A no-reserve Miura and a 4 million euro LaFerrari headline Belgium's Zoute auction week
Once a year, the Belgian coast turns into one of Europe's great collector-car stages
The Zoute Grand Prix Car Week has quietly become one of the most glamorous dates on the European collector-car calendar, and it happens on home soil, in Knokke-Heist. This October it returns with two major auctions, and the first cars have just been announced. If these opening highlights are anything to go by, it is going to be a very special week indeed.
Two auctions, one very good week
The Car Week runs from 7 to 11 October, and it is bookended by two international sales. The Zoute Concours Auction by Broad Arrow opens the weekend on Friday 9 October at the Approach Golf grounds, and the Zoute Sale by Bonhams closes it in grand style on Sunday 11 October in a beachfront marquee opposite the Grand Casino. The bar is high: in 2025 the two auctions together brought in more than 41 million euros, with strong sell-through for both houses.
Bonhams: a no-reserve Miura leads an Italian treasure trove
The Bonhams sale is anchored by the Keller Brothers Collection, a carefully assembled hoard of mostly Italian classics from the 1960s to the 2000s, offered by a Swiss private collector entirely without reserve. Its star is a 1970 Lamborghini Miura P400 S, chassis 4578, one of just 114 built in the later ventilated-disc-brake specification, finished in Giallo Fly over black leather. Offered with no reserve and estimated at 1.6 to 2 million euros, it is the sort of car that can set a room alight. Alongside it come a 1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary, one of 657 and the version refined by Horacio Pagani, estimated at 500,000 to 600,000 euros, and an authentic 1965 AC Cobra 289 at 700,000 to 900,000 euros.
Broad Arrow: hypercars with a Belgian passport
Broad Arrow's second Zoute sale leans into modern icons, several with a proud local story. The headliner is a 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari, one of only 499 built, Ferrari's first hybrid hypercar and the successor to the Enzo; this one is believed to be one of just five delivered new in Belgium and has had a single owner from new, estimated at a mighty 4 to 5 million euros. It is joined by a 2015 McLaren P1, one of only 375 worldwide and one of only two delivered new in Belgium, offered by its first owner with just 293 kilometres on the clock, estimated at 1.4 to 1.8 million euros. Rounding out the early list is a one-off 2009 Daytona Shooting Brake Hommage by Niels van Roij Design, a hand-built reinterpretation of the Ferrari Daytona that took some 15,000 hours to create, estimated at 450,000 to 650,000 euros.
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There is real reason for Belgian pride here. Events like this used to be the preserve of Monterey, Villa d'Este and the odd English lawn, yet the Zoute has muscled its way into that company in just a few years, drawing the world's biggest auction houses and their most tempting metal to the Flemish coast. A no-reserve Miura and a LaFerrari that has never left its original Belgian owner are exactly the kind of consignments that signal a serious sale, not a seaside sideshow.
The detail we love most is how much of this is home-grown. Some of the star hypercars were delivered new in Belgium and are being offered by their original Belgian owners, which quietly says a lot about the depth of collecting in this country. You do not need a spare few million to enjoy it either: the cars are on public display for days before each sale, on the golf grounds and in the beachfront marquee, so anyone can wander up and stand next to a LaFerrari for free. For that alone, the Zoute is worth the trip in October.
