A 1997 Ferrari F50 with 106 miles on the clock sold for $18,705,000 on October 31 at Broad Arrow Auctions' Las Vegas sale at Wynn Las Vegas. That price includes the buyer's premium, and it is the most anyone has paid for an F50 at auction, Broad Arrow said in a November 2 release. It is the same car we covered before the sale, the 106-mile F50 with a $20 million estimate. Chassis 107165 is the 334th of 349 F50s built, finished in Rosso Corsa over black leather with red seat inserts. It crossed the block as Lot 139 and went to a bidder in the room, the auction house said. The result still came in under the estimate. Broad Arrow said in October that the car should bring more than $20 million. Even with fees, it landed about $1.3 million short of that mark. Motor1 noted the final total fell below the house's guidance.
Broad Arrow charges buyers 12 percent of the first $250,000 of the hammer price and 10 percent of everything above that. On a $17 million hammer, that works out to $30,000 plus $1,675,000, or $1,705,000 in fees, which matches the final total. Autoblog reported the sale at $17 million. The record it broke was only 11 weeks old. On August 15, Mecum sold a 1996 F50 in Giallo Modena yellow, one of just 31 in that color, for $14,575,000 during Monterey Car Week. The Las Vegas car beat that by $4,130,000. That yellow car had topped a January record of its own. At Mecum's Kissimmee sale on January 17, a 252-mile F50 from the collection of the late Phil Bachman sold for $12.21 million, Hagerty reported. That beat the $9.245 million paid for an F50 once owned by Ralph Lauren in August 2025 by nearly $3 million. So in about 14 months, the F50 record more than doubled.
Other F50s have run hot, too. A red 1995 car that Mike Tyson once owned brought $12,105,000 at RM Sotheby's Monterey sale in August. Top Gear pointed out that F50s traded for around $500,000 in the early 2010s. Hagerty, the company behind Broad Arrow, said in October that six of the 10 highest F50 sales ever came in 2026. Values for cars in its No. 2 condition grade were up 102 percent this year alone, it said.
Mileage is this car's edge. The yellow record holder's odometer read 7,253 kilometers, or about 4,500 miles, Mecum's listing said. Bachman's car had 252 miles. This one reads 106.
It also kept its factory removable hardtop and flight case, so it can run as a closed berlinetta or an open barchetta, Broad Arrow said.
Ferrari owned the night. A 2025 Daytona SP3 with 81 miles, sold by its first owner, brought $18,540,000, just $165,000 less than the F50. A 2014 LaFerrari set a model record at $8,805,000. The sale grossed $92.8 million with 64 of 84 lots sold, the highest total for any collector car auction held in Las Vegas, Broad Arrow said.
"We are thrilled with the results from our second annual Las Vegas Auction," said Barney Ruprecht, Broad Arrow's vice president of auctions.
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Sources:
The $18,705,000 price, record status, Lot 139, the bidder in the room, the margin over the old record, buyer's premium terms, the Daytona SP3 and LaFerrari results, sale total and sell-through, the Las Vegas record, the Ruprecht quote, and the November 2 date: Broad Arrow Auctions results release
Sold price and 106-mile odometer reading: Broad Arrow Auctions listing
Chassis number, build number, colors, UK delivery, the estimate, and the hardtop and flight case: Broad Arrow Auctions preview release
The result landing below the estimate: Motor1
The $17 million sale price: Autoblog
The Giallo Modena car's price, date, color count, and odometer reading: Mecum
The Bachman car's $12.21 million sale and the $9.245 million Ralph Lauren car: Hagerty
The 349 cars built from 1995 to 1997, the top 10 F50 sales, and the 102 percent value rise: Hagerty
The Tyson car's sale: RM Sotheby's
F50 prices in the early 2010s: Top Gear
Photos: Featured image by Paul Delapena, courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions, from the results release; odometer and hardtop photos from the Broad Arrow Auctions listing
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