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    Florida hosts the biggest car auction in history … and points the way to future

    Editor Times FeaturedBy Editor Times FeaturedJanuary 24, 2026No Comments30 Mins Read
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    Mecum’s Kissimmee public sale at all times kicks the 12 months away with a bang, however this 12 months it smashed a laundry record of world data: the most important automotive public sale in historical past ($441 million), the best single day in historical past ($259 million), plus world report costs for the Ferrari Enzo, F40, F50, La Ferrari, La Ferrari Aperta, 288 GTO, FXX, 275 GTB/4 Alloy, 599 GTO, 250 GT/L Lusso, F12tdf, 458 Speciale A, 599 SA Aperta, 430 Scuderia and 458 Speciale A plus the Pagani Huayra and Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach.

    The public sale did not simply see many world data set, it noticed lots of them pulverised, reframing {the marketplace} on a dozen already revered fashions. The report worth for an Enzo Ferrari TRIPLED, with many different data elevated by 50% to 200%.

    The traits on show had been much more fascinating, additional emphasising a problem we’ve already addressed this week in that there are sturdy indications of a big generational shift within the collector automotive and motorbike markets.

    Whereas Child Boomers (the richest technology in historical past) proceed to dominate the top-tier market, later generations akin to Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z are additionally rising wealthy and are actively reshaping the trade by driving up values for “trendy classics.”

    Every technology grows up with a special historical past, heroes, intercourse symbols, fashions, native applied sciences and the bed room wall posters of every age group comprise totally different aspirational objects. Fashionable classics out of the blue look HOT.

    Let’s begin with the public sale report, as a result of it affords a special perspective on the climb of uncommon cars as an asset class. Within the final decade and a half, the report has tripled.

    Gooding claimed the world record sales total for an automotive auction when it grossed $113.7 million at Pebble Seashore in 2012, with RM Sotheby’s setting a brand new excessive mark at its 2015 Monterey auction with a total of $172.9 million.

    Mecum then pushed the report whole for a single public sale to $217 million at the 2022 Kissimmee auction, extending its personal report to $234 million in 2023, then once more in 2024 when the gross whole reached $275 million.

    Though the $226 million gross take at Kissimmee in 2025 may seem to be a step backwards, it was nonetheless one of many 4 highest automotive public sale totals in historical past, and this week’s $441 million gross provides Mecum not only a new report, however all 5 of the most important automotive auctions (by gross receipts) ever held. In 12 years, the report receipts for a single automotive public sale has progressed from $114 million to $441 million.

    Kissimmee additionally broke dwell public sale attendance data at a automotive public sale (greater than 140,000) helped by its proximity to the huge Walt Disney World resort and 13 straight days of steady gross sales. One wonders how lots of the Mecum viewers this 12 months had relations protecting themselves entertained at the adjacent entertainment colossus.

    It is the perfect state of affairs to allow dad to do his automotive factor whereas mum and the children had their very own journey, and I significantly doubt the selection of location for the Kissimmee public sale was unintentional. Dana Mecum and his crew now maintain an important automotive public sale held wherever on the planet annually, AND ditto for the most important motorcycle auction too. Congrats are so as.

    Provided that the month nonetheless has seven main car auctions to be held, there’s each likelihood that January 2026 may see a billion {dollars} price of collectible automotive gross sales.

    Scheduled for the rest of January 2026 are:
    Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale Auction (17-25 January),
    Bonhams Scottsdale Auction (23 January),
    RM Sotheby’s Arizona Auction (23 January),
    Broad Arrow Auctions Global Icons Online (23-30 January),
    Artcurial Automobile Legends (Paris 27 January),
    RM Sotheby’s Paris Auction (28 January)
    Gooding Christie’s Rétromobile Paris (29 January)
    Bonhams Paris Sale (30 January).

    It is going to be fascinating to look at the traits evident on the Scottsdale and Paris Retromobile public sale clusters to see if the trendy classics proceed their rise.

