Van Horssen Group

From the financial markets to the housing bust, there is not much good economic news out there. Despite the economy, we are pleased to see members continuing to enjoy some of the world’s best cars and more people considering the stable economic advantages of joining a Supercar Club like Van Horssen Group.

The benefits of the car club have always been there, but while things were good it didn’t seem odd to own a highly depreciating asset and let it idle in your garage. Now it does. Consequently, more people are trying to sell their exotic which causes the values to fall even further. The markets will eventually stabilize, but it is times like these that emphasize how difficult, time consuming and expensive ownership can be.

The Van Horssen Group concept takes the buy/sell dilemma totally out of the equation - giving members access to a constantly evolving collection of the latest and greatest cars. Membership is also predictable, members only spend what they want to. Exotic cars are infamous for the unexpected, be it a clutch, tires or windshield, there are numerous ways that make the car much more expensive than assumed. The variety and convenience of having the right car for the right occasion and not having to worry about it afterward goes a long way too.

Changes in the economy don’t have to take away from your passion for cars. Experience the Van Horssen Group way and see how good supercars can be. New members in May will receive up to 5 free days in the cars of their choice!

Exotic car share clubs make economic sense. They also eliminate the non-economic pains of ownership.

First, unless you are among a select few who can get your hands on some of the very, very limited new Ferrari’s at sticker, owning one super premium exotic just doesn’t make any economic sense. Owning more than one makes even less sense. You buy exotic cars and then restrict your driving because of practical use issues and the high depreciation rate on super premium cars. It costs the owner of a super premium exotic in the range of $50,000 or higher per year to own a car driven less than 1,500 miles per year. You do it because you can and want to and there is nothing wrong with that. Read more »

In 2005 I decided to buy my first Ferrari. I’d been looking at different models for years and fell in love with the 550 Maranello, the model I saw in the movie “Bad Boys II.” I finally mentally committed to buying the car and found a Lamborghini dealer in Scottsdale, Arizona that carried high end stuff around Halloween. By November the dealer called me and had found the car. He was ready and puckered up and pulled the trigger on it. It cost me $140,000 for a shiny slightly used (16,700 miles) 2000 Titanium Maranello. Boy was I excited! (The over inflated price I paid at XXXX dealership is for another blog…) So I signed my papers and had this thing at a hundred grand below the new sticker price.

My naive thought was that the car had already taken the majority of its depreciation hit so I’d be in good shape. Wrong…. Read more »