Most expensive British car ever sold goes for $22.5 million

MONTEREY, Calif. (Heartland Newsfeed/UPI) — During an auction at Monterey Car Week in California this past weekend, the most expensive British car ever sold exchanged hands for the sum of $22.5 million.

According to a report from the British newspaper The Telegraph, the 1956 teal and white Aston Martin DBR1 was sold to an unnamed buyer who called into the auction to place bids. Aston Martin enthusiasts consider the DBR1 as the best model produced in the car manufacturer’s storied history.

Between 1956 and 1958, only five DBR1s were manufactured, based on a design developed by racing design chief Ted Cutting to be entered into the race at Le Mans. This particular DBR1 had been driven by legendary race car drivers Sir Stirling Moss and Jack Fairman.

“The DBR1 absolutely epitomizes the pinnacle of racing achievement for Aston Martin,” said Aston Martin historian Stephen Archer in Sotheby’s short film about the car. “The perfection of design, by a small highly talented team, there’s nothing you can look at in the DBRI and say ‘maybe they could have done that a bit differently.’ No, it’s actually perfect, everywhere on that car.”

Prior to the sale of the DBR1, the most expensive British car sold was a 1956 Le Mans-winning Jaguar D-Type, which sold for $21.7 million. Currently, the most expensive car in the world is a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, which sold for $52 million in 2013.

UPI writer Ray Downs contributed to this report.

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