    This is an inventory the highest sellers on the world’s largest automotive public sale and the way the Mecum 2026 Kissimmee docket took a series noticed to the report books. We predict the outcomes provide some fascinating perception into the 2026 automotive investor market.

    1 | $38,500,000 | 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO

    One-of-One Ferrari 250 GTO Sells for $38.5 Million at Mecum Kissimmee

    Lot S204 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    The ‘Bianco Speciale’ is the one white 250 GTO produced throughout a run of 36 of what has change into probably the most invaluable manufacturing automotive in historical past. The V12 sports activities automobiles had been constructed from 1962 to 1964 and this automotive is considered one of simply eight right-hand-drive GTOs. It was bought by Microsoft CEO Jon Shirley in 1999 for an undisclosed worth (regarded as within the neighborhood of $2.0 million) and has confirmed to be an astute buy given the $38.5 million outcome.

    Chassis 3729GT had a profitable in-period racing profession with one victory and 5 2nd-place finishes in GT class. It was pushed in competitors by Graham Hill, Jack Sears, Mike Parkes, Roy Salvadori, Mike MacDowel, Mike Salmon and Richie Ginther

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    The worth of this automotive might simply have gone a lot larger, on condition that earlier GTO gross sales at public sale embody a 1962 Ferrari 330 LM / 250 GTO (3765LM) at $51.705 million in 2023, a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO (3413GT) at $48.405 in 2018, and a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO (3851GT) for $38.115 million in 2014.

    I Purchased a Ferrari 250 GTO for…

    This automotive was bought by totally devoted Tifoso David Lee, who posted the above youtube clip. His posting on Instagram learn as follows: I’m proud to be a part of Ferrari’s historical past ebook as the most recent custodian of this masterpiece. I’ve been gathering for a very long time now and have had many targets. The large 5 in crimson. The large 5 in yellow. The F80. However the high of the mountain, the final infinity stone of Ferrari gathering is the 250 GTO.

    I’m humbled and honored to have achieved this aim. Thanks to @mecum_auctions and my dealer @kcmvp @beverlyhillsmotoring for representing me on the public sale. Keep in mind to at all times dream huge regardless of how unimaginable the aim could appear.

    Now this automotive would not have its unique motor, however given it’s the solely white GTO and had been pushed by a who’s who of Sixties drivers, expectations had been within the $60+ million zone, with one publication pushing its estimate to $72 million, and extremely knowledgable publications citing a current personal GTO sale of $70 million.

    Is the less-than-anticipated worth an indication of generational change? Gen X, the Millennials, and Gen Z will covet totally different objects and may demand extra leisure choices than an in-period valve-radio … even with the on-board 12-cylinder orchestra. It is likely to be stunning and profitable, however it’s this automotive’s sound that gives you goose bumps.

    2 | $17,875,000 | 2003 Ferrari Enzo

    2003 Ferrari Enzo

    Lot S132 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    One of many highlights of the Kissimmee Public sale was the sale of the Bachman Ferrari Collection, one of many world’s best-known and most coveted Ferrari collections, and this fabled assemblage of pristine, low-mileage examples supplied at no reserve served up some exceptional surprises, and none moreso than this automotive.

    When the hammer lastly fell, the automotive had set a brand new mannequin report for an Enzo Ferrari at $17.875 million, considerably greater than the previous Enzo auction record of €5,400,000 ($5,867,640) set at Monaco Car Auctions in June, 2023. The earlier record-holder having been the very first Enzo produced, plus it had been owned from new by two-times World Method One champion, Fernando Alonso. Alonso bought the automotive throughout his breakout 12 months when he set his first pole place and took his first win.

    That isn’t a typo – this automotive TRIPLED the world report for an Enzo Ferrari.

    3 | $12,375,000 | 1966 Ford GT40 MkII Manufacturing unit Light-weight

    From the Apex Collection, this car is XGT-3, one of only three factory Ford GT40 MkII examples produced with a lightweight chassis and bodywork. Ford GT40 authority (who did write the book on the subject) Ronnie Spain is on record as stating "There are other MkIIs which have been fabulously restored to original configuration, but only XGT-3 is in that original condition still."
    From the Apex Collection, this automotive is XGT-3, considered one of solely three manufacturing unit Ford GT40 MkII examples produced with a light-weight chassis and bodywork. Ford GT40 authority (who did write the ebook on the topic) Ronnie Spain is on report as stating “There are different MkIIs which have been fabulously restored to unique configuration, however solely XGT-3 is in that unique situation nonetheless.”

