Why ferrari car is so expensive ?

 It's the ultimate symbol of wealth, or douchebaggerydepending on your personal tastes. Ferraris have been world renowned as the topluxury sports car brand in the world for almost eight decades, and the tell-tale sharp anglesof its most modern high end models are impossible to miss. Ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars,to a whopping seventy million dollars, a Ferrari is the ultimate status symbol- but why inthe world are Ferraris so expensive? 

Ferrari has its origins with Enzo Ferrari,who created a racing car manufacturing plant way back in 1929. Originally Ferrari had no interest in buildingroad automobiles- or cars for use outside of a race track- and focused exclusively onbuilding the finest racing cars that a wealthy gentleman racer could afford. With the outbreak of the second world war,Ferrari left the world of race cars briefly, and created a manufacturing company that specializedin building machine tools and aircraft parts. Unable to resist the old urge to build fastcars though, Ferrari had a prototype built, the Tipo 815. 

Unfortunately due to the world at large beingat war, the Tipo's premier race was largely ignored. Eventually Ferrari's factory would be bombedby the allies, and after the war it was rebuilt to focus on regular automobiles. Enzo Ferrari grudgingly agreed to build commercialcars, but only to fund his beloved racing team, Scuderia Ferrari. This racing team would go on to be the mostsuccessful in history, winning numerous Grand Prix events and fueling the legend of theFerrari name. Soon, Ferrari started building luxury sportsautomobiles, and thanks to the success of its racing team, was able to charge a heftypremium- a practice that lasts to this day. So the first answer as to why Ferraris areso expensive should be immediately obvious.

 When you're buying a Ferrari, a large partof the cost goes towards you in effect licensing the legendary Ferrari name for your personallife. Ferrari is a global status symbol, and whenyou buy a Ferrari it doesn't matter what street in the world you drive it on- everyone whosees it will instantly know that you have a ton of cash and probably very little personality. But hey, you don't need personality when you'vegot the cash to drive a Ferrari around. You may not be a legendary race car driverwith nerves of steel, but once you're behind the wheel of a Ferrari none of that will matter.

 You'll immediately join the ranks of the mostelite race car drivers and mysterious international spies, and probably end up wrecking your brandnew Ferrari like a disturbingly large number of drivers do. That's the other thing about Ferraris, theyare known as supercars for a reason, and pack more horsepower into a vehicle than any civilianin the world actually needs. The 2016 Ferrari LaFerrari- which we feelis a highly redundant name- clocks in at a whopping 950 horsepower, and can acceleratefrom zero to sixty in 4.8 seconds, which is perfect for destroying your vehicle on a guardraillike a driver in England recently did. Compare that with a much more economical ToyotaCamry which ranges from 203 to 206 horsepower and you can see why Ferrari itself often warnsagainst inexperienced drivers purchasing their vehicles. The second reason why Ferraris are so expensive,is that they are very unique cars. 

When you have a global brand name like Ferrarithat fetches hundreds of thousands of dollars per car, you don't need to mass produce yourvehicle. In fact if Ferrari started mass producingits supercars, its total brand value would plummet, because it's just not cool to havethe same toy a million other people have. Ferrari owners are not just buying artificialpersonalities with their car, but they're buying into elite exclusivity, and being exclusiveis really the only way to one-up your neighbors in the lofty world of the one percent. Normal cars will see production numbers thatrun in the millions, and that's what helps make the miracle of horseless transportationa reality for the unwashed masses, allowing them to run their errands like buying beetsand... farming dirt? 

We're not really sure what peasants do withtheir time to be honest. Ferraris though see production numbers thatare a fraction of that, and this skyrockets their price. Toyota Camrys for instance saw sales of around34,000 vehicles in one month alone in 2018- compare that with the 1,315 total FerrariF40s that were ever built. The Ferrari 348tb saw a four year productionrun of 2,895 units, and the Ferrari 360 Spider had a five year production run of 7,500 units. Considering that each Toyota Camry costs around$20,000, depending on year and upgrades, while a Ferrari starts at $260,000 for a FerrariSpider and can get as high as $600,000 for a Ferrari F40, and you can see that Ferraridefinitely is making a healthy profit off each car.

 They may not mass-market the way that regularautomobile manufacturers do, but then again they don't need to and enjoy their statusas a niche, high-status brand. Another difference between a Ferrari and anormal car which drives up the cost is how they are made. Normal cars made for normal people are madein large factories and on long assembly lines, where machines put together the cars pieceby piece, one after the other- a soulless and monotonous 24-hours-a-day-seven-days-a-weekoperation that perfectly mirrors the empty meaningless existence of the car's futureowners. 

Ferraris on the other hand are hand-crafted,each part of the vehicle built by master craftsmen using only the finest machine tools. Each Ferrari is a labor of love, a celebrationof the incredible talent of each individual master craftsmen that took part in its construction,and those master craftsmen get paid very well. Certainly a lot better than the robot thatbuilt your dumb car. Lastly, the reason that Ferraris are so expensiveis because, well, they can be.

 Despite the staggering price tag and the ever-increasingnumber of dead Ferrari drivers scraped off the sides of the freeway, demand for Ferrarisis skyrocketing. The ranks of the global one percent are growing,and not because suddenly we're living in a world with an equitable economic system forall people, but because individuals are rising around the world who are quickly hooveringup wealth into fewer and fewer hands. 

This means that more people around the globedesperately need to prove how superior they are to you, and to their fellow elite onepercenters- and what better way to do that than to show off the new mistress, or becausedivorces are so expensive, a brand new Ferrari! That's right, Ferrari can pretty much justset its own price and rich people will beg Ferrari for the opportunity to buy one oftheir supercars. When money is no object, then the only thingthat matters is status, and it's hard to beat the status of owning a Ferrari. Just watch literally any rap video. 

Of course you could use all that wealth toboost your status as a great humanitarian, or perhaps a patron of science or the artsand invest hundreds of thousands in causes that actually helps yourself and other people-but that stuff's for nerds, and no way is it ever going to score you your third mistress. Would you ever buy a Ferrari? What other car would you buy if you had thecash? Tell us in the comments! Then go watch “Why Are Rolex Watches SoExpensive?” And if you enjoyed this video don't forgetto Like, Share, and Subscribe for more great content!