Over time, the Ferrari F40 has steadily increased in value. A copy sold in August 2022 in the United States broke all records, it was sold for €3,965,000 ! With chassis number 87041, this is the 77th of 213 examples built for the US market. It left the factory on October 30, 1990 and has known several owners.

This F40 has surprisingly not driven many kilometres. Despite its advanced age and multiple owners, it has only driven 1832 miles, or barely 2948 km! Its first owner was a certain Ronald Budworth, who sold it in 1993 to Bob Scholefield and carefully kept it for 14 years. It had then not driven more than 800 km.

Bob Scholefield sold it to David E. Walters, before finding a buyer at auction in 2008. It was certified in 2011 by the Ferrari Classiche division. In 2013, its new owner – Ian James Poulter – performed a full engine service at 1,300 miles (2,092 km). Its previous owner acquired it in 2018, and had a Ferrari technician carry out a full service with cleaning of the throttle bodies, rebuilding of the brake calipers, overhaul of the air conditioning system, etc.

Gooding & Company explains that the Ferrari in question has won several awards presented by the « Ferrari Club of America ». Apart from the Platinum award, it also won the Coppa Bella Macchina, outstanding Supercar and Coppa GT awards.

The Ferrari F40 is powered by a 2.9-liter twin-turbo V8 engine. It delivers 478 hp and 577 Nm of torque. She is able to accelerate 0 to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds and spin at a maximum speed of 324 km/h. Ferrari had planned to produce only 400 copies of its F40finally, in the face of success, 1311 copies were built. Few have such exceptional condition and mileage as chassis 87041.

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