Meet Herbert Wertheim, the Billionaire Who Paid $40M for Ferrari’s First EV
The winning bid topped the Luce’s $550,000 retail price by more than 70 times, and proceeds will support Ferrari Foundation education programs.
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Ferrari’s Controversial First Electric Supercar Defies Critics With Record-Smashing $40 Million Charity Auction Sale
Ferrari’s Controversial First Electric Supercar Defies Critics With Record-Smashing $40 Million Charity Auction Sale By: Russ Spencer Ferrari’s first fully electric production automobile has achieved an astonishing and unexpected triumph, fetching an extraordinary $40 million at a charity auction and setting a new world record for the highest price ever paid for a brand-new vehicle at auction. As reported on Monday by The New York Post, the …
The Florida Billionaire Who Paid $40M for the First Electric Ferrari
The 87-year-old inventor, investor and Mar-a-Lago regular paid more than 35 times the Ferrari Luce’s approximate $630,000 MSRP. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image At Monterey Car Week in California last weekend, Ferrari auctioned its first-ever Ferrari Luce. The white-on-white electric vehicle, designated VIN 0, had been expected to sell for about $1.1 million. Instead, Herbert [...]
Ferrari Luce, the company's first electric vehicle, already owns it: magnate Herbie Wertheim bought it for US$40 at an auction. The price it reached turned the unpublished specimen into the most expensive new car ever sold at a charity auction, reported in a statement RM Sotheby’s. The auction house announced that all the profits obtained from the sale of the car, whose original value was US$1.1 million, would go to educational initiatives throu…
It is the American optometrist Herbert Wertheim, collector of models of the Maranello brand. He has just had the chassis number 0 of the polemic Luce, at a charity auction.
Ferrari’s First Electric Car Smashes Record with $40 Million Auction Sale—Is This the Future of Supercars?
$40 million for a Ferrari—but this one hums, it doesn’t roar. That was the final bid that sent Ferrari’s first-ever all-electric car, the “Luce Tailor Made,” into the record books during Monterey Car Week in California this past weekend. In a remarkable moment for the Italian automaker, an electric Ferrari just became the most expensive new car ever sold at auction, according to the company.
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