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    Lot F188 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Thought to be probably the most unique GT40 MkII in existence, this 1966 Ford GT40 MkII Manufacturing unit Light-weight went inside a whisker of the model record of $13,205,000 that was fetched in 2025 by RM Sotheby’s for a Mk II with a profitable race report in interval that had been restored and fashioned a part of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum Assortment for a lot of a long time.

    1966 Ford GT40 MkII Manufacturing unit Light-weight

    Solely 11 GT40 MkII automobiles had been constructed and solely 9 examples survive considerably intact. Of the 9 MkIIs, most are within the fingers of collectors akin to Miles Collier, Fred Simeone and the Shelby American Assortment.

    4 | $12,210,000 | 1995 Ferrari F50

    1995 Ferrari F50

    Lot S166 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This F50 supplied one other record-breaking outcome from the Bachman Collection, this 1995 Ferrari F50, previously owned by professional golfer Ian Poulter, bought for $12.21m, smashing the earlier mannequin report of $9,245,000 set just six months ago. That automotive had been specified and liked for its first eight years by vogue magnate Ralph Lauren, and was being supplied after 22 years with its second proprietor with nonetheless simply 5,400 miles on the odometer.

    By comparability, this automotive was additionally being supplied to a 3rd proprietor, however after 31 years, the odometer reads simply 252 miles and it ticked each conceivable field, together with having been awarded Platinum on the Ferrari Classiche Concours on the 2016 Finali Mondiali at Daytona and in addition taking the Supercar Cup award on the 2018 Cavallino Traditional.

    This automotive added $3 million to the mannequin report, which had added $4 million to the earlier mannequin report final August (2025). The F50 has clearly been a blue chip funding since simply 349 examples had been produced between 1995 and 1997, with simply 56 constructed for the U.S. F50 costs have been on a gradual upwards trajectory for a few years, surpassing $5.0 million for the primary time at Broad Arrow’s 2022 Monterey Jet Center Auction.

    Since that $5,175,000 worth was paid in August 2022, 5 F50s have bought between $5.0 and $5.5 million, so current costs of $9.245 million and $12.210 million counsel the F50 is heading for public sale block superstardom.

    5 | $11,110,000 | 2003 Ferrari Enzo

    S209.1 – 2003 Ferrari Enzo

    Lot S209.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Simply 400 examples of the Ferrari Enzo had been constructed, of which 111 had been U.S. market examples. When the 2026 Kissimmee public sale started, the world report worth for an Enzo stood at €5,400,000 ($5,867,640) set at Monaco Car Auctions in June, 2023. Lot 132 noticed that world report triple to $17,875,000, then just a few hours later this automotive fetched $11,110,000, virtually doubling the day prior to this’s world report. It was a giant day for Ferrari Enzo house owners.

    6 | $11,000,000 | 2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta

    2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta

    Lot S155 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    A complete of 709 LaFerraris had been produced in restricted runs between 2013 and 2018, comprising 499 coupe fashions and 210 Aperta (convertible) variations. The world report for a La Ferrari bought at public sale was set at $7.0 million in 2016 when Ferrari auctioned a model new La Ferrari coupe for the profit the reconstruction of Central Italy within the aftermath of the earthquakes of 2016. The public sale was held together with RM Sotheby’s and in collaboration with the Nationwide Italian American Basis’s Earthquake Aid Fund. The worth achieved represented a report for probably the most invaluable twenty first Century car ever bought at public sale.

    The report for the rarer Aperta variant was set when the 210th and last LaFerrari Aperta was bought at RM Sotheby’s Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione 2017 auction at $9,989,050 (€8,300,000).

