Final week, we reported on the ‘Ferrari F50 Legacy Tour’, a thirtieth anniversary celebration that gathered 20+ examples of the V12 supercar from all over the world for a scenic drive by way of the Tuscan countryside in Northern Italy. The Tour ended within the model’s hometown of Maranello, full with a lap round Ferrari’s iconic Fiorano circuit. However among the many sea of Rosso Corsa (purple) and Giallo Modena (yellow) F50s, there was one which stood out.
Completed in an understated Argento Nürburgring, this 1997 Ferrari F50, painted in silver from the manufacturing facility, is 1-of-4 out of the 349 items Ferrari constructed. This ties it with Nero Daytona (black) for the rarest road-going F50 shade ever produced. Rosso Corsa stays the preferred with Ferrari delivering over 302 items within the vibrant purple, adopted by 31 in Giallo Modena and eight in Rosso Barchetta (darkish purple). It’s value noting that the Ferrari F50 GT, with solely three in existence, is even rarer, however that may be a purpose-built race automobile that isn’t street-legal.
Coming to this explicit automobile, owned by Nicholas Brown and a part of the Lake Home Assortment from the U.Ok., is much more distinctive with its Tubi Model decat exhaust system, giving that 4.7-liter naturally-aspirated V12 an excellent sharper notice. Inside, it’s completed in manufacturing facility Nero leather-based with Alcantara, an understated spec, however one that enhances the outside silver paint.
As one in every of Ferrari’s 200+ mph halo automobiles with Formulation 1 DNA, values of well-kept F50s sometimes vary anyplace between $3.5- $4 million at this time. A automobile with a narrative to inform, just like the Giallo Modena instance (solely two delivered stateside), as soon as owned by Ralph Lauren, will likely be supplied at RM Sotheby’s upcoming 2025 Monterey public sale and is predicted to fetch anyplace between $6.5-$7.5 million. Nevertheless, the rarest colours: silver and black, with simply 4 examples of every, are true unicorns, and sit on the very prime of the F50 market. These automobiles will doubtless at all times command a premium.
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