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The top 1. 00 most expensive cars of all time. UPDATED: May 3. 0, 2. This synopsis of the 1. It's little wonder that Mc. Keel Hagerty, founder of the world's largest classic car insurance company, recently referred to the Ferrari 3. S Spider Scaglietti that sold for US$3. February 2. 01. 6 as a .
Now we're presuming Hagerty's . That is, 4. 1 percent of the world's 1.
Ferrari 2. 50 GT platform. Mercedes- Benz is the next most prominent marque with eight cars on the list ahead of Bugatti (7), Alfa Romeo (4), Ford (3), Jaguar (3), Bentley (2), Jaguar (2), Rolls- Royce (2) and Shelby (2). Aston Martin, Delahaye, Duesenberg, Porsche and Talbot- Lagoeach have one car in the top 1. The single model with the most entries in the top 1. Ferrari 2. 50 GT California Spider, with no less than 1. Even the most recently produced car in the top 1.
Ferrari, a 2. 00. Enzo, followed by two Mc. Laren F1 cars. There will undoubtedly be more Mc. Larens added to this list in the coming years as the Mc. Laren F1's star is rising rapidly and as one of automotive history's landmark cars, it will appeal even more to new generations of collectors as it drives to perfection, and has all those modern conveniences which take the edge off bare bones performance motoring.
America dominates the marketplace. The annual Monterey Car Week Festival which surrounds the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is now clearly the epicentre of the collector car universe. Monterey Car Week with January's Scottsdale auctions in Arizona the second most prominent single venue (1.
American sales across all venues accounting for 7. Sales in other countries are apportioned 1.
U. K., six to Italy, five to Monaco and three to France. RM- Sotheby's sold more than half the cars in the top 1. RM- Sotheby's dominates the top 1. Gooding & Company (2. Bonhams (1. 4), Artcurial (3), Mecum (2) with Christies and H& H having sold one each. This listing is continually updated as we track the key auctions around the world.
The prices contained on this list have been standardised in American dollars (USD). If a car sold elsewhere, we've converted the GBP, EUR or FRF to USD on that day and rounded it to the nearest dollar. Finally, this listing may be inaccurate in some regard. We've been tracking the marketplace for 1.
Our aim is accuracy so that we can keep our valued readers well informed. Official Bonhams Auction Page. The first sale at auction of a Ferrari 2. GTO for many years created intense international interest at Pebble Beach in 2. The rumor mill tends to report really big dollar sales in the dealer sector and in recent times it had been working overtime and the word on everyone's lips has been 2. GTO. In February 2.
Ferrari 2. 50 GTO changed hands privately to become the most expensive car ever sold with a price of US$3. Then, just a few months later, a 1.
GTO sold for US$3. GTO sold for US$5. As mentioned, the sale of the GTO returned the automotive auction record to Ferrari on the 2.
Enzo Ferrari). The full story can be found here. Mike Hawthorn (World F1 champ in 1. Heures du Mans, setting the first lap record in the history of the event of over 2. The car has many more prestigious races to its name including the Swedish Grand Prix and Venezuela Grand Prix in 1. Cuba Grand Prix, which it won in the hands of racing legend Sir Stirling Moss in 1.
The full story can be found here. Mercedes- Benz has a history of competing at the highest level of motorsport, trying out a host of new technologies, winning big, then retiring. The company returned to Grand Prix racing in 1. World F1 title and the World Sportscar championship, achieved everything it set out to do inside two years, then shut it all down.
Only fourteen W1. R machines ever existed. Ten still exist, three are in museums and six remain inside Mercedes- Benz.
That leaves this Silver Arrow W1. R (chassis 0. 06/5. Mercedes- Benz Silver Arrow in private hands. The very recent (2. F1 cars of Schumacher, Rosberg and Hamilton all remain inside Mercedes- Benz too. This car is also a technological gem, having been built with futuristic thinking specifically to win world Formula One titles, the W1. R won two inside 1.
The engine is a 2. Fangio won several Grand Prix races in this vehicle including famous back- to- back victories that sealed his 1. Formula One driver's title.
For those who know the name but not the deeds, Fangio's racing years were largely stolen by WWII. When he drove his first F1 race, he was 3. Formula one races, five driver titles with four teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes- Benz and Maserati), and still easily retains the highest winning percentage of any driver in F1 history at 4.
The full story of both the car and the driver can be found in our in- depth write up when the Silver Arrow took the world record. Ferrari's ultimate goal was to put the best driver in the best car and win the 1. World Sportscar Championship. This car was one of several identical prototypes and it helped win titles for Ferrari in 1. Official RM- Sotheby's Auction Page. When North American Ferrari importer (and Le Mans 2. Hour winner) Luigi Chinetti said to his friend Eddie Smith, .
