http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...ge-Ferrari.html

What a car!!! And what a price. Bet the insurance hurts as well.

Lovely looking car

Personally would have bought the new ferrari california and kept the change though !!

Yep lovely car. Its not red though!

Would prefere a 250GT SWB Berlinetta or 250 LM though. Ooh I'm too picky sometimes...

250 LM for me too!

Lovely car, shame about the new owner.

He seems an ok bloke to me? Car nut, married Billy Piper (despite being ginger), pretty funny, and has come across as being a normal bloke when interviewed e.g when on Top Gear. Don't even mind him on Radio 2 although he comes across as being a bit too sugar coated.

Nice car, guessing he bought it due to history rather than colour

can think of many better things to spend £5million on than a car that would get murdered by a modern hot hatch in all but the posing stakes

Hope he keeps it in his garage an just looks at it, he smashed his 550m Nicolas Cage has a california too
Was it a cali in ferris buller`s day off?

yep - it was a GT california in Ferris Bueller


Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller......Bueller?

hardly think anyone's going to buy one for the performance!

Anyone who can afford to spend £5m on a car, can afford something quicker if necessary...it's about the style, not the speed He has a personal fortune of £45m est

It's an investment too...
http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=17516&intcmp=rss_4car_news

Damn - so thats who outbid me for the car on ebay!! I went as high as £4.9M . . .so close

Can't rally see how it's an investment. He's paid over the odds for it and if the classic car markets tanks like it did in the last recession....

I remember him buying Piper an F360 as her first car. He's a serious car nut. He used to live in the same appartment block as my sister years ago. Remember seeing his 355.

Lucky guy. Never found him funny but then you don't need talent to get rich - just look at Simon Cowell!

I doubt whether the investment potential crossed his mind for even a nanosecond.

He wanted it.
He had the money.
He bought it.

End of.

The only difference between him and any of us is the scale of magnitude.

I agree with you. I was referring to Vicksters article.

Recession makes little difference to really rich people - I don't think Mittal and Abramovich are concerned about the credit crunch or their property going down in value...Any super rare car will go for big money IMO

Just reviving this - Seems Chris is a real PetrolHead after all.....

That joins his recent Elan +2 and a Vauxhall Manta! Nice to see its not just the super/hypercars he is in to.

and its matches the colour of the other ones.

Appart from the red 599 to the left. I thought he was gonna get rid of lots of his white fleet?

He did but still has a few....Think he bought a none white California as well. I did hear he was really good with the Coburn Ferrari at Brooklands letting people sit in it etc. Not just fenced off from everyone...

I think you're right.
He had a Dino way back in the '90s before the rest of the world decided what a wonderful cla$$ic they are.

I bet there are also a load of closet petrolheads too. I mean if I was rich and famous it is hard to imagine not choosing a Maserati Quattroporte as a daily runner but most want the world to think they prefer the anonymity of a Germanobox.