Want to buy a new Ferrari? Just visit your local dealer, let the salesman talk you through the seemingly endless options – next to no one buys a stock Ferrari these days). Then settle to your preferred specs while savoring the aroma and taste of a fine espresso and arrange a delivery date. A walk in the park, provided sir (or madam) can afford it.
The same goes for a used one, only you don’t get to choose the specs plus you get to save a good deal of money on the asking price. Perhaps getting a second mortgage on the house isn’t such a bad idea after all if you want a cavallino rampante in your garage.
Not all Ferrari are as equal as the others, though. For the “special” models, such as the Enzo or its successor, the LaFerrari, a big fat pocket just doesn’t cut it. You have to actually be invited for the privilege of spending a fortune on one of Maranello’s finest.
That’s to make sure that the limited edition models end up to actual owners and not to speculators who want to make a million or two by selling them off to those not deemed, well, royalty by Ferrari.
In spite of their sorting out of potential customers, in the space of just one week not one but two out of 499 LaFerraris went up for sale. Since the model is officially sold out these are listed as “used” – but you can rest assured that the odometer shows practically no mileage at all.
Last week we found a LaFerrari in Germany,which was up for grabs for a cool €2.19 million (US$2.7 million) before taxes, or a 100 percent mark-up compared to the original price tag.
Now another popped up, this time in Dubai. More precisely in Al Aweer, where the red with black interior 950HP hypercar with Gulf specs “sits proudly” (sic) in Al Qalam Motors’ showroom. There’s no word on the price but, hey, if you have to ask…
For the 99.9 percent of us who can only dream of winning the lottery or something, AutoTraderUAE has prepared a short video showing the actual car, which also happens to be the very first for sale in the UAE.
By Andrew Tsaousis