Updated: July 17, 2026
Short answer
The most affordable way to actually drive a Ferrari is a track driving experience, where a few laps in a car like a Ferrari 488 start near $399. To drive one on real roads, renting for a day is the most affordable. Buying used starts around $155,800 before insurance and service.
Driving a Ferrari does not have to mean buying one. The lowest-cost way to get behind the wheel is a track driving experience, where you pay for a set number of laps on a closed course and packages for a car like the Ferrari 488 start around $399 for five laps. If you want the car on open roads for a real drive, renting for a day is the most affordable option. Buying is the most expensive route once the running costs pile up. Here is what each path costs and where the hidden charges hide.
A driving experience is the most affordable way to drive a Ferrari, full stop. At Exotics Racing in Las Vegas, five laps in a Ferrari 488 GTB start at $399, which works out to about $80 a lap. Longer packages scale up (ten laps runs $638, twenty laps $1,117), and a professional instructor rides along the whole time. You pay only for laps, so the entry price is low.
The engine is the reason people pay for this at all. The Ferrari 458 Italia, the model Grant Motor Group rents, uses a 4.5-liter naturally aspirated V8 that revs all the way to a 9,000 rpm redline and adds direct fuel injection, a first for Ferrari's mid-engine road cars. It makes 562 hp and reaches 60 mph in about 3.4 seconds, and near the top of the tach it takes on a hard, race-car voice. That car went on to win Motor Trend's Best Driver's Car in 2011. A track experience lets you chase that redline for the price of a nice dinner for two.
The catch is what you do not get. You drive laps on a track, not the open road. There are no keys, no full day, and no car parked outside your hotel for photos. Your time is measured in laps, not hours, and you never leave the circuit. Some Phoenix-area tracks run their own supercar laps too, so you may not have to travel to Las Vegas. For a quick taste of the car, this is unbeatable value. For an actual drive, it is a different product.
Renting is the most affordable way to drive a Ferrari on real streets, and at Grant Motor Group the Ferrari 458 Italia Liberty Walk rents for $1,499 a day. That is one price for a full day with the car in your hands: no purchase, no multi-year insurance policy of your own, and no depreciation to eat. (Rates can change, so confirm the day rate when you book.)
The 458 we rent is not a stock car. It wears a Liberty Walk widebody kit, the riveted over-fender style built by self-taught founder Wataru Kato in Aichi, Japan, and inspired by 1980s Japanese race cars. The standard kit adds about 60 mm of width per side at the rear and drops the car onto air suspension. Under that wider body sits the same naturally aspirated Ferrari V8, the last of its kind before Ferrari switched its V8 cars to turbochargers with the 488. Renting is the only realistic way most people will ever drive this exact car.
If a Ferrari day is more than your budget, the same idea gets more affordable with a smaller exotic. Grant Motor Group rents a BMW M2 Competition at $399 a day, a Corvette Z06 at $449, and a Porsche 911 GT3 at $799. Delivery is available anywhere in Scottsdale, from hotels and resorts to Scottsdale Airport; a delivery fee applies and is confirmed at booking. A refundable security hold is required before pickup, and the exact amount varies by car and is set when you book. A credit card is the best way to carry the hold; a debit hold ties up your own cash. Confirm card options when you book. To rent, you show full-coverage auto insurance active in your own name, and you return the car with the fuel level you got. Daily mileage allowances on exotics commonly land somewhere near 50 to 100 miles a day across the industry (common industry figures, not GMG's published numbers), so ask what your car includes.
A peer-to-peer platform like Turo can show a lower daily price than a fleet company, but the real cost is what you owe when something goes wrong. On Turo, the top Premier protection plan, the only one that caps your damage bill at zero, is not available on cars with a market value over $60,000, which rules out essentially every Ferrari. On an exotic, in other words, you can never fully cap what you might owe.
The numbers get worse from there. Under Turo's Decline plan, if the repair estimate tops 75% of the car's value, you are liable for the entire cash value of the car, not just the damaged panel. The liability insurance Turo includes only reaches the state legal minimum, and Arizona's mandatory minimum is just $25,000 per person for injuries and, as the Arizona DOT puts it, "$15,000 property-damage liability," figures far too small to cover harm done in a six-figure car. Every damage claim also carries a processing fee of up to $150. And a private host can cancel your booking for a fee as low as $25 to $50, which can leave you scrambling for another car hours before a birthday or a shoot. A lower sticker price that can turn into the full value of the car is not really a saving.
Buying a used Ferrari looks like the ultimate way in, but it is the most expensive way to drive one. The most affordable 458 Italia coupes now start around $155,800, down from an original sticker of $225,000 to $259,000. That purchase price is only the entry fee.
Then the car costs you money while it sits. Routine Ferrari service runs about $3,000 to $5,000 a year, and the heavier service years run $5,000 to $8,000 or more. Insurance on a car at this value runs into several thousand dollars a year on top of that. New Ferraris include a 7-year factory maintenance program, but a used 458 is well past that window, so every one of those bills is yours. Add tires, secure storage, and the odd five-figure repair, and a single owner can spend more in one year than dozens of rental days would cost.
The 458 actually holds its value well, with clean examples flat or rising rather than falling. That is good news for a collector, but it does not make the car affordable to drive. Strong resale value only pays off years later when you sell. The carrying costs land every single year in between, whether you drive the car once or fifty times.
The most affordable choice depends on what you want out of the car. The table below lines up the four routes by what you pay and what you get.
| Option | Roughly what you pay | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Track driving experience | From about $399 for 5 laps | Laps on a closed course with an instructor, no open-road time |
| Rent for a day | Ferrari from $1,499/day (smaller exotics from $399) | A full day on real roads, delivered, no ownership costs |
| Turo peer-to-peer | Varies, sometimes lower per day | A lower sticker, but capped protection and full-value liability risk |
| Buy used | From about $155,800 plus thousands per year | The car full time, plus every running cost, forever |
For a pure taste of the engine, book a track experience and pay by the lap. For a real drive on real roads, whether it is a birthday, a photoshoot, or a weekend, renting the 458 for a day is the best value, and it is the only way to drive this Liberty Walk car at all. Buying makes sense only if you plan to drive it often for years and can carry the yearly costs.
Renting is the route we point to when the day is the point, not the lap count.
Ready to put a Ferrari in your driveway for a day instead of your budget for a decade? Call or text Grant Motor Group at (623) 400-3031, or send a DM to @grantmotorgroup on Instagram, and we will deliver the 458 anywhere in Scottsdale.
Call or text (623) 400-3031 or send a DM to @grantmotorgroup on Instagram. We deliver anywhere in Scottsdale.
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