hA few weeks ago we told that Fernando Alonso he was going to sell his Ferrari Enzo. Not directly, but by auction. And in the best of environments, in an event organized by Monaco Car Auctions. In principle, the plan was wonderful for Ferrari fans without financial problems, because in addition to some ‘cult objects’ (some Ferrari mechanic’s gloves, for example) there were 39 Ferraris among which the Enzo by Fernando Alonso it was the ‘juiciest dish’.
But the Asturian driver will have to pick up his car again because no one has bought it. why? We are going to give the reason, but to understand it in all its dimension we must first know the unit in question. It is an Enzo, a model that is located in the elite of the elite of the modern-era Cavallino models (we exclude here the wonderful classics of the 1950s and 1960s, with the 250 GTO leading the way). That is, it belongs to the same ‘club’ as the 288 GTO, F40, F50 and LaFerrari.
350 km/h top speed
Secondly, and as befits this category, it is animated by an engine 6.0 liter V12 able to produce 660 hp and project the pilot to the 350km/hfigures that in 2002, when the car went on the market, were the most that Ferrari had offered in a street model.
The fact that only 400 units will be madesome of which went to such well-known owners as Eric Clapton, Nicolas Cage, Rod Stewart and until the Pope Juan Pablo IIwho received it as a gift and then auctioned it off for charity.
Only 4,800 km
If we add to this that it only has 4,800 km on his marker and that before going up for auction he went through a complete tune-up to be like the first day, Alonso could already hope that it would be sold for a figure close to or greater than 2.5 million.
But then they come into play two details whose value is not measurable nor quantifiable, but rather depend on the desire that it can generate in a millionaire collector. The first is the fact that there belonged to a pilot who has been twice world championwho bought it during his time as a Ferrari driver and I registered it in Spain in November 2011 with HGZ registration. That is to say, it has been 11 and a half years since Alonso has had it in his garage.
It has chassis number 1
And the second, whose added value is also impossible to quantify mathematically, is that it is the first manufactured unit of the Ferrari Enzowhich makes it perhaps the most special unit.
So, what has happened so that the car has not been sold? The reason is that the auction organizers and Fernando himself have given a very high value to these last two details, which really depended on how they would strike a chord with prospective buyers. And so, they anticipated that the car would sell for between 5 and 5.5 million eurosa figure that has been shown to be excessive and that nobody was willing to offer.
An amount of around 3.5 million perhaps it would have been more realistic today. But in the end, and as we say, everything depended on how the potential buyer would “warm up” at the auction.