    We love charity auctions and so they carry out a beautiful win-win-win for therefore many individuals … however they’ll’t realistically be included in any information that individuals may use to make vital buying selections, a minimum of not with out warning them. So you might be warned that each earlier data (coupe and Aperta) for the LaFerrari had been bought for the advantage of charity, the place a minimum of a part of the public sale worth is goodwill and bonhomie … and bids are made in what are primarily excessive society occasions the place alcohol is flowing.

    The non-charity public sale report worth for a LaFerrari Aperta previous to this public sale was the $6,715,000 paid at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction last 16 August, 2025, with just one different Aperta ever bought at public sale, fetching $6,620,388 (CHF 5,292,500) at RM Sotheby’s “Tailored for Speed” auction in Zurich on 11 October 2025.

    Therefore this automotive almost doubled the report worth for a Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta.

    7 | $8,525,000 | 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO

    1985 Ferrari 288 GTO

    Lot S123 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Previous to this public sale, the best ever paid for a Ferrari 288 GTO was $4,405,000 at RM Sotheby’s 2022 Monterey sale, with different gross sales during the last decade having been remarkably in keeping with outcomes of $3,927,021 (€3,263,000) in 2017, $3,882,500 in 2024, $3,910,000 in 2023, $3,965,000 in 2023, and $3,918,208 (€3,464,375) in 2022.

    Therefore, the leap from $4.405 million to $8.525 million got here as a shock, although the automotive is meticulously documented since start because it was bought new by the Bachmans who picked it up from Maranello in late 1985 and have pushed each inch of the 1250 miles it had lined previous to this sale.

    Lots of people thought that Ferrari bestowing the GTO nomenclature on this automotive was a mistake – the collectors of the world simply put that hearsay to mattress completely.

    8 | $6,710,000 | 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari

    2015 Ferrari LaFerrari

    Lot S156 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    As beforehand talked about, the report worth of US$7,000,000 for a Ferrari LaFerrari coupe was set at a Charity Public sale in December 2016, and we do not give a lot credence to outcomes from charity auctions.

    The non-charity public sale report worth for a LaFerrari coupe previous to this public sale was the $5,230,000 paid at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction in 2025, and it is price taking a look at that automotive’s public sale description to see a automotive that intently approximates public sale block perfection. When it bought new, the unique MSRP for a LaFerrari coupe was round $1,420,000, however the Monterey automotive was bought with a further $127,241 in manufacturing unit choices together with Scuderia fender shields, sport exhaust, and intensive lashings of carbon fiber. It fetched its report worth in “time capsule” situation with simply 54 miles on the odometer.

    So this automotive is the brand new non-charity public sale report holder for a Ferrari LaFerrari coupe, including greater than 1,000,000 to the excessive watermark, simply because the automotive bought instantly prior (Lot 155) which set a brand new report for a LaFerrari Aperta.

    9 | $6,600,000 | 1992 Ferrari F40

    1992 Ferrari F40

    Lot S126 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Ferrari initially deliberate to construct solely 400 F40s, however regardless of an MSRP of $400,000 (5 occasions the value of its predecessor, the 288 GTO), Ferrari’s performance-focussed fortieth birthday current to its prospects created such overwhelming demand that manufacturing was elevated to an un-Ferrari-like whole of 1315 automobiles of which 213 went to the U.S. market.

    The automotive was designed to have fun Ferrari’s fortieth anniversary and was the final Ferrari car personally authorized by Enzo Ferrari. On the time it was Ferrari’s quickest, strongest, and costliest automotive however the giant manufacturing run drew appreciable criticism.

    From Wikipedia: In response to the fairly easy, however very costly automotive with comparatively little out of the odd being referred to as a “cynical money-making train” aimed toward speculators, a determine from the Ferrari advertising and marketing division was quoted as saying “We needed it to be very quick, sporting within the excessive and Spartan,” “Clients had been saying our automobiles had been changing into too plush and cozy.” “The F40 is for probably the most enthusiastic of our house owners who need nothing however sheer efficiency. It is not a laboratory for the long run, because the 959 is. It isn’t Star Wars. And it wasn’t created as a result of Porsche constructed the 959. It might have occurred anyway.”

