Other million-pound cars in the amazing collection included a 2015 Koenigsegg One:1 (£3.76m), a Ferrari Enzo (£2.54), a Ferrari LaFerrari (£1.60m), a Porsche 918 Spyder (£1.27m), an Aston Martin One-77 (£1.27m), a Bugatti Veyron (£1.07m), a McLaren P1 (£1.03m) and Porsche Turbo S Leichtbau, (£940,098).
All of them, along with other high performance sports cars and luxury limousines, in total raised 23.4m Swiss francs, or around £19.1m – almost twice what Bonhams had estimated the sale would make. The collection was being sold by the state of Geneva, which is donating the proceeds of the sale to charity – believed to be for funding social programmes to help people in Equatorial Guinea.
It was the son of that country’s president who put the collection together, after a supercar-buying splurge epic in its scale. It has since been shown that Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue used state funds to pay for his supercar obsession. After a corruption investigation into the playboy politician’s lavish taste, the cars were confiscated in 2016 by the authorities in Switzerland, where they were stored, and Mangue has since been convicted in France of misappropriation of state funds.