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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on May 04, 2026, 10:45:31 PM
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...Ferrari... ???
This Japanese Collector Bought a Ferrari LaFerrari Early and Paid $200,000 to Keep It Running
The story of one man's legendary Ferrari collection takes a jaw-dropping turn when the battery bill arrives.
There are car collectors, and then there are people who seem to operate on a completely different wavelength entirely. Mr. Mera, a Japanese collector featured in a recent Daily Driven Exotics YouTube video, firmly falls into the latter category. His private showroom reads like a Ferrari greatest-hits album: an F40 LM, an F50, an Enzo, a LaFerrari, and a handful of exceptionally rare Lamborghinis. These are not impulse buys. These are calculated, passionate acquisitions made decades before most people understood what they were worth.
What makes his collection particularly fascinating is not just what he owns but when he bought it. Mr. Mera reportedly acquired some of these machines at prices that look almost embarrassingly low by today's standards. The Ferrari F40, the Enzo, the LaFerrari: each of these cars has appreciated dramatically since he first took ownership, a testament to both his patience and his instincts. He keeps meticulous maintenance records, stores everything with obsessive care, and in some cases still has original accessories that have never even been unboxed.
But every great collection eventually comes with a story that stops people in their tracks, and in this case, it arrives in the form of a single maintenance invoice. Mr. Mera recently had to replace the hybrid battery in his LaFerrari. The final bill? Approximately 32 million Japanese yen, which converts to roughly $200,000 at the current exchange rate. For most people, that is not a car repair. That is a house.