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October 31, 2025
From Senna's daily driver to unicorn classics and the most extreme track weapons you can buy, our top picks from RM Sotheby's exclusive London sale.
An RM Sotheby's auction is always like the most extravagant sweet shop you've ever seen, with some of the world's most insane rarities and even some more affordable examples in the mix too. Even if your wallet isn't feeling quite up to bidding on a car, there are number plates, memorabilia, or simply the rush of watching other people raise their hand and seeing what figures are reached.
If you weren't around to watch it first-hand, here are our six picks from the results.
If you want to feel like you’ve just walked into a Lamborghini showroom holding your brick of a mobile phone, this Diablo is for you. It’s one of around 873 original-specification examples and has covered just 249 km in its 32-year life.
The spec is rather more wild than the sedentary life it has lived, with Rosso paintwork over Rosso leather! It’s unlikely this car will ever be driven, but should someone choose to be bold, they’ll be enjoying a 5.7-litre naturally-aspirated V12 through the rear wheels and a dogleg manual gearbox.
Why is an ‘80s German taxi on this list? Why did someone pay nearly a quarter of a million pounds for that German taxi with 154,000 miles on the clock? One word — Senna. This 190 E was bought new by Ayrton Senna after he drove a similar car in the same colour at the 1984 Nürburgring Race of Champions, and he did around 25,000 miles in the two years he owned it for.
The paperwork documents Senna’s ownership with a factory invoice, V5 and service records, and if that wasn’t enough F1 history, the engine bay was signed by Niki Lauda at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix.
At Secret Meet, we’ve had multiple variations of McLaren F1s, Paganis, Koenigseggs and so many more unicorns, but never a BMW M1 — that’s how rare these things are.
Just 399 road-going examples were built, giving birth to BMW M’s road cars, which of course now have an enormous following, but they’ve never built another mid-engined supercar (the i8 isn’t an M car). Making this even more of a unicorn, this car has been in the same ownership since its early life in 1980!
There are lottery-win cars, and then there’s this. The FXX-K Evo is about as extreme as it gets without actually buying an old F1 car, and its previous owners have enjoyed nearly 6,000 km of hair-raising track action at the wheel.
It’s a purpose-built track machine with 1,035hp as well as weight-saving and aero measures that make it five seconds faster than a road-going LaFerrari around Fiorano — a hefty chunk over such a short lap. Around 60 were ever produced, it emits one of the greatest noises of any road or race car ever, and just look at it!
The FXX-K’s contemporary equivalent from McLaren doesn’t command anything like the same money, but performance is on a par with 1,000hp and even more extreme aero, and it’s even rarer with just 58 examples ever produced for the most well-heeled of track day enthusiasts. T
he car had just one owner from new, and the price tag for that owner would have been £2.376 million — that’s some pretty unimaginable depreciation!
For almost the same money as the P1 GTR, you could have a car that couldn’t be much different! You’ll recognise this one if you’re a Jonty Wydell fan, as it’s the very car he recently drove alongside the Diablo SV which was part of the same auction.
Widely accepted as the first supercar, the Miura is an icon, and one of the most beautiful cars ever made. It sounds as good as it looks thanks to a naturally-aspirated 3.9-litre V12 and takes some man handling to drive quickly. This is believed to be one of just 37 cars finished in Bleu Miura (a strange instance of Lamborghini using the French spelling of blue instead of the usual ‘Blu’).
