Anyone had a car come with the wrong options? 296 GTS

Lots of people would never buy a car with black seats. So your resale value could tank by tens of thousands.

Ask them to replace the seats with proof of swap so you have evidence why car and window sticker aren't the same.

If Ferrari cared, they would order you a new one with correct spec and would let you drive this one until it arrived.

 

Those seats are probably 20-30k in resale value eventually. I wouldn't even look at cars with black seats, and based on popularity of crema or cuoio, Im not alone.

Your sales guy will probably do everything he can to convince you how black is the new tan, and how perfect that really is. Because its the easy way out for him.

I wouldn't accept that car. Black seats are awful.

 

Wow. Where in the world are you getting those numbers from? I think every one of my Ferrari has black seats (including my 296) and I would almost bet that having black would not decrease resale value $1. Maybe to you personally but just take a look at the active 296 sales and the majority are black seats.

Color options are very personal to one’s taste but having red exterior and black interior is the safest bet for resale.

 

This has to be really disappointing. I’d be furious. You should get exactly what you ordered. There’s another thread going about a dealer messing up a customer’s service work over an email’s “verbiage.” It’s really astonishing and unacceptable that a Ferrari dealer’s staff pays no more attention to their customers’ needs than their counterparts down the street at the Mitsubishi store,

 

i had all black in a c8, too dark. my next c8 has two tone


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Red/tan, not black for resale value.

You might prefer black but a lot of buyers dont. And its not just Ferraris. Black interiors generally are hardest to sell in any market.

 

Not sure where your data comes from but it is clearly not supported by the evidence. Out of 50 296 for sale 29 of them have black seats. Clearly the majority of what people spec their car in.

 

What color is your 296 exterior/interior?

 

I completely derailed your thread and apologize. You should 100% get what you ordered and since it’s just seats the dealer should hopefully make it right. The times where it’s happened to me it was something that was able to be ordered and the dealer did the right thing. Good luck!

 

Awesome. Good news!!!

 

Sounds like people with black seats realize their mistake quickly and are most willing to sell.

Anyway, not the point of the thread, hope the dealer makes the OP whole and gets the correct seats installed!

 

Sorry to hear. I see that your PDF says "ver4" so something was missed in the revisions. Was your dash lower also cream leather, or all black? The door cards?

Maybe, just maybe, they can have some seats shipped out if the other parts are supposed to be black. No sure what they will do about the build sheet and placard though. I will actually be surprised if they change it out before you take delivery though, it seems that when I've seen wrong color/stripe/seat/etc at delivery the customer is faced with a take-it-or-leave-it scenario.

 

Counterpoint though is those cars were never intended to be keepers. They are almost all either flips or GTS placeholders. So many of them are meh.

 

Meh or neutral and most likely to be easily sold. Which was my point, that by selecting black you aren’t going to lose 20-30k in resale just for that color.

 

Let me rephrase it for you. "I didn't spend 15k in upgrades on seat to get F'ed"

In all honesty, sorry this happened to you. Tell the dealer to take the car back and reorder the new one.. also maybe blessing in disguise. Not take it at all, since 296 price is dropping now, if you care that is.

 

Lol @ this entire response. Good Lord


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Entire response? You'd be happy to keep the sub-standard seats they provided? Or after they replace the seats, you'd be happy to have no proof why your build sheet and car don't match?

Good lord.

 

I think it's your dubious generalization of people don't buy black seats and resale will tank.

 

Nice way to straw man my post, as that's not what I said.
People do buy cars with black seats, but a) they tend to have a lower resale value (subjective) and b) it's not what he ordered (a fact).

And if that is the only thing you read in the post, perhaps you want to read it again, as he said he "lol'd" at "entire response". The part about not liking black seats is subjective, the part about OP not getting the car he wanted is not. I said it "could" lower the resale value. The number it lowers is subjective, historically lighter interiors are more sought after but again - that part is up for interpretation. I said he should ask the seats to be replaced with proof of replacement, as then his window sticker would differ from the actual configuration - I think this is a reasonable ask. I said if Ferrari cared, they would order a new one, but that's a hypothetical as we all know, Ferrari does not care.