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January 14, 2026
From track-only monsters to ultra-rare road cars, seven wildcard lots set to steal the spotlight at RM Sotheby’s Paris auction.
Every time another RM Sotheby's auction comes around, we dive headfirst into the listings like a kid on a mail order candy website, looking for the rarities, the unreal specs, and the estimates that accompany them. The RM Sotheby’s Paris sale on 28 January 2026 is set with an eclectic arsenal of incredible cars from bespoke supercars and hyper-rare limited editions to competition-bred machines turned road-legal. There are of course iconic classics alongside endless Ferraris and Porsches, but for this list, we've decided to focus on some wildcards you really don't see every day. If they made more than 100, it ain't coming in!
€900,000 - €1,200,000 EUR
A modern Ferrari that’s already a collector’s icon, so perhaps not a real wildcard, but it’s often forgotten in favour of the tin-top 599 GTO. The SA Aperta was created to honour Sergio and Andrea Pininfarina — hence the SA initials — with just 80 examples built. This example, originally delivered to China, is finished in stunning Extra Campionario Blu Elettrico with the characteristic silver mirrors, A pillars and buttresses seen on many Apertas. Sharing its drivetrain with the insane 599 GTO, the SA Aperta is a rare blend of open-air grand touring and brutal, almost analogue performance performance, making it one of the most desirable post-millennium Ferraris.
With an estimate of €900,000 - €1,200,000 EUR, this isn’t wildly higher than the $927,500 USD achieved by the 599 GTO sold at November’s Abu Dhabi auction, despite the Aperta being seven times rarer.
€425,000 - €475,000 EUR
This certainly is a wildcard, and might only be known by some because of video games. This brings back memories of it being the fastest car you could use on the original Test Drive Unlimited! America’s first true supercar, the Saleen S7 was hand-built in the U.S. and remains a symbol of domestic high-performance engineering, even if it was never a mainstream rival to the big brands.
The S7 has a 7.0-litre naturally aspirated V8 producing 550 hp, and benefits from a $26,385 Saleen-fitted suspension, clutch, and shifter upgrade. With 0-60 acceleration in the low 3-second range and a top speed around 200mph, the S7 was a serious bit of kit back in 2003, and is becoming an increasingly collectible piece of U.S. automotive history. Approximately 72 S7s were ever built, of which just 22 were this naturally aspirated version. This Paris-bound example has barely turned a wheel in its 23 year life with a very specific 801.9 miles on the clock and has an estimate range just shy of half a million Euros.
€380,000 - €420,000 EUR
Like the Saleen, many of us know RUF from gaming when Gran Turismo didn’t have the licence to include Porsches in its early games. A rare high-water-mark RUF creation, the Rt12 S is a serious machine. With a twin-turbo 3.8-litre flat-six producing 676 hp, four-wheel drive (rear-wheel drive was an option very few customers opted for), full rollcage, and a six-speed manual, this is a rush of raw performance and bespoke engineering.
The RT12 was produced in extremely limited numbers, with some sources claiming just 13! Kept mostly in RUF’s ownership until 2015 and accompanied by service books and authenticity certificate, this is standout showcase from the pinnacle of Porsche-based tuners. Funnily enough, with a healthy 40,000km on the clock, this car’s estimate is very similar to the sale price of Porsche’s own flagship turbocharged 997, the slightly less powerful and much less rare GT2 RS, at last year’s Paris auction.
€650,000 - €800,000 EUR
The Murciélago is really having its day as popularity and values rise, but this isn’t any Murcielago. One of roughly 16 R-GT GT1 Murciélagos ever built, this example is a true competition car with history, having raced in the inaugural Asian Le Mans Series in 2009. The series consisted of two 500km races at Okayama, of which it won the GT1 class in race one and came second in race two, claiming the class title.
Converted for road use and UK registered, it blends motorsport provenance with a rare chance to enjoy a genuine GT1-derived machine on public roads, accompanied by the most wonderful V12 soundtrack. Perhaps even more appealing is the door it opens to series like Masters Endurance Legends, Historic Sportscar Racing in the United Stares, and Endurance Racing Legends with Peter Auto, including its race at the Le Mans Classic.
An estimate range of €650,000 - €800,000 EUR puts it modestly stronger than the road-going Murciélago Roadster which sold for $651,875 USD in Abu Dhabi in November.
€2,200,000 - €2,600,000 EUR
Another V12-powered race car, this time from Modena and with a much higher pricetag. One of just two 550 Maranello-derived GTC cars commissioned by Ferrari and developed by N.Technology, this chassis (No. 2102) has an illustrious competition resume, including leading the 24 Hours of Spa and class wins in European hillclimb championships. Ferrari Classiche certified and retaining its original matching-numbers drivetrain, it’s also eligible for a raft of historic GT events, making it both a trophy and track-ready classic.
The estimate well over €2 million is far from cheap, but there’s no repeating this one and it’ll be interesting to see what it achieves.
€2,750,000 - €3,250,000 EUR
We’ve spoken at length about SLRs being undervalued, but there’s no chance of that with this one. A celebration of the legendary British racer and the 300 SLR he drove to victory at the 1955 Mille Miglia, the Stirling Moss edition of the SLR bares little aesthetic resemblence to the ‘standard’ car. It is is an ultra-limited, roofless halo car bespoke coachwork and all the straight-performance of the regular SLR, plus a bit thanks to a 200kg diet. It’s one of the most collectible modern Mercedes with just 75 examples ever built, and paved the way for the likes of the Ferrari Monza, McLaren Elva and Aston Martin Speedster.
That scarcity, the story behind it and the near certainty that there will never be another Stirling Moss edition car means an estimate in the region of €3 million EUR!
€4,000,000 - €6,000,000 EUR
A unicorn even among hypercars, the track-only Bugatti Bolide is one of just 40 built and represents the most extreme interpretation of Bugatti’s quad-turbo 8.0-litre W16, developing around 1,600hp and looking like a race car that’s travelled back in time from 2073. with a dry weight of 1,450kg, it’s exceptionally light by Bugatti standards, and can pummel you to 62mph in just 2.2 seconds, before the new suspension and aero setup helps you pull nearly 2.5 G through high-speed corners, with nearly three tonnes of peak downforce possible.
This “as-new” example has covered merely 112 km and comes with extensive accessories including flight cases and spare wheels Its aerodynamically honed carbon fibre body and prototype-level engineering make the Bolide more akin to LMP1 hardware than a conventional road car, and its rarity and performance make it one of the marquee lots of the sale.
