2019 Ford GT with just 9 miles and $61,000 worth of options fetched mammoth price at auction, and still didn't meet reserve

A few years ago, somebody bought this Ford GT for half a million dollars and kept it for six years without ever driving it.

This supercar was just sold with only nine miles on the odometer.

This must be a record.

The price it fetched at auction isn’t a record, but it was still mighty impressive, and yet it still wasn’t enough.

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You can’t simply buy (or sell) a Ford GT

The Ford GT is one of those cars that you can’t just go out and buy, and you can’t even sell it – at least not right away.

You can’t buy it new – or more accurately, you couldn’t back then – because Ford only sold it to approved customers.

Both the first-generation model and the second-generation version that followed a decade later were limited-edition vehicles, and Ford cherry-picked the customers it sold them to.

For exactly the same reason, you couldn’t sell it.

The Ford GT – like other vehicles of this kind – came with a very strict no-resale clause that you couldn’t ignore.

Some people tried, including John Cena, and they ended up in court.

Still, on the bright side, all Ford GTs are now free of their no-resale clauses.

These clauses generally lasted 24 months, and the last Ford GT was delivered over two years ago.

You could definitely buy the one you see here, but it wasn’t cheap

The GT featured here is a 2019 model with nine (!) miles on the clock, finished in a beautiful shade of Liquid Red with Frozen White stripes, complemented by ‘Dark Energy’ interior and matching black wheels.

It came with over $61,000 worth of options.

Among other things, it comes with the Exterior Carbon Fiber Gloss Package and 20-inch carbon-fiber wheels for $30,000 in total, and bespoke titanium exhaust tips, which cost $10,000.

Even the Frozen White stripes weren’t free: they cost $10,000.

When new, the base price was $491,500, but the options raised the total cost to $553,000.

It fetched $755,000 and still didn’t sell because that wasn’t enough to meet reserve.