Friday 9 October, Approach Golf, Knokke-Heist. Broad Arrow's second Zoute Concours Auction grossed €35.6m with 91 per cent of more than 90 lots sold, the largest collector car auction Belgium has ever staged [1][13]. A year earlier the inaugural sale made €26.3m at 78 per cent [13]. Registered bidders were up more than 44 per cent, over a third of them new to the house, and they came from 33 countries [1]. The room grew, and so did the money.
The Holy Trinity: €10.28m for three cars
Sold one at a time rather than as a set, the hybrid trio accounted for €10.28m, almost 30 per cent of the day's total. The McLaren P1 went first at €1,890,625, the Paint-to-Sample Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach followed at €3,212,500, and the Grigio Ferro Metallizzato LaFerrari closed the sale. Bidding opened at €2m, quickly passed €4m and finished at a €4.6m hammer price, equivalent to €5,181,250 including buyer's premium: a Belgian auction record for a collector car [1][14].
Market check: strong for Europe, short of America
Against a €4m–5m estimate [2], the LaFerrari landed about two per cent above the €5,067,500 RM Sotheby's achieved in Monaco in April for a 12,042 km Signal Green car [7]. The Zoute car had more on the clock, 13,069 km, but also a battery pack replaced under Ferrari's LaFerrari Power Warranty in August [2], which goes some way to explaining the premium. The best American results sit far higher: $8,695,000 at Monterey in August and $8,580,000 for a 57-mile car in May [9], roughly €7.4–7.5m.
The 918 Weissach, number 142 of 918 and showing 18,870 km, hammered at €2.85m, inside its €2.6m–3m estimate, for €3,212,500 with premium [2][14]. In the US, a 1,267-mile Paint-to-Sample Weissach made $4,680,000 at Air|Water in April [10], around €4m, and Mecum's one-off Pure Orange car set the model record at $6,050,000 in January [11]. Mileage accounts for most of the gap.
The P1 was the outlier. At 293 km, with one registered owner and McLaren Brussels servicing from new [2], it hammered at €1.675m, towards the top of its €1.4m–1.8m estimate, for €1,890,625 with premium [14]. The last comparable European result, at Broad Arrow's Zürich sale in November 2025, was CHF 1,108,750 for a 14,000 km car [12], about €1.2m. Roughly 60 per cent more for the low-mileage example: in Europe, the odometer is doing the talking.
One rung down, the Guards Red Carrera GT made €2,762,500 [1], more than the €2,255,000 RM Sotheby's achieved in Monaco in April [8], though its €2.45m hammer fell short of a €2.7m–3.3m estimate [2][14]. Strong for Europe is not the same as strong against the catalogue.
The X-Pack: €647,500 and a new benchmark
The surprise of the afternoon. Chassis SCFCV81V2HTL12572, a 1987 Aston Martin V8 Vantage X-Pack in Cannock Black, is one of 137 Series III X-Pack Vantages, built in left-hand drive for West Germany, with a five-speed manual and 14,197 km [2][3]. Estimated at €300,000–400,000, it hammered at €570,000, more than 40 per cent above the top estimate, for €647,500 with premium [1][14]. By Broad Arrow's account, that is an auction record for a V8 Vantage coupé.
For perspective, the median public result for an X-Pack saloon since 2020 is about £312,000, and the best earlier sales sit between £330,000 and £370,000, led by £366,080 at Historics in September 2024 [4]. RM Sotheby's sold a right-hand-drive automatic needing recommissioning for £241,250 in London in 2024 [5], and a high-mileage right-hand-drive manual went unsold on Collecting Cars in May [6]. At roughly £548,000 [4], the Zoute car paid about 75 per cent over the median.
Why so much? Specification and preparation. Most X-Packs that reach the market are right-hand-drive UK cars; this one is left-hand drive, manual, low-mileage and freshly recommissioned, with more than €17,000 spent in France in 2024–25 [3]. One caveat for the new owner: the car was offered on a temporary import bond, so keeping it in the EU adds duty and VAT to the price [3].
Prototypes and one-offs
The rarest car in the sale was an E39 BMW M5 that Dr. Ferdinand Piëch had fitted with a Volkswagen W10 engine. The experimental W10 formed part of Volkswagen's wider W-engine programme, which also produced the W8, W12 and Bugatti W16. Only three prototype W10 engines were built and this is the only car that ever carried one; Piëch used it as his personal car through the engine's development [1]. It hammered at €360,000 against a €250,000–350,000 estimate and made €411,250 including premium, a world record for any E39 and the highest price yet for a non-charity M5 at auction [1][14]. A modern Kimera EVO37, reportedly completed in 2025 and catalogued under its 1976 donor identity, sold for €1,131,250 [1][15]. The 1990 MCA Centenaire was reportedly the second example completed; production records are inconsistent, with roughly three to five original Lamborghini-powered Centenaires generally cited within a wider family of 16 related MCA and Méga derivatives [1][16]. It hammered at €725,000 against €900,000–1.2m, €821,875 with premium [2][14].
Below the headline
Ferrari filled out the rest of the top ten: an 812 Competizione at €1,496,875, a 599 GTO at €1,131,250, a 1964 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso at €1,075,000 and a 488 Pista Piloti Ferrari at €838,750, with a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster at €1,041,250 among them [1]. A 2016 Porsche 911 R hammered at approximately €475,000, 5.6 per cent above its €450,000 high estimate, and made €540,625 including premium [14]. A 1997 Aston Martin Virage 6.3 Volante Wide Body hammered at €230,000 against a €100,000–150,000 estimate and made €264,500 including premium [2][14]. The 1990s poster cars held firm: a Jaguar XJ220 at €512,500, a 1984 Lamborghini Countach 5000 S at €692,500 and a 1992 Diablo at €343,750 [1][14]. The highest-estimated car not to sell was a €1.7m–2m 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing [2].
Provenance and automobilia
A 2000 BMW Z8 once owned by seven-time Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras sold for €287,500, and a 1951 Cadillac Series 62 convertible from the garage of Belgium's King Baudouin made €44,850. Away from the cars, an ex-Allan McNish 2002 Toyota Formula One engine went well beyond its estimate at €50,000 [1].
Prices include buyer's premium unless stated; Broad Arrow hammer figures are derived from its published totals. Dollar conversions are approximate, at €1 to $1.16. Broad Arrow's European season continues with the Zürich Auction on 7 November [1].
