Ferrari LaFerrari up for sale - at a WHOPPING £3,200,000

Ferrari LaFerrari up for sale – at a WHOPPING £3,200,000

A Ferrari LaFerrari has gone up for sale at a supercar dealers in the US, with the asking price set at $5 million – three times its new price.

We all know that rare cars often attract a premium when they’re new, and that rare high-end cars often hold their value and even appreciate over time.

Cars like the new BMW i8 hybrid supercar were attracting big premiums when they first arrived (although those premiums have now disappeared) and cars like the Ferrari Enzo have eventually increased in value to the point where they’re now selling at around three times their original cost.

But it seems one particular car dealer in the US – Naples Motorsports in Florida – firmly believes that the LaFerrari already warrants the sort of increase in value it’s taken the Enzo more than a decade to achieve, as they have a 200 mile LaFerrari up for sale for $5,000,000 (£3.2 million).

There seems to be nothing exceptional about this particular LaFerrari (well, no more special than the other 498 LaFerraris), and Naples seem to be banking on market forces flushing out a buyer happy to drop enough cash to buy three LaFerraris, if Ferrari would let them. But therein lies the problem.

Ferrari went to great lengths to stop buyers of LaFerrari profiting (at least in the short term) from flipping their cars by locking them in to a no resale contract, and even tried to stop them lending their cars to motoring journalist for tests.

But however deep your pockets, tripling your money for little effort is hard to resist – even if you incur the wrath of Ferrari in the process.