FERRARI CALIFORNIA: BUYER'S GUIDE
Median Price: £77,415 • Highest Price: £299,347 • Lowest Price: £46,364 • Sell-Through Rate: 80%
Source: Collecting Cars
How much is a California worth?
In our experience, we've seen plenty of California's go under the hammer and based on analysing every sale you can expect to pay £77,415 for one in average condition - that places it amongst the most expensive 10% of collector cars across our database.
As Ferrari's go, a California is on the lower end relative to other Ferrari models. In fact this model is £29,415 below the median Ferrari price of £106,829.
What is the maximum to pay for a California?
Across the 156 California's we've seen sell, the highest price ever recorded for this model is £299,347. It was sold by Artcurial in France on 06 Feb 2016.
What is the lowest to pay for a California?
The lowest sale of all time for this vehicle is £46,364, Collecting Cars sold this car in the UK on 07 Nov 2024.
What is the background of the make / model?
Ferrari produced this model between 2009 and 2015.
Ferrari is one of the world’s most admired luxury sports car manufacturers. The company officially launched in 1947.
However, the automaker’s legendary founder and namesake Enzo Ferrari was involved in the industry long before then.
Born in Modena, Italy in 1898, Enzo Ferrari started out as a race car driver. In the 1920s, he was made a driver with Alfa Romeo.
In 1929, Ferrari founded Scuderia Ferrari, now the official race car division for Ferrari. It began, however, as a division of Alfa that specialised in preparing race cars to gentlemen drivers.
In 1939, Enzo left his position as Head of Alfa Corse to form his own car company Auto Avio Costruzioni in his hometown of Modena, Italy with an agreement not to use the Ferrari name for at least 4 years.
Honouring his word, the company name was changed to Auto Costruzioni Ferrari in 1957. The first car to bare the name Ferrari was released the Ferrari 125 S in 1947 and they’ve been doing so ever since.
How common is a California?
According to data from the DVLA, the UK licensing authority, in 2022 there were 1,260 licensed vehicles alive and kicking on UK roads. There were also 246 vehicles that are SORNd - in other words not currently registered for the road. Note: that data is for this model and all of its sub-models.
Building on that, we've also seen plenty of these go under the hammer at auctions around the world, 195 to be precise. It's among the 6% most common collector cars to sell at auction.
Of those 195 times the model has gone to auction 156 have sold. In other words, this model sells on 80% of times it goes to auction - that's above the average sell-through rate we traditionally see.
How does the California compare to other cars?
We know from reviews of this model by our 42,000+ strong community how this car performs across multiple variables. Those variables stack up to give a TCVScore which is a relative score of how good a car is across 5 variables in comparison to all other cars.
For the California, it scores a 60 out of 100 - that places it in the top 60% of all cars in our database.
How the car scores across all variables is below:
Styling: 7/10
Cool Factor: 5/10
Practicality: 4/10
Handling: 7/10
Speed: 7/10
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Why this article was created
Well, we've got one of the largest databases of sold classic car prices in the world so we thought we ought to help and put that data to good use. To be clear though, this article is not intended to be a full tour of every nook and sill of the California, rather it's meant to act as an introductory guide and overview of the market for this model.
It is here to provide you guidance on how much you should and shouldn't be paying for one based on the 195 we've seen previously.
If you're after more detail, we've got you covered. Click the button below to be taken to a the price guide for this model so you can see every single sale, price trend over time and lots more.
How this article was created
This article was created by looking back at sales of California since the beginning of our database in 1992. We've scanned over 30 auction houses and results from over £15 billion of sold cars around the world to understand the where the market is at for this car.
The Classic Valuer takes that data and analytics which enables it to generate these articles at scale, for further information regarding the California please visit the price guide linked below.
About The Author
Giles Gunning
Giles is CEO of The Classic Valuer - one of the world's largest databases of sold classic cars in the world going back over 30 years covering over 11,000 models. Giles and The Classic Valuer are regularly referenced in key classic car publications including Classic & Sports Car.
Giles grew up around the iconic historic motorsport venue at Goodwood and enjoys his 1972 Alfa Romeo 1600 GT Junior around the Sussex roads. His primary car goal is to purchase back a selection of his grandfather's car's including his 1931 Riley Brooklands.
