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What does Ferrari do to be able to enforce their rules?
by pests 3y ago
What does Ferrari do to be able to enforce their rules?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThe simple answer is that it's never been tested - no-one has tried to resell a "restricted" Ferrari.
- mike_d 3y agoFerrari won't interfere with the sale of a vehicle, because they have no legal grounds to do so. However you do give up your ability to be waitlisted for upcoming models, which effectively prevents you from buying them new ever again. Ferrari terminated the franchise agreement for the Wynn Las Vegas Ferrari dealership because Steve Wynn sold his LaFerrari before the 2 year window was up.
- piperswe 3y agoFerrari can blacklist you from receiving allocations for new cars, but AFAIK they can't limit your access to the used market.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoSure they can. Someone who sells you a used car ends up blacklisted as well; people who own high end / collectable Ferraris wouldn't dare risk being blacklisted. They famously blacklisted Top Gear for revealing that Ferrari was 'cheating' in their evaluations by arriving with an army of technicians and tuning the car to the Top Gear test track before allowing TG to review it, and delivering the car with tires much stickier than they came from the factory and so on. Every other journalist was gladly hiding all this bullshit because they didn't want to lose access to press cars. Top Gear hosts said "if you happen to have one of the ____ models and would let us drive it, let us know" during an episode and someone took them up on it. Ferrari blacklisted the owner for doing so.