The auction house RM Sotheby’s yesterday lowered the virtual hammer for the online auction of the cars that Diego Maradona used in Dubai. Its about BMW i8 Coupe and from Rolls-Royce Ghost, for which it was expected to receive total offers above the 230 one thousand dollars.
In the end, the two cars owned by the Argentine footballer – who died last November – got a new owner for values lower than expected: the Rolls-Royce was sold for 140 thousand dollars (offers between 120 thousand and 150 thousand were expected) and the BMW changed hands for only 40 thousand dollars (they forecast offers between 60 thousand and 80 thousand).
These two were Maradona’s personal vehicles while he lived in Dubai, between 2011 and 2018. After the footballer’s death, the heirs repeatedly mentioned these cars as part of the patrimony to be distributed among the relatives.
However, according to Sotheby’s, this is not true.
Maradona would have sold the cars in 2018 and his buyer was the one who just sold them at this auction. The name of that owner or the new owners of the cars did not come out.
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BMW i8 COUPE (2014)
It is chassis number WBY2Z2108FVX90487, with original documentation that mentions as the first owner “Mr. Diego Armando Maradona”. Even the car patent (Q71699) matches the archive photos showing Ten, his then partner. Olive dew and the biographer Daniel arcucci next to the car. While in Maradona’s possession, the car traveled 10,500 kilometers. The BMW i8 was manufactured between 2014 and 2020. A total of 20,465 units were produced. It has a three-cylinder 1.5 turbonaftero engine (228 hp and 320 Nm) and an electric one (131 hp and 250 Nm), which when working in combination offer a maximum performance of 357 hp and 570 Nm. It can circulate in fully electric mode up to a maximum speed of 120 km / h and in hybrid mode it reaches 250 km / h.
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ROLLS-ROYCE GHOST (2016)
This is chassis number SCA664S00GUX41952, with original documentation that mentions as the first owner “Mr. Diego Armando Maradona”. Even the car’s patent (R25787) matches the archive photos showing Diez, Oliva and Arcucci next to the car. The sample belongs to the Ghost Series II and is painted in Arabian Blue. While in Maradona’s power, the car traveled 5,000 kilometers. It has a BMW V12 6.6 bi-turbonaftero engine (571 hp and 780 Nm). It accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in 5.5 seconds and its top speed is limited to 250 km / h.
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All Diego Maradona’s cars, in this section of Autoblog.
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