Ferrari Mailing List: Personalisation effect on valuation

[Michel Savard (mysavard]

Speaking about “effect on valuation”,  spending tens of thousands of dollars on 
personalisation of your Ferrari has been the ‘IN’ thing to do for many years.
I’ve always thought that too much personalisation on a Ferrari would in the 
long term make it lose in value.

For instance, I once saw a light purple with a white interior Testarossa. The 
only way I could buy (not that I have the money to buy it) that car, would be 
to get a HUGE discount so I could pay for the repaint and change the interior’s 
color. I just saw at an auction a Portofino with very bright red leather 
interior. All those personal gimmicks they pay for  today will hurt the resale 
value in the long term in my opinion.

What do you think ?

Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)