The most valuable car for sale in Las Vegas on Halloween night has traveled 106 miles in twenty-nine years. The 1997 Ferrari F50 at the top of Broad Arrow’s Las Vegas Auction was delivered new in England in the final year of F50 production, and it has been waiting ever since. Its Rosso Corsa paint is the paint it left Maranello with. So is everything else.
On Saturday, October 31, Broad Arrow returns to Wynn Las Vegas for its second sale as the official auction partner of the Concours at Wynn Las Vegas. The complete catalog, released October 23, runs to 86 cars. Read from the top, it doubles as a price map of where the collector market now lives. The ten lots Broad Arrow chose to feature carry low estimates that add up to $70 million on their own, and the average model year across the whole sale is 1996. The old cars and the new cars are chasing the same money.
A new F50, twenty-nine years late
The F50 is chassis 107165, the 334th of 349 built, and one of about 25 delivered new to the United Kingdom through Maranello Sales Ltd of Egham, Surrey. The dealer decal is still on the windshield. Under the rear deck sits a 4.7-liter V12 making 513 horsepower, derived from Ferrari’s 1990 Formula 1 engine and paired with a six-speed gated manual. There is no hybrid system, no paddle shifter, no screen. The car comes with its removable hardtop, its three-piece Schedoni luggage, and a pair of J.P. Tod’s driving shoes made for whoever took delivery in 1997.
“This is certainly the lowest mileage example of an end-of-an-era supercar,” said Alexander Weaver, Broad Arrow’s vice president and senior car specialist. “For serious collectors, this is as close as anyone can get today to taking delivery of a brand new F50.” The estimate, listed only as in excess of $20,000,000, asks the room to reset the model’s record book. The F50’s public auction record is $14,575,000, paid in August for a yellow 1996 car at Mecum’s Monterey sale. A 252-mile example cleared $12 million in January. Broad Arrow’s car has covered fewer miles than either, and its estimate starts more than $5 million above the record.
Ferrari holds the top of the catalog
The second-highest lot is also a Ferrari, and it could hardly be more different. The 2025 Daytona SP3, estimated at $16,000,000 to $18,000,000, is the second model in Ferrari’s Icona series, finished in a Tailor Made shade called Verde Francesca over black Alcantara and mustard-colored upholstery. It shows 81 miles and comes from its original owner, one of 600 built. Below it sit the two halo cars that separate the F50 from the SP3 in Ferrari’s own timeline: a 2014 LaFerrari at $8,500,000 to $10,000,000 and a 2003 Enzo at $6,500,000 to $8,500,000, the Enzo one of 111 delivered new to the United States.
The one car in the top group with no prancing horse on it may be the most romantic object in the sale. The 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV, estimated at $6,000,000 to $7,000,000, is chassis 4936, one of 150 examples of the final and most powerful Miura. It wears its factory-original silver over black leather, keeps its numbers-matching 3.9-liter V12, and was recently imported to the United States after a restoration by Lamborghini specialists. Fifty-five years old, and it is the bargain of the front row.
The modern cars are not the supporting act
Weaver called the sale “one of the most exciting and one of the most modern offerings the collector car market has seen,” and the lower half of the featured list backs him up. A 2023 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, one of roughly 80, carries an estimate of $4,300,000 to $4,700,000, with nearly 1,600 horsepower, under 1,900 miles, and more than $380,000 in factory options. A 2015 McLaren P1 GTR, a track car converted for road use by Lanzante, is estimated at $3,200,000 to $3,500,000 with 433 miles showing. A 2019 Koenigsegg Regera follows at $2,500,000 to $3,000,000.
Weaver has noticed who is buying. Younger collectors, he said, are “seeking a return to an analog driving experience,” even as the newest hypercars push further into hybrid power and software. Las Vegas will test both appetites in one room, on one night. The F50 arrives with its luggage unworn and its driving shoes untouched, exactly as delivered in 1997. Twenty-nine years of not being driven is the whole of its value. On Saturday, the room puts a number on that.
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