A Ferrari Daytona SP3 with 227 miles just sold for $17.8 million at Monterey
A brand new Ferrari hypercar just sold for more than an F40 and an F50 combined.
RM Sotheby's Monterey sale closed with a 2023 Ferrari Daytona SP3 taking the top lot at $17,825,000, smashing its $10-12 million estimate and becoming the most expensive non-charity Ferrari ever sold at auction. The yellow, 840 hp hypercar had covered just 227 miles.
A car built to be driven, barely driven at all
Finished in Triple-Layer Yellow with black racing stripes and an Italian flag-inspired motif, this particular SP3 left Maranello in July 2023 and was delivered to its first owner through an authorised New York dealer in January 2024. A second owner bought it in October 2025 with roughly 220 miles on the clock, and by the time it crossed the block at Monterey the total had crept up to just 227. The car carries provenance from what RM Sotheby's catalogued as “The Driver's Philosophy Collection,” and its spec sheet leans hard into the visual theatre Ferrari built the SP3 around: a carbon-fibre roof and lower body panels, painted Scuderia badges, matte black wheels and gloss black brake calipers.
The number that makes this remarkable
Under the bodywork sits Ferrari's 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12, good for 840 hp, a 0-62 mph time of 2.85 seconds and a 211 mph top speed, sent through a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. None of that alone explains a $17.825 million result. What does is the gap between that number and Ferrari's own hard-edged analogue hypercars: even at the top end of their respective estimates, an F40 and an F50 together would still fall short of what one buyer just paid for a car built in 2023. It also dwarfs other recent SP3 sales, including one that made $6.5 million in Zurich last October, though it still sits well behind the unique “599+1” SP3 that sold for $26 million in August 2025.
Part of a strong week for Monterey
The Daytona SP3 was the headline lot of a sale that saw at least 38 cars clear $1 million in its first two days alone. A 2003 Ferrari Enzo sold for $9,410,000, well above its $6.75-7.5 million estimate, while Clark Gable's 1935 Duesenberg Model JN Convertible Coupe made $9,080,000, the third-highest price ever paid for a Duesenberg. A 1937 Delage D8-120S also set a new marque record at $5,780,000. Modern hypercars and pre-war classics were both trading well, but nothing came close to the SP3's result.
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The comparison to the F40 and F50 is the whole story here. Those two cars are among the most mythologised Ferraris ever built, and a single modern hypercar with 227 miles on it just outpriced them combined. That is not really a verdict on the SP3 as a driver's car, it is a verdict on how thin the supply of naturally aspirated Ferrari V12s has become.
But the gap to the last comparable sale is what should give buyers pause, not confidence. A Daytona SP3 made $6.5 million in Zurich in October, barely months before this one made nearly three times that. A jump that size in that little time does not usually describe a market finding its true level, it describes a single result at a single auction, and single results are exactly the kind of thing that look obvious in hindsight and reckless in real time. Whether $17.825 million holds as the new floor for these cars or gets remembered as the peak of a very specific room on a very specific night is genuinely an open question.
The two-owner history adds to that uncertainty rather than settling it. A car that changed hands twice in under two years, each time with barely any miles added, was never bought to be driven, it was bought to be flipped. That works brilliantly right up until a sale like this one fails to repeat, and the next seller finds out the hard way that 227 miles and a great backstory do not guarantee the market stays this generous.