    An F40 owned by Method One driver Nigel Mansell was bought for £1 million in 1990 to set the F40 mannequin’s first public sale report, a report that stood for nearly 1 / 4 century. Since then, all those that bought an F40 have watched gross sales mirror good-looking appreciation.

    The very best worth ever paid for an F40 previous to Kissimmee 2026 was the $3,965,000 paid at Gooding&Co’s official Pebble Beach auction in 2022, with a number of different gross sales shut behind: $3,886,250 in 2025, $3,855,000 in 2022, $3,855,000 in 2025, $3,800,000 in 2025 and ????? in 2025.

    With the mannequin report worth leaping from $3,965,000 to $6,600,000, it’s now clear that regardless of its unprecedented manufacturing determine, the F40 has generated greater than sufficient demand to match the elevated provide within the provide/demand equation that dictates public sale costs.

    That is yet one more near-perfect specimen from the Bachman Assortment that has smashed data in Kissimmee, taken awards virtually each time it was proven, and has been lovingly shepherded from the manufacturing unit gates to Kissimmee, accumulating a grand whole of 458 miles in 32 years.

    10 | $6,325,000 | 2006 Ferrari FXX

    2006 Ferrari FXX

    Lot S133 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    Launched in 2005, the Ferrari FXX is a non-street-legal, track-only, highly-evolved (860 prancing ponies) model of the Enzo, created in very restricted numbers (30) as a part of an unique R&D program for Ferrari’s most devoted prospects.

    The Ferrari FXX value €2.35 million in 2005 (based mostly on alternate charges throughout 2005, that equates to between USD $2,750,000 and $3,175,000) with the value together with membership within the unique XX program, protecting upkeep and specialised trackside help at designated occasions. The purchasers owned the automobiles, however Ferrari stored them of their possession, solely permitting them to be pushed throughout particular, curated, and factory-organised monitor occasions.

    Phil Bachman was one of the energetic and enthusiastic FXX house owners, collaborating on this automotive in 22 FXX occasions between 2006 and 2011 at 16 totally different racetracks on 4 continents.

    The automotive turned an icon as the one FXX in Giallo, and it gained awards each time it was proven. Most importantly, when Ferrari North America placed on a particular show in Rodeo Drive to have fun its sixtieth birthday in October 2014, this automotive was as considered one of 60 very particular fashions on show.

    Fetching $6,325,000, this Ferrari FXX virtually doubled the previous highest FXX auction record of $3,520,000 set by RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week in 2019. This worth additionally surpasses the best worth ever paid for the even-more-expensive FXX Evo that adopted the FXX, which is $6,060,959 (CHF 5,236,250) set by RM Sotheby’s in Zurich in October 2025.

    11 | $6,050,000 | 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    F198.1 – 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    Lot F198.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Porsche’s 918 Spyder was first proven to the general public on the 2010 Geneva Motor present as a road authorized model of the Le Mans RS Spyder racing automotive, changing into the primary manufacturing hybrid hypercar when it launched in 2013, narrowly forward of the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari. It utilized a naturally-aspirated 4.6-liter 607 horsepower V8 engine and two 140 horsepower electrical motors to provide a complete 887 horsepower pushed by means of all 4 wheels. The efficiency of the automotive was preposterous for a hybrid, and it’s 0-60mph time of two.2 seconds made it the quickest accelerating manufacturing automotive in existence.

    Maybe the last word validation of its hypercar efficiency was a 6:57 lap of the fabled Nürburgring “Inexperienced Hell.” One in all our common writers insists that “individuals don’t drive automobiles, they put on them”, so the fairly public socially-aware assertion of proudly owning a efficiency automotive with a conscience (low emissions and wonderful gas consumption) was additionally a drawcard, as was the Targa high … and never surprisingly, all 918 items had secured deposits lengthy earlier than the manufacturing completed, even with an MSRP of US$845,000 (€781,000 / £711,000).

