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In January 2022, we noted the $1.9M sale result for a Guards Red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT with just 780 miles as the most expensive car ever sold on Bring a Trailer. At the time, Hagerty’s #1 (concours) pricing for the CGT was $1.5M, so the result wasn’t just notable for the online sales platform; it marked yet another reshuffling of the valuation deck for Porsche’s mid-engine supercar. “At this rate,” we reported, “the Carrera GT could soon be more valuable than the venerable 959.”
Much has changed in the realm of high-dollar Porsches in the last 4.5 years. For starters, the very best Carrera GTs are now valued at $3.45M in our price guide, a 200% increase over that quaint valuation of yore. (There’s a reason Hagerty tapped the CGT for its 2026 Bull Market list as one to watch: When that story appeared at the start of the year, top money was around $2M.) Heck, the $1.5M examples are now the #4 (fair) condition cars. Incidentally, the high figure for CGTs is just fifty grand shy of the best 959 Komfort models.
For BAT’s part, another 36 cars have eclipsed that 2022 result. Tops among them is a 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO that sold earlier this month for $6.8M. Next is a $5.36M Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta from May 2022. And that brings us to the Fayence Yellow 2005 Carrera GT that sold this week for $4,575,500, including fees.
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That is big money for, well, anything, but this car’s 9250-mile odometer reading isn’t exactly in keeping with the type of pickled and pristine condition one might expect for a million bucks over a “best in the world” valuation. But it sure is yellow, and that counts for a lot here.
From 2004 to 2007, Porsche built 1270 copies of its flagship supercar, which blended cutting edge, motorsport-derived construction, like a carbon fiber monocoque, with a good old-fashioned naturally aspirated 5.7-liter V-10, a six-speed manual transmission, and rear-wheel drive. With plenty of real buttons in the sumptuous cabin, and not one of them hooked up to stability control, this was a 205-mph supercar that demanded owners as committed to the driving experience as the car was.
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About half of CGT production (644) came to North America, and Porsche offered the car in five standard colors: Basalt Black, Seal Grey, GT Silver Metallic, Guards Red, and Fayence Yellow. Buyers also had the option to utilize Porsche Paint to Sample (PTS), and 19 such customized examples came over. The standard imports break down as 362 silver, 103 black, 64 grey, 44 yellow, and 42 red.
Color is big pricing factor in the Porsche world, and the current high sale for a Carrera GT, at $6.7M, belongs to a PTS Gulf Blue ’05 model sold in March by Broad Arrow at the Amelia Auction. Somewhat curiously, until this week, the high seller among standard cars was a silver one sold by RM Sotheby’s earlier this year in Miami for $3.3M. To be fair, its 603 original miles certainly had something to do with that.
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Hagerty had tracked seven previous results for Fayence Yellow cars dating back to 2012, with a high in 2024 of less than $2M. So what sparked big bidding on this one? Overall, the car appeared to be in terrific shape, so given the mileage, the rare color is the safe bet. BAT reports the seller-dealer—the car’s fifth owner—purchased it this year and has only added a hundred miles to it since. It took six minutes for bidding to eclipse $1M, and two hours before the first commenter predicted it would be a $4.5M car, with a reply shortly after effectively stating, “Not with those miles.” Then it hit $3.5M.
In the two decades since the Carrera GT came out, well-heeled enthusiasts have taken stock of all its analog attributes, now nearly lost from the automotive landscape. Raw, visceral, modern machinery like the Carrera GT is increasingly appealing. When it’s painted in a rare, eye-catching color, such enthusiasts are clearly prepared to open their wallets.
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