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Ferrari 456 GTA Four-speed automatic
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Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (4) ↓
Published calls on this car
1 call on this model has been published and settled, and graded against what the car actually made.
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,500 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The rarest 456 in right-hand drive and the cheapest V12 Ferrari that exists, with a torque-converter automatic that has no clutch to replace and General Motors internals a competent transmission shop can rebuild. The first Australian result landed in September 2025 at $115,000, so this is no longer a modelled number.
The automatic is the discount, and internationally it is a large one: half to two thirds of the manual, consistently, across fourteen results. Running costs are Ferrari V12 costs on a car worth well under a fifth of a Daytona, so a valve guide job or a failed self-levelling system can exceed the difference between a good car and a bad one. The transmission control unit is the fault that cannot be bought out of. One Australian transaction supports the whole entry.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
On 4 September 2026 a 1997 GTA sold at Baulkham Hills, New South Wales for $67,000 - Grigio Titanio over Nero, 30,765 miles or 49,512 kilometres, UK-delivered in March 1998 and complied here in August 2023. Normalised for the twelve per cent this library docks an import and for distance against the 55,000 this entry expects, that is about $75,500 for an Australian-delivered car. The September 2025 result, $115,000 for an Australian-delivered car at 70,784 kilometres, normalises the other way to about $117,700.
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And this entry no longer pretends otherwise.
Weighted to the newer result rather than split between them, and the reason is that the newer one carries a year of price discovery the older one does not: the same chassis was offered on 9 March 2026 and failed, came back, had its reserve LOWERED during the relist, and still stopped at $67,000. That is a car the market has now answered three times.
The widest miss on its record, and the error was not in the adjustments - it was in leaning the entire structure on a single transaction. The call took the $115,000, docked twelve for import, credited three for kilometres, took eight for market drift and arrived at $98,000 of worth. Every one of those steps was defensible and the anchor underneath them was one sale.
The call reasoned that a relisted car with a visible failure behind it usually means the reserve has moved rather than the market has. On this lot the reserve moved, publicly, mid-auction, and the room still would not go past $67,000. A failed auction followed by a lowered reserve is not a vendor being stubborn; it is the market pricing the car and the vendor arriving at it slowly.
Which is itself the argument that the $115,000 was the odd one. Fourteen GTA results between March 2023 and April 2026 run GBP24,000 to GBP66,245, and the closest comparable in the world - a 1997 GTA in Grigio Titanio, right-hand drive, 43,356 miles, nineteen stamps - made GBP49,000 in May 2025 in the model's home market.
The library already held the six-speed manual and listed GTA automatics priced as manuals among that entry's named risks. Pricing this car off that record would commit the exact error the record warns about. Internationally the automatic trades at roughly half to two thirds of the gated car - Classic.com puts the pre-facelift GT at US$86,088 against the GTA at US$52,672, which is 61 per cent, and the facelift pair at 52 per cent. The sharpest way anyone has put it comes from a review of five years of results: every 456 that sold under US$50,000 was an automatic, and every one that made over US$100,000 was a manual.
On 19 September 2025 a 1997 456 GTA, Australian-delivered, Nero Carbonio over Grey Fern, 70,784 kilometres, sold for $115,000. That is the number this entry is built on and it is the only Australian GTA transaction in the record.
Read against the two Australian manual observations available - a Hong Kong import bid to $96,500 in August 2026 and a car bid to $105,000 without selling in March 2026 - the Australian GTA appears to beat the manual, which would invert the international ratio entirely. It does not. Both manual observations are imports, and this library docks an import twelve per cent on a model Ferrari sold here new. The Australian-delivered manual benchmark is the $200,000 Shannons result of November 2022, one of the 31. Against that, an Australian-delivered GTA at $115,000 is 58 per cent - which is the international ratio almost exactly. The apparent Australian exception is a comparison between an Australian car and two imported ones, and it disappears once the provenance is matched.
403 GTAs were built and 61 of them are right-hand drive, against 1,548 manuals of which 141 are right-hand drive. The automatic is the rarer car in this market by a factor of more than two, and it is the cheaper one. Scarcity is not demand, and this pair is the clearest demonstration of that anywhere in this library.
Thirteen is 22 per cent of right-hand-drive GTA production, which is the same share of right-hand-drive manual production that the 31 Australian cars represent. It is a parallel, not a count, and it should be read as one.
Fourteen GTA results appear between March 2023 and April 2026, at GBP24,000, GBP27,500, GBP30,552, GBP31,500, GBP35,500, GBP49,000, GBP52,757, GBP66,245 and US$45,500 among others, with two no-sales. The best comparable in the world is a 1997 GTA in Grigio Titanio, right-hand drive, 43,356 miles, nineteen service stamps, at GBP49,000 in May 2025. Direction is flat to soft: Hagerty marks the model down 3.9 per cent to January 2026 and the British results decayed across 2025 into 2026.
A cambelt service runs to five figures, a valve guide rebuild is a five-figure sorrow on an engine that used a wear-prone bronze guide, and the self-levelling rear suspension shares its hydraulic reservoir with the power steering, so one leaking damper can take out two systems. Rear dampers alone are about $5,200 the pair in parts. Against a value a fifth of the manual's, those are the same bills.
A four-speed torque-converter automatic built by Ricardo around General Motors internals, the last conventional automatic Ferrari offered. The signature failure is the transmission control unit, and replacement units are now genuinely hard to source - which is a supply problem rather than a money one, and the harder kind to solve.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
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The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
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