it is fast but I want a Ferrari or Lamborghini. No high production vehicle like that will ever be special no matter how much lipstick you put on it.
The quality should be improving this time around. But you are right, it won't be as special. But the thing is, the C8 probably wasn't made for the Ferrari guys. It's for the normal people who can't afford a car in the 6 figures. These will sell, and I can't wait until they become super cheap used. I'll take mine in grey over red so it matches my Testarossa. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my GM1917 using Tapatalk
I can't see why it would impact the values. You buy a Testarossa because you love the car and everything about it. If you want a modern fast car there are plenty to choose from.
AND they'll slap together more 'Vettes each week than the whole of the Testarossa-F512M run, and continue to spit them out for years. The Ferrari, notsomuch.
Listen, if the values do drop I’ll just start buying as many as I can afford then. Works for me. But I know for sure that won’t happen. Just saying I would. I’d like to buy another one You got that right. The testarossa is after all an iconic car that will go down in history as being on of the great Ferrari’s in my opinion. Nothing can take away from that.
The corvette has been a better car than a TR since the C5. This is even better still. It wont affect our niche car one way or the other
nice car, at end of the day its a corvette not an itilain exotic,nothing wrong with a vette but it will never be a ferrari
whats the actual drive experience going to be like. Pretty much all moderns are a synthesized experince, the only question is degree. An older ferrari is something completly different.
You know how some guys like blondes with augmented breasts? And some guys like red heads? And some guy like the librarian type? Others like the slut? Some the virgin? Some guys yearn for the elderly obese chick... which I never understood. Cars are like that. You want a Ferrari because you WANT a Ferrari... The guy buying the new Vette isn’t cross shopping a testarossa, anymore than the high school French teacher with her eye on a student is considering the octagenerian down the hall... Heart wants what the heart wants...
In general I agree with you. However some of us like all cool cars, each has its thing, the heart is pulled in many directions. Bearing in mind no one has driven one yet, the new vette seems one of the few exciting new cars to come along, and for various reasons, because maybe it does all the things thise otehr bland moderns do, just as well and for a lot less. All of which is to say I really like the older cars for their immersive experince, somehgitng moderns simply and sadly have lost. Yet its also true that we all or nearly all of us want to know how this new vette runs, because if moderns are a fact of life this is maybe the smart choice. In general moderns are too heavy, too easy and too bland, too synthesized, relying on sheer velocity/hp as a substitute for their tactile shortcomings. So if you're going to get/try a modern, why spend all that $$$ om a ferrari thats not really that different to any number of other moderns, might as well get a vette and save the $$$ for some other older cars too.
As said above, many people like all cars. I don’t need an F badge to define me. I like the TR because I like the TR, and many other ferraris. But I have also owned other cars and hope to have many more as well. Right now I have the TR as my sole sports car (aside from wife’s M4), but I’d at a vette to the stable, or a Lambo, or a whatever. You never know if you don’t try it...
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No. Look, I’m a fan of the new corvette but its not the same animal. Many Ferrari owners will have a new corvette. Few new Corvette owners will have a ferrari. Besides, the 458 makes more power and has a screaming flat-plane V8
This is the ‘introduction’ year. Once they ramp up, higher HP options will become available. The current ZR1 offers 755HP. Picture THAT in a C8!
Truth be known... I can drive the snot out of a vette. Thrash it like a stolen horse. Beat the H out of it and never look back. Never felt comfortable doing that in a Fcar. They are too fragile and stupid expensive to fix. I’d cry if the Testarossa was stuffed into a wall. Vette? Go down to the chevy dealer and get another! Never felt comfortable leaving a Fcar unattended in a parking lot. Never let it sit out in the Nevada sun. Vette? No problem. Bake away! The C8 would make a sweet ride for daily use. The only downside is trying to keep a license!
Your wrong I think. Im on the order list for one. The build quality and carbon fiber is awesome. Much higher tech. It has a front end lift that you can tap at any location and the gps remembers to lift the front in case you forget. I dont think it will affect TR cars because we are vintage owners. It will affect new purchases on Ferrari, Lamborghini and McClaren. So I agree and disagree. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat.com mobile app
