8C Spider
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There was a note in the window saying it was something like only one of 8 (IIRC) registered for the road in the UK. Stewart and I were still there when it left and we both commented how much it sounded like a GTS.
I guess given it has the GTS engine, that's not that surprising.
alfatwo
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Yep, shame it was never sold in volume at £80k as a Maserati.
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I've been told the coupe originally sold for £110,000 and the spider for £174,000.
I've also been told by some experts on the 8C that the differing driving characteristics of the coupe and the spider reported by the motoring press at the time are very very marginal unless you track the car and that the steel brakes of the coupe against the carbon ceramic brakes of the spider are preferable and much easier and better to use unless you again decide to track the car.
I've also been told by some experts on the 8C that the differing driving characteristics of the coupe and the spider reported by the motoring press at the time are very very marginal unless you track the car and that the steel brakes of the coupe against the carbon ceramic brakes of the spider are preferable and much easier and better to use unless you again decide to track the car.
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But a hellishly expensive mod
Yes but from the few people I talked to that have driven 8C's back from Europe the carbon ceramic brakes found on the spider are much harder to use than the steel ones on the coupe in the sense that they need a very firm stab of the pedal and the only benefit you will have is on the track where they are literally fade resistant.
Exactly Andy. In fact most spiders are selling at below their original selling price. It could well be that the coupe is seen as the more collectible of the two.