L'histoire de la façon dont Sally Carrera de Cars est devenue une vraie voiture Porsche (2024)

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How much is the Sally Porsche special worth? ›

On August 20, 2022, in a packed bidding hall at the RM Sotheby's Monterey Auction, the Sally Special was sold for $3.6 million, every last cent of which was donated to charitable causes.

There will only be one 911 Sally Special – and it's the first time that Pixar has supported such a project. The one-off car will be auctioned by RM Sotheby's on Saturday, 20 August 2022 as part of Monterey Car Week in California.

No money changed hands between Porsche and the producers of Cars, Harling says. The filmmakers asked the automaker for permission to use the Carrera's name and image, he says. Porsche liked the marketing tie-in, Harling says. But its bosses also were pleased that the film's executives understood the car company.

A one-off equipped 911 with dozens of unique parts and finishes specifically designed for the car and created in collaboration between Pixar and Porsche, the car sold for $3.6M at the Sotheby's auction at Monterey.

The golden-coloured $3.6-million (US$2.7 million) Porsche 911 reimagined by Singer, Dynamics and Lightweighting Study (DLS) Turbo, seemed to glow under the lights at the Pfaff Motorsports workshop.

Those race cars are now considered the most expensive Porsches in the world. The legendary 1970 Porsche 917K holds the public record, as the Gulf Racing livery #22 from Le Mans sold for an astronomical $14,080,000.

As the earliest Porsche sports car, and with a direct lineage to today's 911s, it could be worth $20 million to $25 million, according to experts at Hagerty, a company that insures collectible cars. That would make it the most valuable Porsche ever sold.

Jerry Seinfeld's car collection is known to be one of the biggest Porsche collections in the US.

Its buyers are 86.8% male with the average age of 51 and median income of $390,000."

Porsche AG and its initial public offering

At the time of its listing at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 29 September 2022, it was Europe's biggest IPO by market capitalisation. As a result of the IPO, Porsche SE and the Porsche-Piëch family now hold direct ownership over the Porsche brand.

How many Sally Porsches were made? ›

Porsche 911 Sally Special Only one Porsche 911 Sally Special will ever be made.

Although his design is inspired by various real vehicles including NASCAR, his overall appearance resembles a C6 Chevrolet Corvette, Dodge Viper (SR II), and Ford GT (2005).

Sally and McQueen's feelings for each other grow stronger throughout Cars, with the two entering a relationship near the end of the film. Sally appears again in Cars 2 and Cars 3 as a supporting character.

By that, we mean most expensive version and we arrived at a not-insignificant sum of – wait for it – $374,600. It's easily the priciest Porsche 911 in the 992 family by a wide margin, and for that matter, the most expensive new Porsche currently for sale, full stop.

The vehicle in question is a 964-generation 911 Turbo, produced for only the 1993 and 1994 model years. At an auction organized by Mecum, the car fetched a total of $1.4 million, inclusive of the buyer's commission.

UPDATE [17/01/22]: The 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo featured in Bad Boys and previously owned by director Michael Bay has officially sold for US$1.3 million (AU$1.8 million).