Ferrari shatters record, becomes most expensive car ever auctioned at $34.65 million
Oh, you just have $34.64 million to spend on a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO? Sorry, it actually went for $34.65 million, becoming the most expensive car ever auctioned.
The 52-year-old Ferrari sold by Bonhams on Thursday beat the previous record of $31.6 million. Ferrari only made 36 GTOs, making them a hot commodity. Ferrari historian Marcel Massini told CNBC that the car "is one of the big prizes in the entire collecting world."
This GTO was the 19th one made, in 1962, and was originally owned by French race car driver Jo Schlesser. That same year, it came in second in auto racing's Tour de France. Sadly, it also crashed during a race near Paris, killing the driver, Henri Oreiller. After it was repaired, Italian car enthusiast Fabrizio Violati purchased the GTO, and it became part of his Ferrari museum, known as the Maranello Rosso Collection. Violati died in 2010, and his family sold his collection to investors for more than $100 million.
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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