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four-year warranty (if they're UK-supplied with right-
hand drive; all other markets have three years' cover).
It's possible to extend this warranty by a year at a time
up to the car's 15th birthday; any used car bought
through an official dealer will come with a two-year
warranty. You'll pay £4400 to extend the warranty for
each year, but this cost includes any routine
maintenance required in that time – and again, if you're
a high-mileage driver you can enjoy more than one free
service in this period.
As Ferrari's entry-level model the California sold well,
so there are plenty of them on the used market. The
earliest cars are on an ‘09’ plate, so they've just
celebrated their 10th birthday. Even the cheapest
examples are still worth around half of what they
cost new. The cheapest example we’ve seen was a
left-hand drive 2011 example imported from Saudi
Arabia with 28,042km on the clock, which recently
sold at auction for £66,788. RHD prices generally
start at £75,000, although there is the odd car
available for closer to £70,000. Even the leggiest
California that we could find had covered just 52,000
miles, but few cars on the market have more than
25,000 miles on the clock.
The naturally aspirated California is priced at up to
£110,000, and this is where the California T then picks
up the baton. For your 110 large ones you can secure a
2014 California T with just 10,000 miles on the clock;
few of these later cars have covered more than 15,000
miles. The ceiling for the California T is about £130,000,
but there is the odd car closer to £150,000 if it's very
late, very low mileage and the owner got particularly
carried away with the options list. III
Many thanks to Peter
Churchley, Doug Watkinson
and Ferrari North Europe
for their help in the
preparation of this feature
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