I Rented A Budget Las Vegas Ferrari Rental

What's going on everybody. Rob Ferretti here in Las Vegas Nevada. See there's Las Vegas Behind me I've got a 458 rental car that I just scored from a company that's not mine I just doing a little bit of market research here because in Vegas they seem to make offers that are too good to be true and I've been in the business for 15 years when something's too good to be true there's usually a reason now this far behind me was six hundred dollars for a day with 175 miles and no security deposit that doesn't make good business sense, because it's not even profitable. Let's see if we can figure out what the business model is. So the car from 20 feet looks good, it's on point. A bunch of little like nicks and scratches but that could happen on any car that's i cant pretend like that that would be an issue to me if I rented this car. This doesn't line up clearly the guy and I think one of my bigger problems was the guy was feeding me lines of BS he told me that that was normal over there and when it came to this side I said "so why is this line not like that" his answer was simply "that the car flexes that's perfectly normal" he made up a story about the horses being stolen all the time I've had six or eight 458 never had a horse stolen told me made a hundred of them and they were all stolen so still again don't believe him but this one hasn't been stolen he said because it's been welded on. Some of the stuff that concerned me he sells insurance for a hundred fifty dollars to people from New York who don't have insurance or to people from Europe I asked them why I couldn't purchase the insurance for the parts have an extra layer he told me "you're not allowed to double insure a car". I inquired why you can't double insure a car because when I travel Hertz tries to sell me insurance when I already have insurance, it's just what they do. I don't know what the issue was there then I asked if I could use Amex premium car rental protection and they said no they don't accept it because Amex takes a year to pay. So when I started digging into it a little bit on the insurance end I started talking about (to off camera) good thanks. When I started digging into it on the insurance end I started asking well what about this what about this and he starts telling me well if you damaged wheel which the most common damage usually you have to buy a whole set because they don't sell just one wheel and now I start getting into the talking to the guy who knows what he's talking about but I'm pretending like I don't know, and I'm like - look guy you said a bunch of stuff I disagree with but understand you don't have to buy a full set of wheels if one wheel is damaged or has to be replaced you can still get one "no you can't" so then we start playing the internet game one like we'll go look up this website but look at this website i'm not even talking about used wheels on ebay i'm talking about going you can walk into a Ferrari dealership buy a wheel 2,500 bucks from the manufacturer but you can at least buy one. So I see the setup there that if they are pinning you for damage or something like that that they may I take you to the cleaners if you know what I mean because you don't know what you're doing. Now let's show you the interior this is really where you're going to see the most noticeable, I mean from outside the car looks fine inside I mean the seat is completely in disrepair it's like falling apart let's see we need to focus on that I mean so you have that and that that's a replaceable thing I mean honestly we've at Gotham run cars up to the 500,000, 500,000! Sorry the odometer was broke and it was 500,000. We've run them up to about a 100,000 early on when we started the company but we've always replace seats reupholstered them because nobody wants to get into have something like that this car and this sort of explains what you're looking at this explains why it's so cheap because (Warning beeps repeat) ...because... (Still beeping) ...ok, you stop... (Still beeping) let's see, let's get rid of those error messages (beeping stops) because the car has 73,000 miles on it so clearly they just run them down until they're no longer runnable and then they get rid of them so that's that answers that I mean the standard like the buttons are all broken the quality inside is a little bit worse than it should be but you're you're paying half of what anyone else charges so that's what you get it's got an exhaust tick in the back the differential is no good when you take it any sort of driveway an angle is something like that the rear diff make some really weird noise, it drives straight it's a decent value if you don't really care about what you're getting but as far as anything else i mean i'd rather spend the extra couple bucks get a newer car that's gonna drive better and there's the exhaust tick let's see, if we shut the window and hear that (Engine revving a noticeable ticking coming from the exhaust) so you've got that these are the major things I've noticed you got that exhaust tick when you step on the gas i'll see if i can just drive here for a second when you let your foot off the gas you got this weird like sighing sound and the transmission is not that great either or the clutch whatever it doesn't I've been told varying stories one of them being that this car doesn't have a clutch and it's a little sloppy when i say a little sloppy it's not very smooth between gears but it'll give you the idea of what it's like to drive one of these things it's never gonna driving an 80,000 mile ferrari that that's been in a rental fleet and probably not maintained the T will never drive like a newer one with a couple thousand miles on it. So if all you care about is curb appeal and not having the newest nicest Ferrari that's not a terrible investment or not terrible use of money if you're more concerned about what the post rental experience will be like that's where i'd probably be concerned to have a guy feeding the lines and lines of BS about stuff that I know is actually untrue that doesn't speak well for the guy running the company and when you were the guy at least working at the company and obviously I'm not going to give you the company name because i want to plug in it's not something I feel is worthy on the good end or the bad end, but at the end of the day something to be aware of you get what you pay for and when you do business with somebody especially on a smaller level with no security deposit and they didn't bother running my insurance or anything like that you're really running the risk of relying that you're going to do a decent transaction with a decent person I didn't really get that vibe so that's my experience what you get for 700 bucks in vegas i got a Ferrari for the day which not whatever if you want got some dream cars doing driving experience Vegas never get myself a plug we're gonna allow you to the drive Ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens and we've got much newer nicer cars is not gonna be at this cheap cutthroat rate but that we've got nowhere nicer cars and you get guaranteed plus we have a fleet look out four hundred cars in California so anything you can think of that you want we could probably get it over from the LA office. If you're looking to pay for it thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed this experience a little walkthrough on a 73,000 miles Ferarri rental car in Vegas i will catch you next time

