One-off Ferrari Daytona Sp3 Sold For A Staggering $26 Million At Monterey Car Week Charity Auction

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OK, wow! Ferrari conscionable raised a very, very, very ample magnitude of money for nan Ferrari Foundation. In July, Maranello announced that it would put a typical 2025 Daytona SP3 connected nan block, pinch RM Sotheby's handling nan gavel. This mid-engine V12 hypercar was built specifically for this kindness auction, and it received plentifulness of other goodies acknowledgment to Ferrari's Tailor Made treatment. When nan particulate cleared, pursuing what was described arsenic a beautiful lusty bidding process, nan price had risen to a whopping $26 million. That's rather a large higher than nan Daytona SP3's original sticker value of $2.2 million.

That's nan highest hammer value ever for a modern car astatine auction, and it's nan 13th most costly car ever sold astatine auction play — it was astir $700,000 supra than nan next-highest waste astatine this year's Pebble Beach auctions, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder that Gooding sold. Ferrari played this 1 rather well: nan Daytona SP3 primitively had a constricted tally of 599 examples, but this Tailor Made car, while technically number 600, was designated "599+1," pinch a plaque to beryllium it. The consequence amplifies nan occurrence of Ferrari's Icona lineup, which debuted successful 2018 pinch nan Monza SP1 and SP2, a brace of alternatively glorious and exceptionally costly barchettas.

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As we reported erstwhile nan Daytona SP3 auction car was revealed, this one-off car is distinctive. The Giallo Modena "Ferrari" lettering stretches crossed nan car's apical surface, making a connection that 1 could telephone garish, but that 1 shouldn't arsenic nan galore dollars this transaction raised will beryllium utilized to do things for illustration rebuild schools destroyed by nan horrific wildfires that struck Southern California earlier this year.

The SP3 is simply a throwback to Ferrari's racing lineage of nan 1960s. This includes nan marque's celebrated 1-2-3 triumph astatine nan 24 Hours of Daytona successful 1967 pinch nan 330 P/4, getting immoderate payback aft Ford's expanse of nan 24 Hours of Le Mans successful 1966 (Ford still scored nan triumph astatine Le Mans successful 1967, pinch Ferrari grabbing 2nd place). The Daytona SP3 carries a 6.5-liter V12 amidships, making 829 people aspirated ponies and boasting a 0-to-60-mph clip of 2.85 seconds, according to Ferrari. The powerfulness is piped done a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission to nan rear wheels.

Interior fabrics travel from recycled tires and are adorned pinch Ferrari's prancing equine motif, while nan steering file and dashboard get a carbon-fiber curen borrowed, of course, from Ferrari's F1 program.

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The auction-winning car is utterly rad, but 599+1 is, I'd wager, improbable to beryllium spotted taking a rotation astir nan block. That's for nan specified $2-million-plus SP3's that had each antecedently been sold. It will surely beryllium absorbing to spot wherever nan car turns up, and what its history mightiness beryllium from present connected out.

Ferrari continues to leverage these exotic, invitation-only models to bolster its bottommost line, nan desirability of nan SP3 Tailor Made illustration vindicating that strategy astatine a level possibly moreover Maranello couldn't person anticipated. The car manufacture is going done a reasonably chaotic section astatine nan moment, truthful it's breathtaking that what galore see to beryllium nan top car marque of each clip tin still bring location nan thrills. I was personally a tad cynical astir nan Icona cars erstwhile I initially heard astir them, but a small stationary spot clip was each it took to wantonness that crankiness.

All eyes are connected really Ferrari will discuss nan modulation from nan combustion era to nan electrical age, but for now, let's return a region to admit really bonkers a gas-burning V12 nan prancing equine tin still create. And really galore dollars specified a instrumentality tin snare from deep-pocketed collectors.

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