2018 Auction season highlights and new Automobili Pininfarina hypercar named ...
With last weekend's RM Sotheby's The Petersen Automotive Museum sale the 2018 auction season has come to a close. Our list of 25 top sellers is topped by the record breaking 250 GTO sold by RM at Monterey for just over $48 million. The Ferrari 290 MM that topped the this weekend's sale at the Petersen museum with $22 million also makes the top three. It slots in at a joint second with the mighty Duesenberg SSJ that found a new owner at the Gooding Pebble Beach Auctions in August. The most expensive car sold at a European auction in 2018 is this Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato. Raced in period by Jim Clark and one of just three 'super-lightweight' cars, it was sold by Bonhams at their Goodwood Festival of Speed sale for just over $13.3 million.
Due to be one of the absolute stars of the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, the upcoming, all-electric Automobili Pininfarina hypercar will be named the Battista. Powered by four electric motors, good for a combined 1,900 bhp, it will be limited to just 150 examples worldwide and priced at $2 - 2.5 million.
Enjoy the links:
1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato - Chassis DB4GT/0183/R - Ultimatecarpage.com
1956 Ferrari 290 MM Scaglietti Spyder - Chassis 0628 - Ultimatecarpage.com
2019 Automobili Pininfarina Battista - Images, Specifications and Information
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Pininfarina Coupe - Chassis 3413GT - Ultimatecarpage.com
1935 Duesenberg SSJ LaGrande Roadster - Chassis 2594 J-563 - Ultimatecarpage.com
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