Hi Joel, hope you are enjoying driving your F50 in this nice weather. Two F50s sold recently here, one with very high-mileage surprisingly achieved £3m and another with high-mileage achieved £3.7m. And currently you have two low/very low-mileage ones each at £4.5m (both were offered to me a couple or so years back). What they will achieve and when, is to be seen. The key if you are an F50 seller is to be financially strong so that selling in one or one-and-a-half year later is of no concern. Dealers don’t like that as they want the sale to happen ‘now’.
To be fair, the old adage asking is not getting is particularly applicable to F50s as several have been for sale for a long time, and, there are several low mileage F50s available for the equivalent of the mid-£3ms. True, if a seller is financially strong then they can take their time selling, but IMHO it's never a good idea to have a car on the market unsold for too long because it suggests the price is too high and it dimities that car's desirability in the market. I don't speak for other dealers but personally I don’t mind a bit if a potential seller wants to wait for a better market, nowadays our Supercar buying clients have so many makes & models of similar value to choose from as options.
The F50s for the equivalent of the mid £3s I'm referring to which are in the USA where they can sell to the large USA market without any import duties or air freight.
Any recommendations for carbon fiber restoration for door panels and other removable pieces in the states. Also any feedback appreciated if the panels should just be left alone and stick with the patina. Thanks
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There was such an incredible hype in South Africa when this car was sold (I have no idea what the price was). As I have learnt selling out of SA to the UK is not particularly easy because the conversation generally is around the high import duty in the UK and the need to "adjust" prices accordingly. Hence I am not surprised it now seems to be "touring" the USA. The first owner who I knew quite well will be looking down the smile on his face.
The price circulated by the South African representative was R70,000,000, which at the time was high US$3s, or mid £3s.
I saw the car the day it arrived in the UK and over dinner with the owner I made a casual offer. But the belief was that there is more money to be made by paying transport and 2.5% import duties and selling it in the US. I don’t believe that import taxes in the UK are pertinent as the SA owner could have sold to any buyer irrespective of local duties (for example in Australia or Denmark the overall import duties would be much more than in the UK). Furthermore, the new owner ended up not paying any UK duties…
Very interesting....was sad to see one leave as its nearly impossible to bring anything back into SA.
The problem is you end up paying nearly an effective 60% import duty and you cannot import a LHD car unless by some absolute miracle you can convince the authorities its a collectable car.
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/\/\/\ One of the 9999s? On another note, RM is offering a Giallo F50, s/n 107060, via sealed bid - https://sealed.sothebys.com/YF23
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Never understood why they didnt paint the headlights cluster to match the body color. Also did i miss it, or the auction doesnt list the mileage?
In collections like the Bloodline Collection, where quality is paramount, a car is not purchased unless it is excellent on many fronts (including mechanically and driving-wise) and during the ownership period, the car is taken care of as much mechanically as cosmetically and on the other dimensions of quality Before Purchase: This car was stunning when test driven in Germany in January 2012 during my first inspection. Additionally, it was bought from the largest official Ferrari dealer in Germany who carried all necessary work to make it as good as needed mechanically to warrant them giving a full guarantee lasting a year or more. Also engine compression tests were done and sent to two other official dealers in the UK (J. Macari and Maranello Sales) for indepinspection and advise. After purchase: It has been been driven regularly and not only with a Tubi exhaust but I also installed a straight pipe for many years (no to look at the exhaust but to to enjoy high-rpm music). .
