This Ferrari F40 Was So Expensive, It Just Broke An Auction Record

For most of us, posh car auctions give the opportunity to do two things: dream of being very rich and being able to buy any car we’d like, and marvelling at the bonkers prices rare classics are fetching these days. The latter was certainly the case at Coys’ auction last weekend at the Nurburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix, where the Ferrari F40 you see above went for a rather substantial figure. How substantial? €1.12 million (just under £800,000). There are rumours of F40s changing hands privately for more, but according to Coys this €1.12 million figure represents a record figure for the car at auction.

The figure isn’t terribly surprising. This 1992 Italian-registered example has just one owner from new, and only 7881km (4897 miles) on the clock. And anyway, considering the multiple millions many older Ferraris tend to fetch at auction, £800k for what’s probably the most iconic supercar ever made doesn’t seem so bad. I know which I’d rather own…