Do you want one? Eddie bought one of the ten N. A. R. T. Official RM- Sotheby's Auction Page. Our preview of the auction of this 1. Ferrari 2. 75 GTB/C Speciale suggested it would become a top 1. The hand- built 2.
GTB/C incorporated lightweight aluminum bodywork and a Tipo 5. That impressive bit of power was put to the road via a 5- speed manual transaxle gearbox that worked in conjunction with a four- wheel independent suspension set up, and disc brakes on all corners. Official RM- Sotheby's Auction Page.
This car was the first D- Type provided by the Jaguar factory to a private racing team, and was delivered to its Scottish owners, Ecurie Ecosse, on May 5, 1. It didn't make the start of the world's most important race that year due to a crash in practice. In 1. 95. 6, the Ecurie Ecosse D- Type was up against some seriously stiff competition. On top of the factory- backed Jags, the Scottish D- Type would have to beat entries from Aston Martin and Ferrari. Early in the race, two of the factory- backed Jags were wiped from contention in an accident, and the third struggled with fuelling issues.
That left the door open for the privateer team of Ninian Sanderson and Ron Flockhart in this car to make history, and it crossed the line in first ahead of Stirling Moss and Peter Collins in an Aston Martin DB3. S. That is, this car won Le Mans, and that kind of provenance is rare indeed.
Our preview of the auction told the full story. Adult Dating Application. Official RM- Sotheby's Auction Page. The ultimate Italian sports car of its generation, this car is one of 1.
Touring Spiders, the first . That's Artcurial's Matthieu Lamoure and Pierre Novikoff who came across the remarkable treasure trove of rare automobiles on a provincial farm in the West of France. Is it any wonder they're grinning - they just found a Ferrari California Spider in a barn. That's it behind them being used as a storage shelf for old magazines. The California Spider was just one of many cars found that day including significant models from many of the legendary marques in automotive history: Bugatti, Hispano- Suiza, Talbot- Lago, Panhard- Levassor, Maserati, Ferrari, Delahaye, Delage.
Along with the famous manufacturers, many of the bodies were built by the most celebrated coachbuilders of the period, such as Million & Guiet, Frua, Chapron and Saoutchik. No less than three Saoutchik- bodied Talbot Lago T2. Grand Sport A. Full story. To picture the event, think of famous road races such as the Mille Miglia or Targa Florio on both steroids and acid. The race was twice as long as the Mille Miglia, and with no separation from the public.
In five runnings of the Carrera Panamericana, 2. Official Gooding & Co Auction Page. One of nine alloy- bodied LWB California Spiders with covered headlights, disc brakes, and full competition specification.
The car's race record includes fifth overall at the 1. Hours of Sebring and it won a Platinum Award and the Competizione Cup at the 2. Cavallino Classic. Official RM- Sotheby's Auction Page. Only 3. 4 LMs were ever built, including the car that won the race it was built to win (the 2.
Hours of Le Mans, hence the name), becoming the last Ferrari to do so. LMs rarely appear at auction, and those that do have made the top 1. This particular car had never had a major collision and retained all of its original mechanical components. Formerly part of the Matsuda Collection, Ferrari Classiche certified, and shown at the 1. Earls Court Motor Shows, this . It was delivered new to famous industrial designer Gianfranco Frattini, and appeared in the Academy Award- winning movie Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. It's quite likely Gunther courted his second wife, Brigitte Bardot, in this car.
Official Gooding & Co Auction Page. We elected to use a composite image of this car because it is so very . This is a genuine one- of- a- kind 2. GT SWB Berlinetta Speciale designed by a collaboration between Nuncio Bertone and a 2. Giorgetto Giugiaro and built by Nuncio's legendary house of Carrozzeria Bertone as his personal car.
Inspired by Ferrari's . Auto Italiana. A revised design was implemented by the time the car (3.
GT) was displayed as the centrepiece of the Bertone stand at the Torino Auto Show in November, 1. Despite all the accolades Nuccio's Berlinetta Speciale received during its tour of the motor show circuit, Enzo Ferrari never formally acknowledged the car that had so beautifully re- imagined his classic 2. GT SWB, Bertone was never engaged by Maranello and Ferrari production cars remained built or designed almost exclusively by Bertone's Torinese rival Pinin Farina.
This car was offered publicly for the first time in its history. Official Gooding & Co Auction Page. A previous holder of the world auction record, this Ferrari Testa Rossa debuted at the 1. Nurburgring 1. 00. Testa Rossa – the original prototype and rolling testbed for the 2.