Ferrari Enzo Sets Record For The Most Expensive Car Sold In Online-Only Auction

How much would you be willing to spend on a car without actually seeing it in person? Each would have a different answer, but one collector ended up paying $2,640,000, including a buyer’s fee, for a 2003 Ferrari Enzo at an online auction.

The gorgeous Italian supercar, which is one of only 400 ever made, including the one donated to the Vatican for charity puproses, was sold over the world wide web, as auction houses had to reorganize in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, by RMSothebys, as part of their ‘Driving into Summer’ event organized between May 21 and 29.

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The official estimated selling price was $2.6-$2.9 million, so what’s the big news here? Not the price, of course, but the fact that the Enzo set a record for the most expensive car to have ever been sold “in a dedicated online-only collector auction to date”. Mind you, it was nearly dethroned by another Ferrari, a 1985 288 GTO, which fetched $2,310,000 during the sale session that took place last Friday.

This Enzo has only 1,250 miles (2,012 km) on the odo and looks just as good as when it left the factory floor 17 years ago. Despite being an old timer it’s still very fast, even by today’s standards, with the 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) sprint taking just a little over three seconds and a claimed top speed of 217 mph (350 km/h), although it was clocked at more back in the day.

The mid-mounted 6.0-liter naturally aspirated V12 kicks out 651 horsepower (660 PS / 485 kW) and 485 pound-feet (657 Nm) of torque, which are channeled to the rear wheels via a six-speed automated manual transmission.