The Six-Mile Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Has Just Sold For Big Money
Remember that Porsche 964 911 Carrera RSR 3.8 we told you about? The ultra-rare collectors’ item has just sold for a tear-jerking $2.25 million.
We say tear-jerking because it has only covered six miles from new. The Can-Can Red red leather, which covers everything from the seats to the dashboard and door trims, has barely ever been touched, rubbed or even sat on.
The RM Auctions sale at Villa Erba on Saturday saw the 1993 car sell for the equivalent of just over £1.75m. Not a bad return for a car that was bought specifically as an investment piece, as much as it pains us to see it going unused.
The 3.8-litre motorsport-derived engine pushed out around 345bhp, which made it good for a 0-62mph sprint of just 3.7 seconds, as tested in the real world by Car & Driver magazine. That made it faster than the Ferrari F40, at the time.
The odd mucky coating you can see on the RSR in the pictures isn’t the grime of decades, accumulated as if the car had been left out under some trees for all this time. It’s actually Cosmoline, a special rust-inhibitor that was applied at the factory as per the buyer’s request.
We’re gutted that this glorious old machine has never turned a wheel in anger, as it and its 50 brothers were designed to do. But there’s not a lot we can do about it, short of crowdfunding enough cash to convince the new owner to part with it again…
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6 miles? What a waste. I don’t think this car’s going to do any more ever again :(.
Maybe it’ll go up to 7 miles
You know what’s more tear-jerking than the price? The fact that it’ll probably become another garage queen.
Whats even worse is that a garage queen is the only thing its ever been, and likely will be.
I think this one should be garage queen. But every other stupid Porsche should be driven
Or the color of the leather…
This person obviously isn’t PORsche to afford this car.
Get out
Amazing investment head. I would’ve loved to have done the same. Hate all you want, but if you have enough money to buy a Carrera RSR, you do not need it as a daily driver. There’s another machinery that will not appreciate as much you can use.
But no one, even if they’ve got more money than sense, would daily that. It’s a high performance machine, created to be driven at the limit. Of course there’s some sense in leaving it impeccable and selling it on for an extortionate amount, but that doesn’t distract from the fact that a car has four wheels, in order for it to move. Cars are meant to be driven, not stuck in a shed for thirty years. I know if I’d designed a car as special as that, I’d be hugely pissed off that someone who won’t drive it has bought it, preventing others from doing so. It’s selfish, and a poor thing to do.
If Momo was here, he would’ve been making use of the 345 hp
May he rest in piece..
Im sorry, who’s momo?
Waste of a good car.
6 miles from the dealership
I could go on forever… but in short, I’ll say this that people would wish they’ve experienced how incredible that car is instead of driving it’s value into space.
Worth it.
Bidders be like:
What if cars are designed to be driven?
Actually no, that can’t be true…