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7 Left-Field Rarities on the Market Right Now
Join us as we go window shopping for the best rare, quirky and appreciating supercars on the market right now.
January 17, 2025
A Ferrari Enzo is rare enough as it is, how about a 1,141-mile car once owned by F1 champ Jenson Button?
With an unfortunate mishap involving Lando Norris’ F40, there’s a lot of chatter online at the moment about F1-driver-owned F Cars, so I wanted to take a more positive look with an absolutely pristine Enzo once owned by 2009 World Champion Jenson Button.
Originally expected to be named F60, the Enzo was released as the successor to the F50 at the 2002 Paris Motor Show, and was the first ever car in Maranello history to bear Enzo’s name. People get precious enough over the GTO moniker, so to use the name of the company’s infamous founder is quite a weight on the shoulders.
Using F1 technology and extensive carbon fibre as well as a 660hp V12 in a package weighing just 1,255kg (dry) made sure the Enzo lived up to its name, and the car is cemented in history alongside the all-time greats. Just 399 were produced, kind of. You see, one final car took the total to 400 which was famously gifted to Pope John Paul II, though he declined the gift, asking Ferrari instead to sell it and donate the proceeds to the victims of the Southeast Asian tsunami — perhaps red wasn’t his colour.
Originally listing for around £400,000 when new, the Enzo is a rare sight on the used market these days with collectors clinging onto them for dear life, and they’ve appreciated at a rate that makes a Porsche Taycan’s depreciation look tame. This particular example is asking ten times its original list price, but if any Enzo should, it’s this one.
Coming with Ferrari Classiche Certification and full Ferrari service history, it is showing just 1,141 miles from new, which admittedly I think is a shame, but from a collector’s point of view, this isn’t a far cry from owning a new Enzo over 20 years ago — not an opportunity that comes around every day, even if you’re Ferrari’s latest employee, a British bloke called Lewis.
What of course makes this Enzo even more appealing to some though is one of its former custodians, another British bloke who made the same kind of living as Lewis. For Jonty, it’s the Enzo Ferrari-branded suit carrier that would make this almost irresistible though!
The asking price is £3,950,000, perhaps making the Enzo the most sought-after of all the F Car lineup, although so sought-after every model is, they seem to command more every time they come up for sale. Can they possibly keep rising? Only time will tell, but given the history of Ferrari’s most iconic models, there’s plenty of room for them to do so!