    The $84,000 Weissach bundle supplied a automotive that was 90 lbs (41 kg) lighter, however in reducing the load of the automotive to three,602 lbs (1,634 kg) virtually every thing was modified (magnesium wheels, titanium chassis bolts, intensive carbon fiber and even thinner paint) , creating probably the most invaluable hero model of the automotive. Roughly 25% of purchasers paid the premium for the Weissach bundle, which equates to round 230 such automobiles. Lower than 300 918s went to the US, and fewer than 100 of these are believed to have the Weissach bundle.

    At public sale, the 918 and 918 Weissach have carried out past expectation and the mannequin report for the Weissach (previous to this public sale) was set in 2023 at $3,937,500 – a five-fold improve in worth for an eight-year-old automotive.

    Different 918 Weissach and customary 918 gross sales have additionally proven them to be a great funding: $3,525,000 in March 2024, $2,865,000 in April 2024, $2,700,000 (not Weissach) in August 2025, $2,690,000 in November 2024, $2,590,000 in April 2025, $2,480,000 in August 2024, $2,315,000 (not Weissach) in March 2025, $1,985,000 (not Weissach) in August 2023, $1,985,000 (not Weissach) in December 2023 and $1,980,000 in May 2019. Along with these gross sales, an additional 25 918s (principally with Weissach bundle) have bought for greater than $1.5 million throughout the identical interval.

    This public sale signifies that even larger returns are coming, as this automotive’s $6,050,000 worth raised the report by 50% and one other Weissach Spyder bought for $3,575,000, not far behind the earlier public sale report.

    12 | $6,050,000 | 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Alloy

    1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Alloy

    Lot S137 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    Broadly considered one of the elegant Ferraris ever made, the GTB and its variants attracted superstar house owners by the rating.

    The Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Alloy is a really uncommon beast. Simply 16 aluminium-bodied 275 GTB/4 coupes had been produced and they’re so intently held that they virtually by no means come to public sale.

    The final one at public sale was a genuine North American Racing Team Alloy that sold for $5,285,000 throughout Monterey Automotive Week in 2025. Previous to that, a 275 GTB/4 Alloy sold for $3,586,000 in 2021, and previous to that, the final one bought at public sale was in 2012 when a GTB/4 ‘Competizione Speciale’ with alloy body sold for $1,485,000. That’s historic historical past on this market.

    Therefore this automotive now holds the mannequin public sale report, bumping it from $5.285 million to $6.05 million.

    Remarkably, the best worth for a standard backyard selection 275 GTB/4 (330 items had been produced) remains to be properly past attain, with RM Sotheby’s having fetched $10,175,000 in 2014 for a automotive that had been pre-loved by the world’s favorite petrolhead, Steve McQueen.

    Impressed with the 275 he drove in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), McQueen took supply of his GTB/4 whereas on the set of Bullitt (1968) and it was a becoming chariot for the interval’s hottest lead man for the following 4 years. Provenance can have a large influence on public sale worth and this automotive is a chief instance, because the second proprietor of the automotive was TV star Guy Williams. Williams was the occasional fourth Cartwright brother in Bonanza (1959-1973), Zorro in Zorro (1957–1959), and Professor John Robinson within the landmark House Opera, Lost in Space (1965-1968). Williams drove it for 5 years.

    There are lots of 275 GTB Ferraris on the market with superstar provenance, because it turned generally known as the automotive of the celebrities. Ferrari 275 house owners included James Coburn, Jane Fonda, George Harrison, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Roman Polanski, Ralph Lauren, Jayne Mansfield, Johnny Mathis, Clint Eastwood, and Peter Sellers, but no-one has more influence on automobile and motorcycle prices than Steve McQueen.

    13 | $5,830,000 | 1992 Ferrari F40

    1992 Ferrari F40

    Lot S161 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    The F40 again story has already been written for the F40 that bought for $6.6 million, setting a brand new excessive worth for the mannequin. This automotive too broke the earlier world report.

    X | $5,300,000 (excessive bid) | 1965 Ford GT40 MkI

    F228 – 1965 Ford GT40 MkI

    Lot F228 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $5,300,000 however didn’t meet the undisclosed reserve worth.

