Low-Mileage F50 Headlines Las Vegas Auction
Broad Arrow Auctions has announced a remarkably preserved 1997 Ferrari F50 showing just 106 miles from new as the headline offering of its upcoming Las Vegas Auction. The auction company estimates the time-capsule Ferrari will bring more than $20,000,000, potentially establishing a new benchmark for the increasingly desireable analog supercar.
The one-day sale will take place October 31 at Wynn Las Vegas, where Broad Arrow will offer more than 75 collector cars as the official auction partner of the Concours at Wynn Las Vegas.
Ferrari's F1 Car for the Road
Unveiled at the 1995 Geneva Motor Show, the F50 was conceived as an early celebration of Ferrari’s 50th anniversary. It followed the turbocharged F40 but adopted a markedly different formula: a naturally aspirated V12, an open-gated six-speed manual transmission and construction methods drawn directly from Formula 1.
Its 4.7L, five-valve-per-cylinder V12 was developed from the 3.5L engine used in Ferrari’s 1990 Formula 1 car. Producing 513 horsepower, the engine was attached directly to the carbon-fiber passenger cell and served as a structural component supporting the transmission and rear suspension – an arrangement closely related to contemporary Grand Prix practice.
The Formula 1 influence extended to the F50’s pushrod-operated suspension and carbon-composite monocoque. Yet Ferrari retained the tactile qualities that now make the model especially desirable: unassisted steering, non-servo brakes and a conventional gated manual gearbox rather than the paddle-shift transmission that would come to define later Ferrari flagships.
Ferrari claimed a top speed of 202 mph and acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds. Every F50 also featured a removable roof panel, allowing owners to convert the car from a closed berlinetta into an open barchetta and experience the high-revving V12 with little separation from the elements.
Production was deliberately limited to 349 examples between 1995 and 1997. At the Geneva unveiling, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo famously explained that the company would build one fewer F50 than it believed the market could absorb.
A 106-Mile Time Capsule
The car consigned to Broad Arrow is chassis ZFFTA46B000107165, the 334th of the 349 F50s produced and therefore a late-production example. It was supplied through Maranello Sales Ltd. of Egham, Surrey, and is one of approximately 25 F50s delivered new to the United Kingdom.
Finished in its original Rosso Corsa over Nero leather with Rosso seat inserts, the 1997 F50 has covered only 106 miles in nearly three decades. Broad Arrow presents it as an exceptionally preserved, museum-grade example and believes it is likely the lowest-mileage F50 in existence.
The car retains its factory removable hardtop and the original flight case used to store the panel when the F50 is configured as a barchetta. Its unusually complete group of accompanying items includes J.P. Tod’s driving shoes, a three-piece Schedoni luggage set with dust covers, the factory tool kit, wheel socket, fuse, bulb and belt kits, plus Ferrari-branded car, seat and steering-wheel covers.
“This is certainly the lowest-mileage example of an end-of-an-era supercar,” said Alexander Weaver, senior car specialist and vice president at Broad Arrow Auctions. Weaver noted that the car is “as close as anyone can get today to taking delivery of a brand-new F50.”
A Potential Record Price
Broad Arrow’s estimate of in excess of $20,000,000 places chassis 107165 well above the current public-auction benchmark for the model. That record stands at $14.575 million, paid for a Giallo Modena F50 at Mecum’s Monterey sale in August 2026. Another F50 sold for $12.105 million at RM Sotheby’s during the same Monterey auction week.
Those results illustrate the F50’s dramatic rise within the collector-car market. An ex-Ralph Lauren example brought $9.245 million in August 2025, meaning the model’s auction record climbed by more than $5 million in the following 12 months.
The Las Vegas car’s extreme low-mileage, late-production status, original specification and comprehensive collection of factory accessories separate it from even the best F50s recently offered publicly. If bidding reaches Broad Arrow’s expectation, it will not merely establish a new F50 record – it will lift the model into a price category traditionally occupied by historically significant competition cars and Ferrari’s most coveted classic-era road models.
For collectors who view preservation and completeness as highly as driving history, chassis 107165 may represent an unrepeatable opportunity. It is not just an outstanding Ferrari F50, but a time capsule of how Maranello’s final manual-transmission flagship appeared when new.