The long version

The engine-out major service is a rite of passage every F355 owner budgets for before they buy, not after, which self-selects for people serious enough about the gated manual and the redline to accept that math going in. That seriousness shows up as short annual mileage rather than none at all — these aren't garage queens so much as cars driven in careful, deliberate doses, taken out for the drive rather than the errand. Values have climbed steadily for two decades as the analog-Ferrari premium compounds, but the service bill keeps the ownership pool small enough that speculation hasn't fully taken over.