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The only way you would come out even is if someone paid you to take the Maserati away. Speeder's and my friend Eric (Kaisan) set up a different friend of mine with a Maserati Quatroporte with 3,500 miles but it was out of warranty because of its age. It was a complete garage queen and it was just off warranty. It was better than sex in every way except one. It was freekin' beautiful and the interior was better than anything I've ever seen. Some day I'll have a car like that. But it made my Audi RS look like an endurance champion.

The transmission went out twice and the engine went out once in less than two years. Every time I saw him he was driving a Cayenne Turbo because that was the loaner vehicle the dealership gave him when his car was in the shop. Which was all the time. I don't think he was able to get 20,000 miles on it. Even though it was out of warranty the factory helped him out on the engine failure. The bill was more than $20,000 but he paid a mere $4,500. They didn't help him on the two transmission blowouts.

After one too many check engine lights that turned into a $5,000 trip to the dealer, he traded it in on a 997 C4S. Now that's a car. He got about $15,000 in trade in on the Maserati. The urban legend of owning a Ferrari is that it costs a dollar a mile in maintenance. Owning a Maserati out of warranty wishes it could cost only a dollar a mile.