im considering getting a 2002 maserati spyder with less than 50k miles. i was trying to find out if it is a good daily driver? also i wanted to know how expensive it is to maintain. do you need to tune it every year how much is it for changing the oil. I really want this car but i want to be able to afford to take care of it.|||What you ought to know is that Maserati are extremely expensive to maintain. They are often called the poor man's Ferrari, and that's exactly what they are. A Maserati will make you a poor man. $3-4,000 brake jobs every 6-8k miles, $300 oil changes every 4 months, a $10,000 clutch job every 15-18k miles stack up very quickly. You will need about $15-20k a year to keep a 2002-ish Maserati running as a daily driver, and if memory serves me correctly, the new Gran Turismo is no better than its older sibling.
Maintenance isn't the only thing you have to worry about. Some owners have been complaining about electric motors of all kinds failing after just a few hundred miles. The Cambiocorsa transmission is brilliant at high speeds or in enthousiastic driving, but you won't be doing a lot of that. With that transmission, it's not a matter of IF it will break... it's a matter of WHEN. And when it does, you can count on a $10,000 part on the estimate, as well as over 48 hours in technician time, at $130-150/hour, at a Ferrari/Maserati dealership, or anywhere from $50-80/hour at an authorized repair shop (ex.: Prancing Horse Ltd. here in Montreal). At that point you will have no choice but to bend over and take it up your **** if you want your car on the road.
If you have the money, just go for a Nissan GTR or even, to some extent, an Audi R8. Better performance to boot, and less expensive to maintain. But you just can't beat the acoustics of a Ferrari V8, especially if you have a Tubi exhaust hanging out the back end.
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