In November of 1995, this beautiful Ferrari F50 rolled off the assembly line as one of only 55 built to U.S. specs. It has been certified as only having 6,200 original miles by Ferrari Classiche Certified and was once owned by heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. It is up for auction at Gooding & Company as (ironically or purposely) lot 50 at their 2022 Pebble Beach sale. It can be found here on goodingco.com with a pre-auction estimate of $4,500,000 to $5,500,000! It has been sold several times over the past decade and has been climbing in value every year. Check out this awesome supercar and thanks to Araknid78 for the tip on this one!
The engine is a 513 horsepower aluminum V-12 that features Bosch Motronic M2.7 fuel injection. The transmission is a 6-speed manual that sends power to a limited-slip differential. The 4-wheel Brembo brakes halt the stallion and are at the corners of a fully independent double-wishbone suspension with coil-over shocks. While those features seem commonplace now, they were pretty advanced for 1995! In fact, they propelled this car from zero to sixty in 3.6 seconds and up to a top speed of over 200 mph!
According to Gooding “Inside, the cockpit was minimal and focused, with bare carbon fiber throughout, LCD instrumentation, and supportive bucket seats trimmed in leather and Alcantara.”
The lines on this car are amazing. It’s hard to believe it was designed and produced nearly thirty years ago.
In preparation for sale, the current owner sent the car to Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale for a major service. A new clutch was installed along with new tires, front suspension upgrades, and air conditioning service, along with other items. The invoice from the dealer also states the Alcantara interior panels were removed and recovered along with the front under-panels being refinished. Overall, $75,000 was spent to prep the car for auction!
Completely lacks the edge of the F40. A physical manifestation of the blandness of the 90s compared to the electrifying 80s. Makes the Acura NSX look like an even better bargain than it already is.
It’s still a limited-production Ferrari with a gated manual shifter (I’d love to drive one of those just once in my lifetime. Honda manuals are excellent too but I drive one of those every day)
His ownership sours me on this car. He was a bad man in so many ways, even before his antics when famous. Before he made his millions he used to mug old people on the street. How many lives did he badly hurt, or end? Just because someone gets rich and famous does not exonerate past evil. I wish i could be at the auction to protest this sale. Owners are thinking his past link to the car means extra dollars, but the link is not one that should benefit it. Google the man, then tell me I am wrong about him. Too bad, a cool car otherwise. I wish your staff would check these things before posting. In hindsight, it would have never made the posting.
Do you know the kind of person he is now?
Matters not unless he repents and has tried to make amends. Somehow I do not see that happening, though I would love to be wrong. Sorry, don’t mean to be preachy, but people who become incredibly wealthy and garner attention despite having evil souls tends to upset me. As a society we should demand better of our public figures. Money shouldn’t be the over riding deciding factor. That has hurt our society so much. What about right and wrong?
Were you thinking about purchasing this car?
FINALLY! We found the only PERFECT person in the world! and not judgmental and highly forgiving!
Forgiveness only comes after repentance. It makes no sense otherwise. Making a judgment does not make you judgmental, that is just wordplay. A judgement that comes after a thorough non bias check of the facts is not a bad thing. Matters not, the ultimate judgement is not of this world. My judgements are only good as opinions, the true judgment is eternal and is binding. That should frighten a lot of people, but for some reason it does not.
You’re not buying it anyway, you could feel sour until your lips cave in it doesn’t matter hahaha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCb3xeTdKQw
Too bad my workshop is full or I’d be interested. I’d have to sell one of my rusting, beat up classic American muscle cars to make room for this. Too much work
I don’t care who owned the car,I couldn’t afford it anyway!It’s just a bunch of parts! I’d buy it if it was a good deal no matter who was the previous owner.Would be concerned with it needing a new clutch with so few miles.
@Harvey. New clutch concern? Why? Mike Tyson drove it, not Mario Andretti. That should explain it all lol! Mike probably shifted it w/0 using a clutch for the 1st month till someone explained it.
that Tyson owned the car means little to nothing to me. and, frankly, for the auction estimate, I could stock my garage with classics I like. this thing is ugly.
6200 miles and 75k to replace the clutch and prepare it for auction. Mike must have driven it hard and chewed on the interior panels.
A big red hole, devouring enormous sums of cash to drive a few miles. $75,000 to service a car with 6,200 miles ….. $12.10 a mile… makes the old VW commercials (2 pennies a mile) stand out like a fog horn on a dark and foggy night. Yes, I know there is a bid difference between the F50 and the VW bug, but the F50 is still a waste of money, big time.
I wonder if insuring a car for $5.5 million would be expensive.
I noticed the F50 has both side view mirrors at least he didn’t bite one off!
Sounds like a bunch of people that can’t afford the luxury of owning this car, no matter who owned it, no matter what the cost of the repairs it’s #1 a Ferrari designed by the best in the world and limited to 55 examples! There’s no way to dispute its rareness, performance, and desirability which all add up to value in the car world! That can’t be disputed, if Jeffrey Dommer owned the car the value would still never change! The most evil people in the world are deemed iconic and great daily, politicians! They just can’t afford these cars until they are out of the spotlight and then pulling the money they stole from you out of their mattress!!
Sold $4,625,000. Wow!!
I’d bet that Mike could not afford to buy it back…
My personal opinion is that there are much better ways to spend $4.5M to$5M
than to buy a car that costs more than the average home. I could buy a beautiful house for less that what they want to get for a car that needs a new clutch every 6200 miles or so.
If I had been at the auction, i would have gone up and bit one of the side mirrors off. Just sayin…………….
$4.6 million plus 10% buyer’s fee. Yikes! Similar F50 just sold on Bring a Trailer for $3.3 million and $5000 buyer’s fee. Maybe the ghosts of Mike Tyson’s bad behaviour are punishing the buyers of his cast offs???
$75K to prep a car? I’m in the wrong business!
In all honesty, What is a car like this doing on Barn Finds!?!?!?!?
did Mike bite a tire off?
Like everything now a day’s. The opinions are so radically opposite. The person that will end up buying the car would never get to hear any of this.
The time when Ferrari was ready to go into formula one.
The F50 was a huge improvement to the F40 in any
detail. A high spec runner with unbeaten performance
until to the Ferrari Enzo. The grandfather of any hyper
cars. But its a Ferrari. Not a hyper car.
75000$ for a service? Was the engine broken? Any day
some idiots get up from the bed. Ferrari doesnt claims
that prices. A service is between 1500 and 3000$
sold $4,625,000