This is why every knucklehead on youtube asking "Can you daily drive a Ferrari" is wasting your time. No. You can't. Not if you follow the real service guidelines for these cars. It becomes insanely expensive if you use them for more than a toy. Frankly, they are impractical to take places anyway.
I have a normal station wagon for driving around town and doing mundane stuff. I own one of the most practical Ferraris, and it is still long, low, and wide, much more in every dimension than a normal car (It is actually longer and wider than our C class station wagon), so parking it is hard. Forget about drive up windows, you are too low. It gets 9 mpg around town if you drive it conservatively, so it isn't going to save you money there. It also needs to warm up to operating temp before you can really drive it, so it will add like 10 minutes onto any trip you are going to take just getting it to temp. It is stupid loud so you have to consider waking up the neighborhood when you decide to drive it. It also has two different sized unidirectional tires front and rear and it eats the very expensive pirellis like candy, especially the rears. So, A Ferrari is the least practical driving implement one can imagine. It is up there with a vintage steam car in practicality. The only thing that makes any of this worth while is the smile you get from listening to a real, naturally aspirated V12 howling as you drive it. It is fast, agile and fun, and those are really the only strengths of the thing.
I would be afraid to wrench on it myself. My technical skills end at changing the oil on my old Ford Mustang. A Ferrari is a different thing, with tons of technology and everyday shit jammed together in a dense network of bits. Packaging on these things is a work of art/Italian madness. You want to change the spark plugs? Well, the intake manifold has to come off. You need to do a cam sensor swap, you are changing the radiator hoses and taking off the water pump too. The service intervals are expensive and complicated as if you are going to pay a guy 200 bucks an hour to take off the water pump during the cam belt swap, you might as well replace it with a new one as part of the effort. One could maintain a car for less by skipping some of the suggestions, but I wouldn't say skipping that water pump swap on an all aluminum motor is a good idea. One can also just inspect the timing belts and say they look fine, but that might not be a great choice for an interference engine. I see dudes on youtube wth basket case auction F360's doing shade tree work figuring out how to make them run again, and that is cool if fixing exotic cars and the tech aspects is your passion, but it isn't mine.
I know just enough about cars to be dangerous under the hood of one. There also isn't a massive network of youtube videos and troubleshooting guides for my Ferrari, as it is a rare second generation model of an already rare (obscure might be a better term) model. They made 3025 of the series in total, and the second generation car's total production is around 150 cars. The Ferrari dealership manager told me this was only the second of this model he has ever seen in their dealership. So, if I brake something fucking around with a wrench under there, it is probably going to be very expensive and there is no real online help to figure it out.
And I love it and everything about it.
