james_woods
This may sound like a dumb or invasive question, but (without going into details) does it cost you a fortune to keep your car well maintained? I bet parts are expensive.
I have owned it for about 6 years now and have spent a total of about $24,000 on maintenance. So, maybe $4,000 a year.
The Testarossa is just about the most expensive Ferrari there is to maintain because you have to do an engine-out service every 5 years to replace the timing belts which are not accessible unless you remove the engine and transmission. This service alone runs about $10,000. It is really a very well-engineered car and things do not just unexpectedly break, but it is 26 years old (26,000 miles on mine) and stuff does eventually wear out.
Most other Ferraris (including the modern ones) do not require the engine-out and cost roughly half as much to maintain. This cost is making the Testarossa (especially early ones like mine) fairly rare as many have been scrapped for parts when they need so much back maintenance that it was not worth the cost.
The FCA did an owners summary of the '85/'86 single mirror cars like mine three years back and we found a total of a little over 100 still on the road in the U.S. There are quite a few more of the later models - variations of it were made up until '95.
