A 106-mile 1997 F50 sold for $18,705,000 with fees in Las Vegas on Oct 31, the most ever paid for the model at auction. The same day, an 81-mile Daytona SP3 brought $18,540,000 there, while Ferrari's own 2,948-mile SP3 press car sold for £8,161,250 in London.
Oct 31 was the biggest day for top-end Ferraris since Monterey in August. At Broad Arrow's Las Vegas Auction, held at Wynn Las Vegas during the Concours at Wynn, a 1997 Ferrari F50 with 106 miles sold for $18,705,000 including the buyer's premium, according to duPont Registry's early results. That's the most ever paid for an F50 at public auction. In the same sale, an 81-mile 2025 Daytona SP3 brought $18,540,000. And in London the same day, RM Sotheby's sold Ferrari's own Daytona SP3 press car, with 2,948 miles, for £8,161,250.
Our read: the rarest, lowest-mile Ferraris are still setting records while the everyday modern Ferrari market we track keeps cooling. The two SP3 prices also show how much buyers at this level still pay for low miles, though miles weren't the only thing separating them.
The car is chassis 107165, the 334th of 349 F50s built. It was sold new through Maranello Sales in Egham, Surrey, one of about 25 F50s delivered new to the UK, according to Broad Arrow's catalog. It still has its original Rosso Corsa paint over black leather with red seat inserts, plus its removable hardtop and flight case, Schedoni luggage, J.P. Tod's driving shoes and tool kit. Broad Arrow says Ferrari historian Marcel Massini documented its history and that it recently had a service and a Ferrari Classiche inspection at Ferrari of Newport Beach. Power comes from a 4.7-liter, 513-hp V12 derived from Ferrari's 1990 Formula 1 engine, through a six-speed gated manual.
Broad Arrow estimated it at more than $20,000,000. Its specialist Alexander Weaver called it "as close as anyone can get today to taking delivery of a brand new F50" in the pre-sale announcement.
You'll see two prices quoted. Early reports, including The Supercar Blog, citing Hagerty, say about $17,000,000. That's the hammer price, the winning bid when the auctioneer's hammer falls. The buyer also pays the auction house a fee on top, the buyer's premium, and duPont Registry reports the total came to $18,705,000. Both figures are below the estimate. duPont calls its numbers preliminary, and Broad Arrow's lot page still showed only the estimate on Sunday morning, so the final total could still be adjusted.
Either way, the record moved again. The previous high was $14,575,000 for a yellow F50 at Mecum Monterey in August, according to Modern Car Collector; the new total is about 28% higher. Modern Car Collector's record tracking shows how fast this has gone:
That's more than three times the record of just over two years ago. Miles still split the market, though. The same Modern Car Collector tracking shows an Italian-delivery F50 with about 37,000 miles bringing €4,842,500 at RM Sotheby's Munich in October 2025, and an 843-mile car bringing $9,790,000 at Mecum Indianapolis in May.
The Las Vegas SP3 is chassis 314846, a 2025 car with 81 miles, delivered new through Ferrari of Long Island, according to The Supercar Blog. It's a Tailor Made car in Verde Francesca over black Alcantara, with seats and door panels in a fabric Ferrari calls Mustard Aunde Jeans. duPont Registry reports a hammer price of about $16,850,000, inside Broad Arrow's $16,000,000 to $18,000,000 estimate, and $18,540,000 with fees. That's more than the $17,825,000 RM Sotheby's got in August for a 227-mile 2023 SP3 at Monterey. Only the one-off charity Tailor Made SP3 that sold for about $26,000,000 at RM Sotheby's Monterey in 2025 has brought more at a public auction, duPont notes.
The London car has a very different story. Chassis 277499 was built in June 2022 as a left-hand-drive development car, with a "Vettura Di Sviluppo" plaque between the seats, and Ferrari specified it itself: Giallo Triplo Strato paint over Rosso Ferrari leather. Ferrari kept it as a press car. Andrew Frankel drove it for Motor Sport's October 2022 issue, Car and Driver and Road & Track tested it, and it appeared on Top Gear in an episode aired Dec 18, 2022, according to RM Sotheby's catalog. Robb Report says it went back to the factory for more engineering work after its press duties. Ferrari sold it in March 2025, through dealer H R Owen, to its only private owner, who registered it in the UK.
