A Ferrari Testarossa is offered for sale by Bring a Trailer! With a bet of nearly $130,000, the auction will reach crazy sums!
Bring a Trailer continues to bring its share of auctions as original as they are inaccessible to most people. This time, it is a Ferrari Testarossa which is particularly talked regarding, the second to be offered at auction in a few weeks. Except the last time the sale was handled by Sotheby’s. The price was absolutely not the same!
The New York auction house had estimated the starting price of the Testarossa at a total of £1.8 million. For Bring a Trailer, the current bid is more like $126,000. That is more than ten times lower than the model sold by Sotheby’s! But we must also take into consideration that this batch carried with it a particular history. The car had served as the basis for one of the most famous arcade games in history, Outrun. It was also a Testarossa Spidera particularly rare model.
Ferrari Testarossa among favorites in Bring a Trailer auction
For the record, the Ferrari Testarossa currently on sale by Bring a Trailer has already been acquired following auctions on this site in 2019. Her owner first brought her to Dubai with him. Then he sent her back to the United States two years later, in 2022. Of course, this is one of Ferrari’s best-known models in the 1980s. It is powered by a 4.9-litre flat-12, has a five-speed manual gearbox and a limited-slip differential.
As for the design, it differs a bit from most models of the same line. The classic color used on Ferraris is, it is known, red. But this Testarossa has a finish in Metallic Light Gold. In other words, it is coated in a gold color specifically designed for Ferrari. Its equipment also includes leather seats, 16″ five-spoke alloy wheels, pop-up headlights, air conditioning, electric windows and a sliding gear lever. It also does not display such a high mileage, since it only amounts to 5,000 kilometers. In addition, it comes with a set of luggage, owner’s manuals, maintenance records and a Carfax report.
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Bring a Trailer plays on the nostalgia of potential buyers
Besides the fact that the sale relates to a Ferrari Testarossa, what strikes the most are the photos that Bring a Trailer has decided to publish to accompany the announcement. They were taken so that they are reminiscent of the 1980s and, more specifically, the series Miami Vice (Two cops in Miami). It is indeed in this famous American production that the Ferrari Testarossa was partly popularized, although the model then used was white in color.
No, the Testarossa here offered for sale by Bring a Trailer is not the car of Miami Vice. The latter had also had great difficulty finding a buyer when it was put on the market in 2017. But it strongly reminds 1980s vibe and will certainly be able to delight a new collector!
