Ferrari 458 Speciale
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Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (3) ↓
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 last naturally aspirated mid-engined V8 Ferrari, and the market has already separated it from the turbocharged 488: the 458 range clears 86 per cent internationally against the 488's 44. Roughly 3,000 built and an estimated 60 in Australia.
One Australian result is not a market. This figure rests on a single transaction, and on an exceptional car: delivery mileage, Australian-delivered, every option this record scores, and a register that evidences the reading. A typical Speciale has none of those things. These are driven and tracked more than most Ferraris, so provenance work is essential rather than optional, and a tracked car is worth materially less than the figure here. The 2026 divergence cuts both ways - if Australia reverts to right-hand-drive pricing rather than American, the British evidence sits a long way below this number.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
$1,645,400 at Pickles, Belmore, New South Wales, lot 827 - a 2015 car at 1,330km, Australian-delivered, carrying the NART livery stripe, carbon racing seats and Scuderia shields, with a factory maintenance register running to thirteen dated dealer entries. It is the only Speciale to have sold publicly in this country and it closes the largest stated hole this entry ever carried.
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It is recorded as published; on the premium-inclusive reading the hammer sits near $1,543,000.
The Speciale is not a trim on the 458 Italia. It is 90kg lighter, 26kW stronger, and the most focused naturally aspirated mid-engined car Ferrari built. Auction catalogues list both as 458, and pricing one off the other would understate the Speciale by a wide margin, exactly as happened with the 430 Scuderia and the 16M elsewhere in this library.
Monterey week, August 2026: US$1,490,000 for a 1,000-mile car at RM Sothebys, US$1,210,000 at Mecum, US$1,022,500 at Gooding Christies, and US$920,000 for an 11,000-mile car on Bring a Trailer in July - roughly A$1,290,000 to A$2,085,000 converted at 0.7146. The right-hand-drive market did not follow. The one recent public RHD auction result is GBP350,200 for an 18,171km car through Collecting Cars on 30 June 2026, about A$662,000, against British dealer asks of GBP620,000 to GBP650,000 for sub-2,000-mile cars. Australia was assumed to buy in the right-hand-drive pool. On this evidence it does not: this car made American money.
The American results pay about 62 per cent more for a delivery-mileage car than for one at 11,000 miles; the British asks pay about 16 per cent. This sale sits at the American end of that range.
Backed out at the valuer own raw adjustment for this car, +57 per cent, the result implies a base near $1,048,000; at the capped +45 per cent it implies $1,135,000. The two domestic dealer asks on this record, $1,050,000 and $1,199,990, both predate the result and are now stale-low. The CLASSIC.COM benchmark converts to about A$906,000 and lags. $1,000,000 is where those converge, and it is one transaction rather than a market.
The market paid 83 per cent over the old base and the valuer is capped at 45, so most of that gap is the cap and not the base. Raising the base alone does not fix it.
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.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Ferrari 458 Speciale, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.