    14 | $4,950,000 | 2011 Ferrari 599 SA Aperta

    2011 Ferrari 599 SA Aperta

    Lot S144 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This 2011 Ferrari 599 SA Aperta got here from the Bachman Assortment, having been stylised by the Bachmans together with Ferrari’s Personalization Division. It rolled onto the stage with simply 173 miles on the odometer, and rolled off the stage having greater than doubled the best worth ever paid for the mannequin.

    All through Ferrari’s storied historical past, one coachbuilder stands out for the work they’ve performed in styling the wares of the world’s Most worthy cars: Pininfarina. From the 250 GT to the 275 GTB, Daytona, Testarossa, and F40, Pininfarina has been liable for among the most iconic shapes ever to go away the Ferrari manufacturing unit

    This automotive was Ferrari’s tribute to Pininfarina, with simply 80 items created to honour the Turin coachbuilder’s eightieth anniversary. The SA within the mannequin identify refers to Sergio and Andrea Pininfarina (the son and grandson of founder Batista “Pinin” Farina).

    As simply 80 had been produced, the SA Aperta was supplied privately by invitation solely to a really choose band of current Ferrari prospects. All 80 had been bought lengthy earlier than the mannequin made its public debut on the 2010 Paris Salon.

    Just a few have ever bought for lower than 1,000,000 USD, with simply 4 having bought for greater than $1.5 million, and probably the most that had ever been paid for one previous to this public sale was at an RM Sotheby’s Zurich public sale in 2025 where an absolute stunner with just 6000 km on the clock fetched CHF1,748,750 (USD $2,187,511).

    This automotive took the mannequin report from $2.187 million to $4.95 million, whereas one other 599 SA Aperta bought afterward Saturday’s Kissimmee docket fetched $2,420,000 to additionally beat the earlier report.

    X | $4,600,000 (excessive bid) | 2015 McLaren P1 Spider

    S213.1 – 2015 McLaren P1 Spider

    Lot S213.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $4.6 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $4,500,000 (excessive bid) | 2018 Koenigsegg Agera RS Phoenix

    S233.1 – 2018 Koenigsegg Agera RS Phoenix

    Lot S233.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $4.5 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $4,100,000 (excessive bid) | 2023 Bugatti Chiron Tremendous Sport

    Lot S284 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    This automotive was bid to $4.1 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $4,000,000 (excessive bid) | 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta & 2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    Lot S206 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    These two automobiles had been offered as a single lot, which was bid to $4.0 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    15 | $3,960,000 | 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO

    2011 Ferrari 599 GTO

    Lot S143 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive is one other iconic mannequin in “time capsule” situation from the Bachman Assortment. It offered with simply 104 miles on the clock, having been stylized by the Bachmans with Ferrari’s Personalization Division, however the outcome was a shock simply the identical.

    Previous to this public sale, the best worth ever paid at public sale for a Ferrari 599 GTO was $2,040,000 for a car from The Ming Collection at RM Sotheby’s 2025 Monterey public sale, and previous to that, the report stood at the $1,039,000 paid for a 599 GTO at at RM Sotheby’s 2023 Monterey auction.

    Together with a 599 GTO sale for $1,187,500 (CHF950,000) in Zurich in 2025, these three automobiles had been the one 599 GTOs to ever promote for greater than 1,000,000 USD.

    From RM Sotheby’s description of the previous record holder: “Among the many many names Ferrari has bestowed upon its street automobiles, few carry the load and reverence of “Gran Turismo Omologato.” Previous to 2010, solely two fashions bore the long-lasting GTO badge: The legendary 250 GTO of 1962 and the groundbreaking 288 GTO of 1984. Each had been created to fulfill rigorous homologation requirements and have since change into among the most prized and collectable Ferraris ever constructed. The GTO designation was reserved solely for the model’s most uncompromising, performance-focused creations, machines mixing racing pedigree with roadgoing functionality. In April of 2010, the 599 GTO resurrected the intently guarded nameplate.”

