Ferrari

The Villa d'Este is a celebrated 16th-century villa which, since 1929, has been the venue for a world-renowned annual automotive beauty contest – the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. The 2021 event, as usual, provided a feast for the senses.

In addition to crowning a new Best of Show at the world’s most important Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach, two of the last three Peninsula Classics Best of the Best winners were there, plus 38 former Pebble Beach winning cars.

The Quail is the stage upon which prestigious marques show their finest wares for the first time and while 2021 saw a bumper crop of new models, this event is more than a hypercar showroom, it is a celebration of automotive excellence spanning all eras.

Ferrari plans to sell scale replicas of the fabled 1950s 250 Testa Rossa supercar, all built to exacting standards with hand-beaten aluminum bodywork, a sophisticated electric drivetrain, suspension modeled on the original ... and a $US109,000 price tag.

A $5 million sale puts you into the top 150 most valuable cars ever sold at auction, and that’s where we’ve drawn the line in our first preview of the coming Monterey Car Week Auction cluster.

Ferrari has introduced a new version of its V12 supercar based on the 812 Superfast, which simultaneously sheds a little weight and beefs up output to a maximum 610 kW while revving to a formidable, if not quite Murray T.50 level, 9,500 rpm.

A Ferrari 330 P2 Junior by French coach-builder De La Chapelle sold for the astonishing world-record price of €110,000 (US$133,325) at an RM-Sotheby's auction in Paris on February 13.

Twelve years ago, this Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder became the world’s most expensive car when it sold more than US$10 million. Now the rare open-topped V12 sports car, which was once owned by Hollywood actor James Coburn, is for sale again.

"Weight is the enemy, air resistance the obstacle." Not novel ideas for fast vehicles, but the all-new Aero 3 from Touring Superleggera was developed with a brief featuring that simple phrase bolded at the top. And it very much shows.

Ferrari has built a new home for the 3.8-liter biturbo V8 that's won the last four Engine of the Year awards and counting. The Portofino M is a 620-horsepower evolution on the "entry-level" convertible released back in 2017.

The UK’s Concours of Elegance has always been select on almost every level, though this year it was significantly more so, bringing together just 60 exceptional cars and showcasing them against the traditional exceptional backdrop.

After the first big online-only foray by the biggest automotive auction cluster on Planet Earth, it's clear that automobiles are not particularly suited to online-only auctions, but that significant strides were made in the right direction.