You can buy a 'Ferrari' 458 for $28K on Alibaba, just don't expect to be able to drive it

This ‘Ferrari‘ 458 Italia body shell is available from Alibaba for just $27,700 plus shipping.

It sounds like a great deal, but it isn’t.

There is, of course, a catch.

The catch is there’s no engine, no chassis, no wheels, no nothing – just the body shell.

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This ‘Ferrari’ 458 Italia on Alibaba is literally just a body shell

Let’s start with the good news, because there is some.

The ‘Ferrari’ 458 Italia body shell you see here is complete.

It comes with bumpers, fenders, doors, mirrors, and a windshield.

The seller also claims it’s a legit Ferrari, not a fake.

But this is Alibaba, so take that with a huge grain of salt.

Of course, we cannot determine whether the body shell is genuine, but the seller – an auto parts store – says it is.

Unfortunately, that’s the end of the good news because everything else, quite frankly, doesn’t sound promising.

For starters, the price does not include shipping, not to mention the fact some buyers in certain countries might run into trouble importing this.

Or even if they don’t, they could still potentially spend large sums of money on import duties and taxes.

But the real problem is the sale doesn’t include anything else, which means there’s no engine, no chassis, no wheels – literally nothing else.

This leaves the would-be buyer with two options.

They can either buy this, and then find original Ferrari engines and components, in which case the total cost would skyrocket, or they can create a kit car, which would be cheaper but, well, it would be a kit car.

When buying stuff online goes wrong

We’ve come a long way since the days of the Wild West of the internet, but it’s still absolutely possible to get hoodwinked online.

Nick MacNeill, the man known as The Inja on YouTube, once purchased a Chinese ‘sportscar’ for $31,000 but received something completely different instead.

He eventually did manage to get a refund, but on three conditions, and those were not great conditions.

Pictured below – the ‘sportscar’ The Inja received

Fortunately, that is usually the exception because, most times, you get what you pay for.

Another YouTuber, Micah Toll from the EbikeSchool.com YouTube channel, bought a cheap truck, also from Alibaba, that he wanted to use to drive around his family’s sizable land in Florida.

In this case, he got exactly what he wanted.