Ferrari 550 - Carbon Bucket Seats
Discussion
jtremlett said:
I assume you mean UK cars? I don't know but I only have three UK cars noted in my database with this option. So I would say unlikely to be more than 10 UK cars (plus the 10 WSRs).
Jonathan
Is this database publicly available or your own personal thing? Would be curious to have a look if it's on the interweb... Jonathan
So as I suspected, very few indeed. No doubt more LHD cars due to larger numbers in general.. I've only come across two in the past (for sale), both LHD, one of which I bought. I must say they look fantastic, particularly the rear of them viewed through the rear screen. They do certainly make a special car that bit more special!
R5OHH said:
So as I suspected, very few indeed. No doubt more LHD cars due to larger numbers in general.. I've only come across two in the past (for sale), both LHD, one of which I bought. I must say they look fantastic, particularly the rear of them viewed through the rear screen. They do certainly make a special car that bit more special!
To give you a rough idea, I have about 10 Euro cars noted as having the sports seats - and yours wasn't one of them (although it is in my database, just not with that info).Jonathan
Interesting, mine is a Swiss car in Canna di Fucile and tobacco, so a rare colour way. How have you gathered your info? Mine had only one owner from new so inevitably wouldn't have been seen in the marketplace before. The only other one I've come across was a maroon, possibly rosso fiorano, german car.. Certainly not seen any others in the last year.
R5OHH said:
Interesting, mine is a Swiss car in Canna di Fucile and tobacco, so a rare colour way. How have you gathered your info? Mine had only one owner from new so inevitably wouldn't have been seen in the marketplace before. The only other one I've come across was a maroon, possibly rosso fiorano, german car.. Certainly not seen any others in the last year.
My info comes from all sorts of sources including from seeing cars, for sale ads, official Ferrari sources etc. Your car is in my database from when it was for sale at Niki Hasler in September 2008. I have about 2900 550 Maranellos in my database (supposedly 3083 made) with varying amounts of information about each car. I have six cars noted as Canna di Fucile, of which yours is the only one with Cuoio interior (3 black, 1 beige, 1 Bordeaux for the others).Jonathan
I was looking at a 575M at that time but I spotted your car in the showroom and it looked to be in good shape. Nice to have one in a rare specification so well done!
Matthias told me that it was one of his personal cars but not sure that he looked old enough to have owned it from new!
The 'number of former keepers' isn't something that the Swiss seem to be bothered about and it isn't recorded anywhere as far as I know.
The only practical way that you can begin to confirm a one-owner car would be if you have some paperwork, such as the original invoice, and the vendor lets you see a copy of the car's current registration paper [the Fahrzeugausweis or carte grise as we call it down here in the French-speaking part] with the current owners details on it - but even that is not definitive proof that it hasn't changed hands more than once and come back to the original owner!
Matthias told me that it was one of his personal cars but not sure that he looked old enough to have owned it from new!
The 'number of former keepers' isn't something that the Swiss seem to be bothered about and it isn't recorded anywhere as far as I know.
The only practical way that you can begin to confirm a one-owner car would be if you have some paperwork, such as the original invoice, and the vendor lets you see a copy of the car's current registration paper [the Fahrzeugausweis or carte grise as we call it down here in the French-speaking part] with the current owners details on it - but even that is not definitive proof that it hasn't changed hands more than once and come back to the original owner!
jtremlett said:
y info comes from all sorts of sources including from seeing cars, for sale ads, official Ferrari sources etc. Your car is in my database from when it was for sale at Niki Hasler in September 2008. I have about 2900 550 Maranellos in my database (supposedly 3083 made) with varying amounts of information about each car. I have six cars noted as Canna di Fucile, of which yours is the only one with Cuoio interior (3 black, 1 beige, 1 Bordeaux for the others).
Jonathan
O/T - do you have figures for the number of Argento/Bordeaux 550s? That's what mine is, just wondering how many similar ones are out thereJonathan
mon the fish said:
O/T - do you have figures for the number of Argento/Bordeaux 550s? That's what mine is, just wondering how many similar ones are out there
I have 25 UK cars as silver with Bordeaux. That isn't definitive but shouldn't be too far off. I think I missing 4 or 5 UK cars from my data and I have about 50 where I don't have the full colour details.Jonathan
My 550 Maranello WSR had Carbon seats.
My 550 (Argento Nurburgring) with Blu Interior had comfort/standard seats
My 550 (TdF Blue) with (Crema and Blu interitor - so hard to keep clean) had Carbon seats, 3 part Alloy wheels, FHP and full Luggage set!
So there are standard ones with them in!
My 550 (Argento Nurburgring) with Blu Interior had comfort/standard seats
My 550 (TdF Blue) with (Crema and Blu interitor - so hard to keep clean) had Carbon seats, 3 part Alloy wheels, FHP and full Luggage set!
So there are standard ones with them in!
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