Ralph Lauren: Ferrari 250 GTO, 250 TR, McLaren F1 LM & Bugatti 57 SC models

Ralph Lauren's Ferrari 250 GTO model - just $9500

One of the joys of success in life for a petrolhead is the ability to indulge in your love for cars. And few people have been as successful as designer Ralph Lauren, nor indulged in a car collection quite as stunning.

Ralph owns a collection of more that 70 stunning cars, and as a little money-earner – and a treat for car fans – has had four of his cars faithfully recreated as 1/8th scale models.

But these scale models aren’t just up-scale Dinky toys. They’ve been faithfully recreated using digital scans of Ralph’s cars to create models of enormous detail down to 1/10th of a millimetre and took 3000 hours to perfect.

Ralph has chosen the Ferrari 250 GTO – a car probably worth north of £20 million and similar to the 250 GTO Chris Evans recently bought – as the star of his model collection. But the other models aren’t far behind – if at all.

There’s a Ferrari 250 Testa Rosso as well, similar to one which sold in 2009 for €9 million, and a Bugatti 57 SC Atlantic Coupe, which at one time held the record for the highest price fetched at auction – $30 million.

But perhaps the rarest car is the McLaren F1 LM. McLaren made just five F1 LMs (well, they actually made six, but the sixth is a prototype and still owned by McLaren). The LM was a road-going version of the F1 GTR and of the five built three are owned by the Sultan of Brunei (two black, one orange), one is in the ZAZ Museum in Japan and the fifth is Ralph’s car. And probably worth at least £10 million.

So if you’re wondering what to get the petrolhead in your life for Christmas, now you’ve solved it.

Just as long as you don’t mind spending $9500. Each.

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By Cars UK