A Ferrari that cannot be raced, cannot be taken home, and cannot even be collected until 2028 — unless Ferrari agrees otherwise — sold on Sunday for CHF 8,217,500. The car was Lot 17 at Gooding Christie’s first Swiss auction, held at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues during Geneva Luxury Week: a 2024 Ferrari 499P Modificata, chassis 21, in its original red livery with the No. 88. Christie’s says it is the most expensive car sold at auction in Switzerland this year. No 499P of any kind had ever been offered at public auction before, so the number is not a record broken. It is a benchmark created.
The house had estimated the car in excess of CHF 7,500,000 before the sale, and the result cleared that estimate. The car itself has barely lived. It has never raced, and its only running is the factory shakedown work Ferrari does to confirm a Modificata functions. Everything about it is new except its bloodline — and the bloodline is the point.
The Le Mans car, minus the racing
The 499P is the car that brought Ferrari back to the top of Le Mans: overall victories in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the marque’s first outright wins there since the 1960s. The Modificata is the customer version of that car, built under Ferrari’s Sport Prototipi Clienti program for a small number of the factory’s closest clients. It carries the racing car’s hybrid powertrain, unrestricted by the rulebook the competition car answers to, with a Push to Pass system that releases a short burst of extra power on demand.
Watch: Ferrari introduces the 499P Modificata in its official 2023 model film. This is related model footage, not the Geneva auction car.
What the buyer does not get is a racing career. The Modificata is eligible for no championship and no series. Its owner drives it at track days Ferrari organizes, with factory crews running the car — the program stores, maintains and transports the fleet between events. The driving is real. The competition is not, and was never sold as part of the deal.
The car stays in Maranello
The most unusual term sits in the fine print. Because the Modificata shares components with the cars Ferrari still campaigns, this car is expected to remain stored at Maranello until December 2028 — unless otherwise agreed with Ferrari — with Ferrari handling its maintenance — a condition Classic Driver’s sale coverage sets out in detail. The buyer owns a CHF 8,217,500 Ferrari that lives at the factory. For the first two years, what the money buys is scheduled access and a place in the program; the factory support and the Maranello storage are charged separately.
A strong first room
The sale around the top lot held up. Gooding Christie’s — Christie’s automotive department, holding its first sale on Swiss ground — reported more than CHF 21 million in total sales with a 96% sell-through rate, figures published in Christie’s official results release and confirmed by classic-car-auctions.info’s results listing of the same sale.
The undercard was Ferrari-heavy. A 2016 F12tdf brought CHF 1,805,000 and a 2023 812 Competizione A made CHF 1,748,750. A 2025 SF90 XX Spider sold for CHF 1,580,000, which the house records as a world auction record for that model. The one non-Ferrari near the top, a 2018 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 63, made CHF 905,000.
None of it changes the shape of the top lot. There was no 499P price before Sunday because no 499P had ever been sold this way. Now there is one: CHF 8,217,500, for a car its new owner will visit in Maranello.
Sources · 3 sources
- Christie’s — Gooding Christie’s Geneva auction results release (November 10, 2026): the CHF 8,217,500 result, the CHF 21 million sale total, the 96% sell-through rate and the SF90 XX Spider model record.
- Classic Driver — Geneva sale coverage of the 499P Modificata (November 9, 2026): the Sport Prototipi Clienti terms and the Maranello storage condition through December 2028.
- TechEBlog — “Ferrari 499P Modificata Auction Brings Unrestricted Le Mans Power to a Select Few” (November 6, 2026): the lot preview, chassis 21, and the pre-sale estimate in excess of CHF 7,500,000.
