The Six-Mile Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Has Just Sold For Big Money

Remember that Porsche 964 911 Carrera RSR 3.8 we told you about? The ultra-rare collectors’ item has just sold for a tear-jerking $2.25 million.

We say tear-jerking because it has only covered six miles from new. The Can-Can Red red leather, which covers everything from the seats to the dashboard and door trims, has barely ever been touched, rubbed or even sat on.

The RM Auctions sale at Villa Erba on Saturday saw the 1993 car sell for the equivalent of just over £1.75m. Not a bad return for a car that was bought specifically as an investment piece, as much as it pains us to see it going unused.

The 3.8-litre motorsport-derived engine pushed out around 345bhp, which made it good for a 0-62mph sprint of just 3.7 seconds, as tested in the real world by Car & Driver magazine. That made it faster than the Ferrari F40, at the time.

The odd mucky coating you can see on the RSR in the pictures isn’t the grime of decades, accumulated as if the car had been left out under some trees for all this time. It’s actually Cosmoline, a special rust-inhibitor that was applied at the factory as per the buyer’s request.

We’re gutted that this glorious old machine has never turned a wheel in anger, as it and its 50 brothers were designed to do. But there’s not a lot we can do about it, short of crowdfunding enough cash to convince the new owner to part with it again…