Channel: superspeedersRob

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Keywords: super speeders, superspeeders, rob ferretti, podcast, top gear, ferretti, cars, super cars, ferrari, lamborghini, porsche, supra, gumball 3000, nsx, goldrush, rally, paul walker, fast and furious, cop, police, chase, that dude in blue, the smoking tire, chris harris, jeremy clarkson, motor trend, jay leno, garage, gt3, aventador, race, dumbest, truck, dumbest truck, dumbest vehicle, grand tour, las vegas, rental, vegas

Id: P1sTBI1D2Z4

Length: 7min 56sec (476 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/yourewrong321]

Expected shit, turned out to be a great and informative video. That seat looks like crap :(

[u/rdahm]

haha fun video. I rented a Lamborghini Gallard Spyder out there before i got the diablo. It was in really rough shape. didnt matter i had a blast. it wouldnt shift gears occasionally. Rode hard and put away wet im assuming.

[u/[deleted]]

Did they dick you around when you returned it?

[u/NotTylerBurdenOrAmI]

How much would Gotham Dream Cars charge for a 458?

edit:Okay, I've just checked and its substantially more.

[u/jeffAA]

It's it possible there was an accident on the driver side and the side airbag deployed out of the seat? I don't know how the cars are made. That might also explain the panel gap?

[u/dont_wear_a_C]

73,000 miles on the Ferrari.

Approximately ~$700/day for a max of 175 driving miles.

Assuming every driver maxes out on miles, the company grosses $292,000 from a $260,000 car (net ~$30,000). Doesn't seem like It could be a smart investment unless the car goes over 100k miles or something. if they a) bought it used (as other commenters suggested) and b) sold it after xxx amount of miles, since depreciation doesn't affect Ferrari too badly.

E: thanks for the suggestions on the comment, everyone! Probably might be a good investment, even though the rental place looks to have not even taken care of the car. But hey, making money is making money.

[u/S_W]

I recently rented a 458 from Royalty Exotics in Vegas and although it was one of the best deals, $500/4 hrs, unlimited miles and no security deposit, it was a great car. Wasn't beat like the one in the video although it did have a slight tick but I just attributed that to being a rental car which I'm sure is abused. I doubt Rob rented from this place as I don't believe they have a black 458 in their fleet and they are also quite strict about insurance. Nice video though on what to watch out for when renting a car like this.

[u/SublymeStyle]

No one's said this yet... but I wouldn't trust any guy renting exotic cars that didn't immediately recognize /u/SuperSpeedersRob ... he literally revolutionized the business.

[u/ecpackers]

if i'm gonna spend money for a single day rental, i wouldn't give a shit if the car had fucking folding chairs inside it... if if looks good from the curb, that's all that really matters.

OMG 70k MILES! NOOOOOOOOOO! OH WOW, THE BUMBER DOESNT LINE UP!