Ferrari Enzo becomes most expensive car ever sold in online auction | GRR
There’s not much you can’t buy over the internet these days – as we have all discovered during lockdown. But would you fire up your laptop from your armchair and splash out two million pounds to buy a classic car? Someone did just that… and in the process set the world record for the most valuable car ever sold in an online auction. No surprise, it was a Ferrari.
Online auctions have come into their own in the past couple of months as the COVID-19 pandemic closed down auction venues you could attend in person. But auctions have still very much been “live” and none more so than RM Sotheby’s “Driving into Summer” sale which saw the hammer finally fall on 29th May.
Lots of cars didn’t sell but many did including a brace of Ferraris. Top lot and new online record holder was a 2003 Ferrari Enzo which sold for US $2,640,000 – or around £2,116,500 – including the fees. Close behind was a 1985 288 GTO, the 130th of 272 cars produced, which sold for $2,310,000.
The GTO has driven 23,555km in the hands of its three owners whereas the Enzo from 20 years later has covered fewer than 1,250 miles (despite it recently having a 25,000-mie service!).
Both are Maranello classics of course, important and rare models that in their respective eras represented state-of-the-art supercars. They would have sold anywhere. But that they did so in an online auction conducted in the virtual world is a telling sign of the times.
You can see the cars from the RM sale that are still available here.
Images courtesy of RM Sotheby’s.