F40 OR F50? AN OWNER DECIDES

Which is best? Karim Said has long-term experience with both

- Mark Dixon

‘AFTER I BOUGHT the F40, I didn’t have another car for many years. I put much of what I had into that car. I was living in a small apartment and stored it in a council lock-up; I certainly couldn't have afforded any really large bills. But I used it daily, I'd go shopping to Tesco in it, I drove it hard on trips to Europe, and I never had any major issues.

Karim racked up about 13,000km in his F40 during the early 2000s and he kept it for nearly 20 years. Along the way he also acquired a 288 GTO, an Enzo and a couple of F50s. But it’s telling that F50s are the only kind of Ferrari he now owns. In fact, he likes them so much, he has four.