Broad Arrow has turned its Villa d’Este auction into a Ferrari fair. If you have ever wondered what happens when Lake Como, old money, new money, and Maranello all get shoved into the same room, this is it. The cheque book should be hidden before anyone starts saying investment-grade in that misty-eyed voice collectors use before doing something expensive.
Ferrari collectors are a peculiar tribe. They can stare at a slightly different stitch colour with the same intensity normal people reserve for medical scans. They know which cars were built in which numbers, who ordered what trim, and whether a plaque sits in the proper place. I say this with affection, because I too have lost hours looking at old Ferraris and dreaming.
The headline temptation here is the 2009 Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spider 16M, one of those special-series Ferraris from the last properly theatrical naturally aspirated era. Broad Arrow says the car is highly specified, with four-point harnesses, a rollover bar, carbon fibre front and rear elements, carbon entry sills, a carbon LED steering wheel trimmed in Alcantara, and Verde deviated stitching. It has fewer than 10,000 kilometres showing, which means someone has had the restraint of a monk and the garage space of a small principality.
The 16M exists because Ferrari won the 2008 Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship. That sort of commemorative logic can become merch very quickly, but the Scuderia Spider 16M had enough mechanical bite to avoid feeling like a numbered ashtray. The result is an open-roof V8 weapon with carbon bits, harnesses, and a cabin that treats dignity as an optional extra, especially where expensive bouffants are concerned.
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ABOVE: Ferrari classics and modern specials from Broad Arrow’s Villa d’Este Auction catalogue.
The Ferrari list gets dangerous
The wider Ferrari list is the dangerous bit. Broad Arrow’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este Auction also includes a 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Boano Alloy Coupe, 1968 Ferrari 330 GTC, 1968 Ferrari 330 GTS, 1972 Dino 246 GT, 1973 Dino 246 GTS, 1979 308 GTS with real “Magnum P.I.” vibes, 1988 328 GTS, 1990 F40, 1993 512 TR, manual 2004 612 Scaglietti, 1996 F512M, 2002 550 Barchetta Pininfarina, 2004 360 Challenge Stradale, 2008 and 2010 599 GTB Fiorano variants, 2022 812 Competizione, and a 2024 SF90 Spider.
That is not a list, it is a controlled demolition of adult judgement. The Boano Alloy Coupe brings the old grand touring glamour, all long bonnet and slim pillars, like something that should be parked outside a villa while somebody inside has a dreadful affair. Meanwhile, the Dino pair is parked in that awkward and irresistible zone where people pretend not to call them Ferraris while paying Ferrari money for them. The F40 remains the poster car, the bedroom wall deity, and the car that made several generations of boys understand desire before they understood tax.
Old money and loud trousers
Then there is the Testarossa family. The 512 TR and F512M are from the era when Ferrari still made Chunky sedges. They bring side strakes, wide hips, pop-up lights, and lods of visual ego. Park one in yellow and it looks less like transport and more like a dare.
At the modern end, the SF90 Spider and 812 Competizione are dragging the room forward without asking permission. The SF90 brings hybrid power and the faint smell of accountants trying to explain complexity as virtue. The 812 Competizione is cleaner in emotional terms, with V12 noise, drama, and the sort of power figure that makes tyre budgets feel like a personal vendetta.
Lake Como is not helping anyone behave
This collection has almost nothing to do with sensible transport, it is history for sale which inadvertently proves investment quality comes from good design. Fashion and trends can lead to classics These cars live in the part of motoring where numbers are only half the conversation. Condition, history, colour, rarity, and timing all matter, then the room becomes a seething mass of panic with paddle numbers.
Philip Kantor, Broad Arrow’s Vice Chairman of Europe and Senior Car Specialist, says the catalogue runs from modern classic supercars to the earliest examples of motoring, aimed at discerning collectors on the shores of Lake Como. Well yes, Philip, that is one way to put it. Another is that Broad Arrow has arranged a very glamorous trap, filled it with Ferraris, and set it beside a lake to put buyers in the mood.
Ferrari’s official world is here: Ferrari’s official world. Broad Arrow’s Villa d’Este catalogue is the auction-world version of opening the wardrobe door and discovering Narnia has better leather, worse impulse control, and a 1990 F40 waiting in the back.
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Alan Zurvas is the founder and editor of Gay Car Boys, Australia's leading LGBTQI+ automotive publication. Before launching GCB in 2008, Alan's automotive writing was published in SameSame.com.au and the Star Observer. With over 16 years of hands-on car reviewing experience, Alan brings an honest, irreverent voice to every review — championing value and innovation over brand loyalty.
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