Are you the type of person that changes oil after every track weekend? You can, it’s just a bit overkill. When it’s track season use Motul or Redline, when it’s not go back to Mobil1 or equivalent approved synthetic. I’m not tracking the Porsche full time yet; it’s too new and nice.

There are no 5 bedroom homes in SF for $749k; the average would be about $4 million at $1000/ft, which is low. There are very few 2BR apartments for $749k. There are many 1BR apartments over $1.3 million. Again, the labor rates at Ferrari Silicon Valley and Ferrari “San Francisco” in Marin are $500 per hour and the…

It’s $15 a quart and you need 7.5 quarts. It’s pretty easy if you use full synthetic and drive 5000 miles a year, though the changes are good for 10K per Porsche. See you at the track in your high mileage car?

The factory to dealer model is so badly broken. Even at a high end dealership like Porsche, you drive to their building so a computer illiterate sales associate can hunt-and-peck the keyboard with 2 fingers and key your order into Internet Explorer 6, while you watch in complete agony over how much of your time he is…

Going 0-60 in 8.9 seconds is as sweet in this car as it was in the 2004 Acura TSX.

There are and I see Ferraris at the independent shops all of the time. It doesn’t make the bill come out to that much less. Maybe it’s $9500 instead of $11,900. The car is on the lift for like a week with the whole drivetrain on the floor.

It’s not a great idea to buy one of these cars, extend the maintenance interval, skip a bunch of things a responsible owner would do, and then try to sell it. These aren’t thrift items. They’re money pits for enthusiasts. There is no such thing as owning an exotic without spending six figures on maintenance and…

This has not been my experience. Ferrari owners fall into one of two buckets. Either you live in a big market and you have a dealer nearby, or you live in a secondary market and you flatbed your car to somewhere like LA for service. In San Francisco and Marin, the labor rate at the Ferrari dealer is $500 per hour.…

These articles are pretty misleading. It’s not uncommon to have $20,000 in maintenance per year on a car like this. You have to drop the engine and transmission for a lot of routine service. Most people don’t drive them more than 1000 or 2000 miles a year. If you’re going to the track, you can triple the maintenance…