A number from the desk. What the market did, what changed hands, and the machines behind the figures — set as it would be printed.
Three notes this number. One car moved between two members without ever being advertised; the twelve-cylinder cars held their level; and the gap between a matching car and a re-engined one widened again. Behind them, nine short histories.
A rare Gordon Murray supercar set a new record, selling for $20,600,000 at a live auction. This sale represents the most expensive new car ever sold.
“Neither side was named, and the figure stays between them.”
The house records the sale, the file and the figure, and nothing else leaves the office. Members are told what a comparable car did, never who owned it.
Tell the house what you need
The Mecum Kissimmee 2026 auction, held from January 6-18, 2026, generated $445,000,000 in total sales. Over 4,000 vehicles crossed the block, with Saturday alone producing $259,000,000 in sales.
The one-of-one 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO “Bianco Speciale” sold for $38,500,000 at Mecum Kissimmee 2026. This became the most expensive car ever sold at a Mecum auction.
From the Phil and Martha Bachman Collection, a Ferrari Enzo sold for $17,875,000, and a Ferrari F50 sold for $12,210,000. These sales contributed to multiple modern Ferrari record breakers at Mecum Kissimmee 2026.
At Mecum Kissimmee 2026, a 1966 Ford GT40 Mk II Factory Lightweight sold for over $12,000,000. This sale was one of 54 vehicles that sold for more than $1,000,000 at the auction.
Nine machines, what was built, and why people still want them
The V10 in this car was designed for a Le Mans racing car that Porsche cancelled. The engine sat unused until Porsche decided to build a road car around it. There is no stability control, and the clutch is famously hard to use. That difficulty is most of the reason people want one now.
Porsche built the 959 to race in Group B. The class was banned, so the car became a road car carrying technology nobody else had: all-wheel drive that could move power front to rear on its own, and a ride height the driver could raise and lower. A 959 won the Paris-Dakar in 1986. Bill Gates and Paul Allen imported theirs and US customs impounded them for thirteen years until the law was changed. Komfort is the road trim; Sport was the stripped one.
Ferrari had 350 people who wanted an F50 and deliberately built 349. The 4.7-litre V12 came out of the 1990 Formula One car and bolts straight to the tub with no rubber between it and the driver. For twenty years it was the least loved of Ferrari's five great specials. It is now the one that has moved furthest.
Gordon Murray put the driver in the middle with a passenger either side, lined the engine bay with gold because gold reflects heat better than anything else, and refused to fit a turbocharger. In 1998 an F1 ran 240.1 mph and held the production record for ten years. A racing version won Le Mans outright in 1995, the first year it entered. It is generally the most valuable car built since 1980.
Attack is the downforce version of the Jesko, making around 1,000 kg of it at speed while Absolut is the low-drag one. The engine makes 1,280 hp on pump petrol and 1,600 hp on E85. The nine-speed gearbox has no synchromesh and can jump straight to whichever gear it needs instead of shifting through the ones in between.
One-off commissions like this have no public history by design. What exists is held by the maker and the first owner and passes with the car rather than being published. What we can confirm is the mandate, the chassis, and that someone from our desk has stood in front of it.
Shown at Geneva in 2019 at around 11 million euros before tax. It is a tribute to the Type 57 SC Atlantic that Jean Bugatti built for himself and drove. That car was moved ahead of the war in 1939, disappeared, and has never been found. Four Atlantics were made and three survive.
Named after Ettore Bugatti's own horse, Brouillard, which he was known to let walk through the factory at Molsheim. It is the first commission under Bugatti's Programme Solitaire, built on the Mistral's W16 at 1,578 hp, and reported as a commission of around twenty million dollars.
Rolls-Royce spent four years on this car for a single customer, and it was reported at about 13 million dollars, which made it the most expensive new car built at the time. The customer asked for a boat deck rear and a roof made from one piece of glass. There are no rear seats. In their place is a panel of macassar ebony and a hidden compartment holding a bottle and two glasses.
