This Low-Mileage, Mint-Condition Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 Will Set A New Six-Figure Price Record
Another day, another story about a low-mileage, almost unused and now insanely valuable modern classic.
This time we’re back to fast Ford territory, and after one Sierra Cosworth RS500 we featured ahead of its sale smashed through its upper estimate and fetched a breath-stealing £114,750, this one could go even higher.
Another 224bhp RS500, this one is in even better condition and has a little over half the mileage of the black one from earlier this year. Just 6000 miles rest on its four-cylinder, turbocharged shoulders. Its basically like new. We hate that it hasn’t been used properly, but it’s still good to see one so pristine.
One of just 56 ever delivered in the iconic white that we feel suits the car best, it’s properly rare. It’s also in almost completely original condition, aside from the belts, battery and fluids were replaced as part of a major service in 2014.
Silverstone Auctions, which is hosting the car’s sale during a two-day event on November 11-12, is calling it the best example they have seen. Not so coincidentally, they also sold the black one a few months ago.
It was found languishing among a classic Ferrari collection in Germany in 2007 by exotic car dealer Joe Macari, who bought it and later sold it to a Ford collector who stored the car in a climate-controlled environment. Of course.
The estimate has been set at £100,000-£115,000, but that’s surely going to be chewed up and spat out. We reckon more like £130,000; watch this space.
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Real world Uranus from GTA 4.
“Fast ford territory” cmon get real. Fanboys incoming
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Had supercar acceleration when they were new, but also very underpowered from the factory. Ford could have easily given them 350hp, but it all comes down to emissions and taxes
Here’s my 2 cents on the whole to drive a valuable car or not:
See the thing is, most of the cars are enjoyed by their respective owners when they came out back in the day. Some rare oddities were either never “officially” sold, or owned by collectors, or drivers who wanted to maintain them in pristine form. Hence, low mileage cars are actually not as much of a bane as we treat them as. Think of them as time capsules! Anyway, more used ones are also up for sale for cheaper prices of course, which enables us (who enjoy driving) to give them hell and drive them to bits without feeling bad or having our wallets drained!
In Short: Cars which are barely used aren’t that bad of a thing!
My 2 cents XD
These barely driven classics are like the pairs of animal in Noah’s Ark: they are preserved in prestine condition for years to come, those particular cars will exist when all others rusts away or crashed, even if they did it for the profit in the first place.
It says in the article that they hate it wasn’t used properly. Anyone who has experience with these cars knows that they aren’t good for that. The standard Sierra Cosworth was a much better road car. Accelerated faster and had a higher top speed than the RS500. Even if you tune them, the standard one is better for 330 ish hp. The RS500 turbo is way too big, and it doesn’t work well with low hp.
As a (hopefully) future car maker, this makes me cry. An engineer worked hard, calculated everything, designer drawn over million sketches, for what? For a beast to sit in a cage, for it’s work to be a dust colector, for someone to make money out of their glory?
It’s fine cuz soo many havr already been driven to hell and back, tuned, blown up, and had fun with. Having a rare one isn’t that bad…
What is wrong with people overpricing cars just because they have low mileage, honestly? What’s next? “This low mileage, low on rust 1995 Honda Civic Si is going to set a price in the high five-figures”?
😂😂 it will definitely happen
This is what puzzles me. The veneno is 10x more expensive than an aventador for a new shell. Guess they are paying for rarity.
I don’t want it… I don’t want it… I NEED IT.
Perfect
Am I the only one who suddenly really wants a Sierra RS500?
Nop, we are 2 now!
I can appreciate an iconic car, and a low mileage engine too. Altho’ its easy to turn back the miles on the meter, old car no computers involved, pretty much you just use your fingers to make it look like it only had 2.000 miles…. anyway.
I really cant appreciate the fact that they sell for so high, when altho’ they were good fast and easy to enjoy cars back in the day, today, they handle and run like a yaris. (dont compare the bhp, if you dont get the point just let it be)
Why? Why would anyone buy a ford for the same money they can get a porche, that if its properly maintained will end up costing 4 times the figures this ford does when its gets “classic” status.
Why would someone looking for a touring car legend from the 80’s buy a mass produced Porsche?
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