RM Sotheby's estimated it at £7,500,000 to £9,500,000, which Robb Report and Modern Car Collector put at about $10,000,000 to $13,000,000. It sold for £8,161,250, inside the estimate, as RM's lot page and Classic.com both show. RM's lot page also marks it as a car in which RM Sotheby's has an ownership interest, in whole or in part. RM hadn't published totals for the London sale by Sunday morning.
I think there is an urgency right now for serious Ferrari collectors to buy an SP3, simply because it's common knowledge that there is an SP4 on the way. And to get an allocation for that car, many buyers believe it's necessary to own an SP3.
— Harvey Stanley, RM Sotheby's, before the sale (Robb Report). Ferrari hasn't said that owning an SP3 affects future allocations.
According to duPont Registry's preliminary count, Broad Arrow sold 64 of 84 cars, 76%, for about $92,800,000 in total. Ferraris made up about $67,800,000 of that across 25 cars, about 73% of the sale. A 5,439-mile 2014 LaFerrari brought $8,805,000, which duPont says beats the $8,695,000 RM Sotheby's got in August as the auction record for a standard LaFerrari coupe.
Not every big Ferrari did as well. A 2003 Enzo with more than 17,000 miles, a factory-replacement engine documented by Ferrari and previous bodywork, according to duPont, sold for $6,550,000 with fees, on a hammer price of about $5,950,000, below its $6,500,000 to $8,500,000 estimate. That's well short of the $15,185,000 Broad Arrow got for an Enzo at Amelia Island this year. A Lamborghini Miura P400 SV, a Bugatti EB110 GT and an Aventador SVJ Roadster didn't sell.
The modern Ferraris that sell every week tell a different story. Our index of auction prices for the 296, 458, 488, F8, 812, F12berlinetta and SF90 peaked in August, about 62% above early 2025, and was about 8% below that peak by early October, as we reported in Ferrari auction prices are cooling after an August peak. Fewer cars are selling since then. In September, 33 of the 47 Ferraris in that group we tracked on Bring a Trailer sold, about 70%. From Oct 1 to 21, 22 of 39 sold, about 56%. Special series like the Pista and Competizione are left out.
Strong cars still sell. A 985-mile 2023 812 GTS brought $801,000 on Bring a Trailer on Oct 21, after the same car didn't sell there on Aug 28.
These results say two things. First, the money at the very top of the Ferrari market is still there. Eleven weeks after Monterey, a different auction house in a different city set a new F50 record and beat Monterey's best price for a customer SP3. Those buyers aren't the same people deciding whether to pay $800,000 for an 812, and their market isn't cooling.
Second, the top end is picky. The F50 record still fell short of Broad Arrow's estimate, the high-mile Enzo missed its estimate, and several big lots didn't sell. Buyers paid most for the cars with the lowest miles and the most complete histories.
The SP3 split is the clearest example, but be careful reading it. It's tempting to put the whole gap between $18,540,000 and £8,161,250 down to 2,948 miles. Miles are part of it. But every SP3 we've tracked selling at auction in Europe has brought much less than the US cars: CHF 5,348,750 for a 2024 car with 2,933 km at RM Sotheby's in October 2025, €6,250,000 at Broad Arrow's Villa d'Este sale in May, and now £8,161,250 in London. Those prices have gone up each time, and London's is the highest of the three. So where a car is sold matters, along with its miles. What the press car's famous history didn't do was make up for its miles: it sold inside its estimate, not above it.
Our index of 395 US and Canadian Ferrari auction results peaked about 62% above early-2025 levels in August and has eased about 8% since. More cars are reaching Bring a Trailer, fewer are selling, and dealer prices are starting to give.
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