A 1997 Ferrari F50 with 106 miles on its odometer goes to auction on October 31, and Carscoops reports that it is expected to sell for more than $20 million. That would beat the public-auction record for an F50 by more than a third, a record that stood at $14.575 million as recently as August. The car, chassis 107165 and build number 334, was delivered new in the United Kingdom and then parked for almost 30 years.
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The car Broad Arrow is selling
Broad Arrow Auctions is offering the car, and Carscoops describes it as likely one of the lowest-mileage F50s in existence. The Ferrari is a final-year 1997 model finished in Rosso Corsa over a Nero interior with Rosso seat inserts, and it comes with its original removable hardtop, driving shoes, a three-piece Schedoni luggage set, and the original tools and covers. Carscoops says the original owner never drove it; the mileage therefore reflects delivery and storage rather than use. The car then sat parked for almost 30 years, a history that accounts for its condition.
The auction house’s own lot page for the car carries the full catalog entry, but that page could not be opened for this article, so the details here follow Carscoops. The report does not name a venue and gives no formal estimate range beyond the expectation of more than $20 million.
How far F50 prices have moved
The expected price is a jump even in a market that has already leapt. Carscoops notes that as recently as 2024 most F50s at public auction sold for $4 million to $5 million, and that prices of pristine cars have roughly quadrupled in three years. The current record is a yellow Giallo Modena car that Mecum sold for $14.575 million in Monterey in August, according to Dupont Registry’s results roundup, which says only 31 F50s were painted that color.
The Mecum result was itself the second F50 record the auction house set in 2026, after a $12.21 million sale at Kissimmee in January, according to the same roundup. Records have been falling roughly every few months, which is why a forecast of more than $20 million, while startling, is not out of line with the direction of travel.
Other recent sales sketch the climb. A red F50 once owned by boxer Mike Tyson, showing 6,196 miles, brought $12.105 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, according to the RM Sotheby’s lot record. A car formerly owned by golfer Ian Poulter, with 252 miles, sold for $12.2 million in January. Ralph Lauren’s former Giallo Modena car, with about 5,400 miles, sold for $9.2 million in August 2025, a sale Carscoops says appears to have reset the benchmark.
That last car had been estimated at $6.5 million to $7.5 million by RM Sotheby’s, a range Carscoops described at the time as roughly a million dollars above the earlier record of $5,532,500 for a car with 1,351 miles. A decade ago, an F50 could be bought for under $1.5 million.
Set against those results, the expectation is large. More than $20 million is more than double the $9.2 million the Lauren car brought in August 2025, and it is four to five times the $4 million to $5 million that most F50s fetched in 2024. A buyer would be paying roughly $5.4 million more than the current record for a car whose odometer shows a fraction of the miles on the Mecum record holder’s 7,253 kilometers.
What buyers get for the money
Ferrari built 349 F50s from 1995 to 1997, which makes the car rarer than the F40, the Enzo or the LaFerrari. Its engine is a 4.7-liter naturally aspirated V12 derived from the 3.5-liter unit in Ferrari’s 1990 Formula 1 car, making 512 horsepower at 8,000 rpm and 347 pound-feet of torque at 6,500 rpm, as Carscoops detailed in a 2020 profile.
Driving it is a different matter from owning it. Tiff Needell, reviewing an F50 in coverage Carscoops published in 2020, called the gated six-speed manual a pleasure and the steering beautifully direct, and concluded that it was the closest thing to a Grand Prix car on the road. A 106-mile example is unlikely to be tested in that way by its next owner.
The sale date matters for readers following the market. Because the auction takes place on October 31, nothing about the price is settled yet, and a figure above $20 million remains an expectation until bidding ends. Estimates for trophy cars have proved low as often as high lately: the Lauren car’s $6.5 million to $7.5 million estimate was exceeded by well over a million dollars.
That tension defines the sale. A collector paying more than $20 million is buying an object that has hardly been used rather than a car in any ordinary sense, and the October 31 result will show whether the market values unused condition at a premium of more than a third over the best driven examples.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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