Conceived to compete in the abandoned Group B race series of the 1980s, the twin-turbocharged 288 GTO is the original Ferrari halo car and the rarest of the five, with only 272 built – ingredients that all but guaranteed it blue-chip collector car status from the outset.
Gooding & Company tested new levels for GTOs at auction in 2013, breaching the $1.5million mark for the first time with a 27,000-mile example that sold for $1,512,500 at Pebble Beach. Bonhams upped the ante a year later in London, getting £1,513,500, before RM Sotheby’s 2015 Arizona sale indicated where the market sat for lower-mileage cars, achieving $2,750,000 for an ex-Matsuda Collection car with 10,911km (resold in 2016 at $2,585,000). A barely used GTO broke through $3million in 2017 and by 2022 the…
