Filed under: Ferrari , Jaguar , Auctions , Classics , Performance Over three days RM Sotheby’s sold $172.7 million of vehicles in Monterey, including the highest price ever paid for a Jaguar at auction.
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Misc. Auto Shows , Ferrari , Specialty , Luxury For the first time in the event’s 64-year history, the prestigious Best In Show honor at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance has been awarded to a Ferrari . The 1954 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe seen here is owned by car collector Jon Shirley of Medina, WA, and as it turns out, has quite a rich history
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1954 Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupe named Best In Show at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
Filed under: Classics , Performance , Auctions , Lamborghini , Ferrari , Racing Of the 21 multi-million-dollar lots sold over RM Auctions ‘ two-day Monterey event, the top six were Ferraris while the top four were members of the vaunted 275 family.
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Ferrari dominant at high-priced RM Auctions’ Monterey event
Filed under: Classics , Coupe , Performance , Auctions , Ferrari This weekend’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegrance brings together some of the rarest and most expensive automobiles in the world onto a tiny peninsula in California jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. But this year, there has been one vehicle on everyone’s lips – a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO .
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1962 Ferrari 250 GTO hits record $38 million sale at Bonhams’ Monterey auction
Filed under: Motorsports , Classics , BMW , Bugatti , Chevrolet , Ferrari , Racing The entry list for all of the events in this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion totaled 15 single-spaced pages long. That’s explains how the field for this past weekend’s Trans-Am race contained 41 cars, which is a larger field than ever competed in a real Trans-Am race.
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2013 Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Filed under: Car Buying , Motorsports , Classics , Performance , Auctions , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing , McLaren RM Auctions ‘ two-day event during the Monterey car week is pretty much a matter of appetizer and main course. Friday night’s appetizer saw a trio of multi-million-dollar Ferraris, along with a pre-war Mercedes-Benz and a Jaguar D-Type. You can read all about those beauties right here .
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Second day of RM’s Monterey auction continues the million dollar madness
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2013 Quail Motorsports Gathering wows with modern masterpieces
Filed under: Car Buying , Classics , Performance , Auctions , Jaguar , Mercedes-Benz , Ferrari , Luxury , Racing RM Auctions is one of several houses holding auctions during the Monterey weekend, and Friday night’s festivities got quite pricey. Seven-figure vehicles were not at all uncommon during the first day of the two-day event, with the 1953 Ferrari 375 MM Spider, seen above, crossing the block for $9,075,000. Other big earners included a pair of rare Ferraris, a 1950 166 MM Barchetta and a 1955 750 Monza Spider , which took $3,080,000 and $4,070,000, respectively.
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Seven-figure cars highlight day one of RM’s Monterey auction
Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Ferrari Hennessey Performance Engineering, hot off the heels of its Bugatti Veyron-crushing Venom GT , set its sights on modifying one of the finer Ferrari models. The resulting HPE700 Twin Turbo 458 is a badder, faster 458 Italia with a twin-turbo upgrade that adds 168 horsepower to the already potent 4.5-liter V8
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Hennessey twin-turbo Ferrari 458 boasts 738 hp, 0-60 in 2.8 seconds
Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Ferrari The New York Times’ Wheels blog has a really interesting story on a pair of Ferraris that are set to be auctioned off in Monterey during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance . While the two cars are similar on the surface, their differing histories and Ferrari’s attitude towards one of them has led to a sort of experimental auction process. On the one hand, we have one of ten 1967 275 GTB/4 NART Spiders , in the classic Rosso Corsa and appearing at RM Auctions and seen above.
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Ferrari vs. Ferrari: Cut convertibles unloved by collectors?
