LaFerrari Aperta fetches record $12.4m at auction
Mystery buyer purchases swansong Aperta at charity event – sight unseenA historically-significant LaFerrari Aperta has sold for $AUD12.4 million at a charity auction event – the most money ever fetched by a 21st century vehicle.
A mystery buyer went all-out in a bidding war with at least 12 other auction attendees at the weekend for the very last Aperta hypercar produced, the vehicle selling for twice the amount officials had expected.
Auction house RM Sotheby’s said the buyer, whose identity remains under wraps, saw nothing but a digital mock-up of the 210th and final drop-top to be produced by the Prancing Horse. That hardly dimmed the eager buyer’s enthusiasm.
The car's entire $AUD12.4 million sale price will be donated to Save the Children, an international youth education charity, RM Sotheby's said.
The Aperta employs the same 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 engine as its coupe sibling combined with a 120kW electric motor in a Formula One-style HY-KERS configuration. Together, the total petrol-electric system produces 708kW and 700Nm in coupe guise, a factor which will lend the Aperta a 0-200km/h time of less than 7.0sec.
The distinguishing difference between coupe and convertible is a carbon-fibre roof panel which is said to enable the same level of torsional rigidity as the regular LaFerrari (which ended production in 2015). Ferrari offers the Aperta with a soft-top roof or a removable hard-top made of carbon-fibre.
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