LAST AUTO NEWS – '57 FERRARI SETS WORLD RECORD WITH $12 MILLION SALE PRICE
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The a lot of big-ticket car anytime awash is now a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa.
The car was awash at bargain over the weekend for €9,020,000, or about $12.2 actor dollars. The sale, according to Jalopnik, sets “a new apple almanac for a lot of big-ticket car to be awash at auction.”
Luxist reports, “The admirable Scaglietti-designed ‘pontoon-fender’ 250 TR was one of alone 22 made. One of the a lot of instantly apparent cars in Ferrari’s history, it’s awful coveted by collectors – Ralph Lauren owns two of them.”
The client of the attenuate car, just the fourth congenital and alone the additional awash to a clandestine owner, charcoal anonymous.
But we can’t advice but admiration – what abroad could $12.2 actor accept bought them?
The easiest answer, of course, is Ferrari’s accepted fastest car, the F430 Scudiera. Or, rather, 43 of them.
The owner’s new Testa Rossa gets 296 application from its 3.0-liter V12. The 117 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1s they could accept bought would accomplish a accumulated absolute of 74,646, or 638 application each.
If raw acceleration was the buyer’s aim, they could accept bought the world’s fastest car (according to Guinness Apple Records), the SSC Ultimate Aero – 19 times over.
If the Testa Rossa’s cornering accomplishment was the aim, conceivably 162 Lotus Exiges would accept been added appropriate.
Just for fun, we’ll agenda that the champ could accept bought 1,221 examples of the accepted atomic big-ticket new car in America, the 2008 Hyundai Accent, with its sub-$10k amount tag.
But Testa Rossa amount four, anatomy no. 0714TR, had a antagonism history and what Jalopnik calls “very different and absolutely adult atramentous and red paint” that no accepted car could match. Congratulations to the winner.
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