    Simply 599 items had been constructed, of which 125 had been US-specification examples. At a base worth of round $410,000, they bought out instantly.

    This automotive bought for $3,960,000, virtually doubling the mannequin report, however two different 599 GTO automobiles went to public sale in Kissimmee being bid to $1,600,000 and $1,400,000 respectively, however each had been handed in as a result of they did not meet the seller’s reserve worth. Given the mannequin’s prior historical past, the temper in Kissimmee was clearly very optimistic.

    16 | $3,850,000 | 2022 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport

    S228.1 – 2022 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport

    Lot S228.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    17 | $3,575,000 | 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    S194 – 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    Lot S194 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    18 | $3,327,500 | 2014 Pagani Huayra

    S242.1 – 2014 Pagani Huayra

    Lot S242.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    19 | $3,300,000 | 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra

    F155 – 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra

    Lot F155 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    20 | $3,300,000 | 1964 Ferrari 250 GT/L Berlinetta Lusso

    1964 Ferrari 250 GT/L Berlinetta Lusso

    Lot S138 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    21 | $3,300,000 | 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertible

    S190 – 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda Convertible

    Lot S190 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    22 | $3,190,000 | 2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    Lot S148 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    23 | $3,080,000 | 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale A

    2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale A

    Lot S164 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $3,000,000 (excessive bid) | 1959 Porsche 718 RSK Middle Seat

    S265 – 1959 Porsche 718 RSK Middle Seat

    Lot S265 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $3.0 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $2,700,000 (excessive bid) | 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    S115 – 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    Lot S115 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.7 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $2,700,000 (excessive bid) | 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Coupe

    S275 – 1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Coupe

    Lot S275 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.7 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $2,500,000 (excessive bid) | 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    S178 – 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach

    Lot S178 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.5 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    X | $2,500,000 (excessive bid) | 1971 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spyder

    S195 – 1971 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spyder

    Lot S195 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.5 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    24 | $2,420,000 | 2017 Ferrari 599 SA Aperta

    2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta

    Lot S183.1 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    25 | $2,420,000 | 1963 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupe Aerodinamico

    S201 – 1963 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupe Aerodinamico

    Lot S201 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $2,400,000 (excessive bid) | 1936 Delahaye Kind 135 Competitors Courtroom Teardrop Coupe

    S215 – 1936 Delahaye Kind 135 Competitors Courtroom Teardrop Coupe

    Lot S215 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.4 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    26 | $2,365,000 | 2008 Bugatti Veyron Mansory Vivere

    S214 – 2008 Bugatti Veyron Mansory Vivere

    Lot S214 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $2,200,000 (excessive bid) | 1969 Ford GT40 MkIII

    S172 – 1969 Ford GT40 MkIII

    Lot S172 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.2 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    27 | $2,200,000 | 1931 Garwood Miss America VIII 30′

    Gar Wooden Miss America VIII with 1931 Twin Miller V16 Engines

    Lot S232 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $2,200,000 (excessive bid) | 2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    Lot S311 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.2 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    28 | $2,090,000 | 1953 Ferrari 166 MM/53 Vignale Spyder

    1953 Ferrari 166 MM/53 Vignale Spyder

    Lot S139 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $2,000,000 (excessive bid) | 1972 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spyder

    S196 – 1972 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona Spyder

    Lot S196 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $2.0 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    29 | $1,980,000 | 2009 Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spider 16M

    2009 Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spider 16M

    Lot S158 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    30 | $1,936,000 | 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta

    S246 – 2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale Aperta

    Lot S246 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page

    X | $1,900,000 (excessive bid) | 2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    S245 – 2017 Ferrari F12tdf

    Lot S245 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page
    This automotive was bid to $1.9 million however failed to satisfy the undisclosed reserve and was handed in.

    31 | $1,870,000 | 2004 Ferrari 360 Problem Stradale

    2004 Ferrari 360 Problem Stradale

    Lot S150 | Mecum Kissimmee 2026
    Official Auction Page





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