17 seven-figure cars from a year of Bonhams|Cars sales

There have been 17 of them in total, and a certain Italian marque is represented considerably more strongly than any other. Here’s a run-down of those million pound-plus sales.

Hypercarfest at The Quail Auction

Bonhams|Cars’ Quail sale provided the biggest-ticket sales of the year, in both quantity and individual values. There were no fewer than nine seven-figure sales, and they were led by the as-new 800-mile 2020 Bugatti Divo, which sold for £6.51million. Joining in the top three lots from that sale were two more Bugattis from the same collection. A 2023 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport raised £3.39million and a 2021 Chiron Pur Sport sold for £3.01million.

The Bugattis all came from one collection, as did another four hypercars. A super-rare one-of-ten 2022 Apollo Intensa Emozione in one-off ‘Ocean Dragon’ specification reached £2.62million. There were two strains of Pagani — a 2017 Huayra Roadster (£2.51million) and one of 30 Huayra R track cars (£2.3million). Rounding off the modern machinery was a 2021 Koenigsegg Regera that was bid to £2.01million.

The remaining seven-figure cars from the Quail were rather more classic. A 1985 Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 sold for £1.34million, and being one of just four in private hands. The final seven-figure sale was from much further back in time. A glorious 1956 Ferrari 250 Europa GT sold for £1.14million. Which leads us to the most prolific marque in this year’s million-pound sales…

Five more million-pound Ferraris

A total of six Ferraris reached seven-figure sums at Bonhams|Cars sales in 2025, all of them from the classic end of the spectrum. In fact, at the Bonmont Sale, Les Grandes Marques Du Monde À Paris and Zoute Sale Ferraris were the only cars to make it into the millions. The most expensive Maranello machine of the year came from Bonmont, where a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Berlinetta sold for £2.72million. A restoration by Ferrari in 2013 to 2016 helped its value.

France next, where two competition Ferraris found new homes at the Les Grandes Marques Du Monde À Paris sale. A 1950 Ferrari 166 MM Touring Barchetta, with the provenance of a fourth-place finish at the 1951 Mille Miglia, sold for £2.48million, while a 1954-55 Ferrari Tipo 555 ‘Super Squalo’ 2.5-litre Formula 1 sold for £1.74million. It’s one of only two known survivors.

Headlining the Zoute Sale in Belgium was a Ferrari F40 that sold for £2.39million. An icon of the 1980s, this one was actually built in 1991 and was owned in Japan for a long time. It came complete with detailed history and Ferrari Classiche certification. Its stablemate, a 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, fetched £1.21million in the same auction. It also had Classiche certification, matching numbers in addition to a recent engine overhaul.

A classic, a continuation and a restomod

This field of Ferraris followed the wake of the Bonhams|Cars’ first million-pound sale, which was at the Scottsdale Auction in January. A 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing set the seven-figure tone with a sale of £1.06million, it’s a matching-numbers car in its original silver-over-blue colour scheme. The Miami Auction witnessed a Singer sell for £1.27million. Its full name is – take a breath – Porsche 911 Classic Turbo Reimagined by Singer, and it was the first Classic Turbo to come to the market. The 17^th and final seven-figure car is an Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sanction III, an officially recognised continuation model built in this millennium. It sold for £1.07million.

From a 1950s F1 car to modern day hypercars via classic grand tourers, iconic supercars and a continuation, there has certainly been a diverse array of cars to breach the million-pound mark throughout 2025. Which one would you most like to have bagged over the past 12 months?