Ferraris and Bidding Wars in the Desert
For classic car lovers escaping the winter snows, it doesn’t get any better than this year’s Scottsdale auctions, with collectors spending $159.6m to buy about 2,300 cars. As always, Barrett-Jackson…
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A Princely Collection of Rotting Cars
Imagine seeing hundreds of high-end Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens—many with hardly any miles on the odometer—rotting away in tropical heat and humidity. While much has been written of the Sultan…
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A Ferrari 328 with Needs is a Friends Bad Deed
My column takes a slightly different tack this month, as SCMer Aaron Greenburg sent in this letter asking for some advice on a 1988 Ferrari 328: I’m interested in trying…
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Cracking Ferrari’s Enigma Codes
In my October column, I wrote that the factory laptop used to diagnose electrical and mechanical systems of modern Ferraris does not give definitive answers to problems. Instead, the computer…
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High-End Ferrari Buyers Show up at Monterey
In the run-up to this year’s Monterey auctions, there was much concern in the dealer community because so many high-end Ferraris were about to go on the market. After the…
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Finding a Ferrari for $100K or Less
This month our esteemed editor wanted to move away from the high-end Ferraris to the bottom-end world of affordability for mere mortals—perhaps he is still suffering from million-dollar-Monterey shock. My…
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The Snowball Effect
Readers of this column know I’m not a fan of online auctions or dealer auctions because it’s usually impossible to have a detailed, professional pre-purchase inspection of the car. As…
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Greece and the Ferrari Market
How quickly the tides do turn. Only six months ago, in my March SCM column, Dashing Euro Dreams, I wrote, “As the dollar had declined over the last eighteen months,…
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Ann Landers on Ferraris
Thanks to well over 17 years of monthly columns for Sports Car Market, I’ve slowly become the Ann Landers or “Dear Abby” of the Ferrari world, and with an average…
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An Inexact Science
While selling exotic cars is an inexact science, it is a tenet within the trade that buyers want to pay something “back” of the dealer’s cost, while sellers want to…
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