Take Your Pick From The Ultimate Ferrari Auction

Picking your favourite of the ultimate Ferraris can be an arduous task. Be it the 288 GTO which preceded the halo F series, the legendary F40, the polarising yet so revered F50, the car which paid tribute to the father of it all in the Enzo or the LaFerrari, which took the prancing horse into the hybrid age. We all have our opinions, but it’s not often you literally have to choose between them. For some rich bidders, that time has come.

As part of its auction of the mind-boggling ‘Dare to Dream’ collection, starting on 31 May, RM Sotheby’s will be selling off one example of each of those cars - and better still all in Rosso Corsa. We’re not aware of this ever happening before, and it may be some time before it does again.

The 288 GTO offered here spent 26 years with one owner before being sold to pro golfer Ian Poulter, before joining the Dare to Dream Collection in 2015. The 1985 covered 16,539 miles since new, meaning its 2.9-litre twin-turbo V8 is hardly run in.

That’s been a workhorse relative to the F40 though. This is a 1990 example and has done just 998 miles since then. It’s been certified by Ferrari Classiche too, coming with that very sought-after red book and certificate of authenticity.

If turbocharging isn’t your thing, perhaps the naturally aspirated V12 bolted into the Ferrari F50 is more appealing. This one, built in 1996, has done 12,993 miles and spent a solid chunk of its life pootling around Monaco before finding its way to the UK with DK Engineering and eventually landing in this collection. It too has the Ferrari Classiche approval, and even comes with the original flight case for the removable hardtop.

For those in the US, the 2003 Enzo being offered might have extra value - being the very first to be brought over to the country. Unlike the others in this auction, it does differ ever so slightly from its factory spec with its wheels repainted grey by its second owner, the colour which they’ve since stayed. It’s sitting with 5,349 miles on the clock.

Finally, the 2015 LaFerrari has 1,766 miles on its V12 hybrid setup. It remains the most recent F-series Ferrari (although we’re expecting that to change in the next couple of years) and has that extra kudos of being one of the ‘holy trinity’ with the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918, with coincidentally both appearing in the same auction.

If you want all of these Ferraris though, the minimum estimates add up to $17,900,000 (approx. £14m). We suspect that the figure will end up far higher.