£97million Ferrari sold

[Matthew_T]

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/ferrari-built-for-stirling-moss-sells-for-world-record-£22m.html

Just staggering really.

 

[biggs682]

very nice , not very pratical

 

[musa]

I've got one to sell

Let me look in my shoebox

 

[Archie_tect]

I wouldn'r be at all surprised that old Ferraris have become fashionable purchases, with Chris Evans doing everything he can to market them through his Radio 2 programme. The man is a master of self publicity and hype. Irritating though he is.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That's nothing, I got £900 for our old Astra a couple of years ago.

 

[mickle]

£22.7 million, not £97...

 

[Nihal]

Whats the point,its still got only four wheels like any other car

 

[Archie_tect]

It's rich people needing to own something no-one else can have... nothing to do with the car. Like someone paid £50 million for that copy of Munch's The Scream. They're idiots.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's rich people needing to own something no-one else can have... nothing to do with the car. Like someone paid £50 million for that copy of Munch's The Scream. They're idiots.

Someone sounds a bit chippy.

 

[JtB]

It's not even in red!

 

[gaz]

£22.7 million, not £97...

Indeed, it was £97 mill for 6

 

[Smokin Joe]

It's rich people needing to own something no-one else can have... nothing to do with the car. Like someone paid £50 million for that copy of Munch's The Scream. They're idiots.

Not if what they spend is easily affordable.

Call it wealth redistribution.

 

[Archie_tect]

But they just pass it round among themselves with no obvious benefit except the auction houses that charge them commission and VAT.

 

[Smokin Joe]

But they just pass it round among themselves with no obvious benefit except the auction houses that charge them commission and VAT.

Auction houses are as much part of the economy as any other business and HMG cops the VAT. What's not to like?

 

[Rapples]

and HMG cops the VAT. What's not to like?

VAT hits the poor the hardest