Ferrari has officially announced the 2025 Legacy Tour, this time honouring the F50 — one of Maranello’s most technically ambitious and historically underappreciated halo cars. The tour will take place over five days, from 1 to 5 October, across the Italian Dolomites, offering an immersive blend of driving, curation, and direct support from the Ferrari Classiche program.

Following in the footsteps of previous Legacy Tours for the 250 Series and the F40, this event is more than a celebration. It’s a strategic exercise in registry building, documentation, and owner network consolidation — and it marks a turning point for the F50’s long-term position in the Ferrari hierarchy.

Launched in 1995 to commemorate Ferrari’s 50th anniversary, the F50 was designed not to be faster than the F40, but to be purer. It borrowed its 4.7L naturally aspirated V12 directly from the 1990 Ferrari 641 Formula 1 car, mounted it to a carbon fibre monocoque, and offered it to the public with no power steering, no ABS, no traction control, and only a six-speed manual gearbox.

Just 349 examples were built — all delivered to hand-picked clients — and for decades, the F50 was considered the most misunderstood of the halo line-up. But that sentiment has changed.

Today, the F50 is viewed by sophisticated collectors as the most technically honest of Ferrari’s big five, and one of the few cars where road and race DNA are truly inseparable.

The Legacy Tour isn’t just a lifestyle event. It’s a platform through which Ferrari:

• Validates provenance and technical configuration through on-site Classiche inspection
  
  

• Captures historical and restoration detail for registry consolidation
  
  

• Reconnects long-term holders and vehicles that may not be publicly known
  
  

• Curates an experience that reaffirms the brand's support of the F50 as a cultural asset
  
  

Previous Ferrari Legacy Tours — such as the 2022 F40 Legacy Tour and 2023’s 250 Series event — have led to noticeable increases in market activity, with Classiche-certified cars that participated in official events seeing premium private sales shortly thereafter.

The 2025 F50 edition will further tighten the global circle of known, high-integrity cars — especially those which still retain original paintwork, low mileage, and complete documentation.

As of 2020–2022, the F50 has passed the 25-year threshold for legal import into the United States under the NHTSA’s Show or Display exemption.

This changes the market dynamic significantly:

• EU/UK cars, which previously faced regulatory hurdles, are now legally importable and registrable in the US, particularly early chassis (1995–1996).
  
  

• US buyers, who previously had access only to 55 federal-spec F50s, can now buy from the full global pool — increasing demand for EU cars with desirable spec (non-adjust, early chassis, carbon seats, etc.).
  
  

• As a result, there is cross-border flow out of Europe. Sellers in Germany, the UK, and Switzerland have reported unsolicited offers above EU market norms from US-based buyers and brokers.
  
  

• The bifurcation is beginning: EU-spec, Classiche-certified cars that are already imported or EPA-ready are commanding a premium over comparable US examples, particularly when linked to factory events or heritage documentation.

The Ferrari F50 is now operating as a low-frequency, high-confidence asset — one that exhibits reduced transactional volume but increased value certainty.

As of mid-2025:

• Top EU/ROW examples (Classiche-certified, low mileage, correct original spec) are trading between $4.5M–$5.5M.
  
  

• US-spec cars with moderate mileage are selling between $3.8M–$4.2M.
  
  

• The delta is closing as early EU cars enter the US legally, and many collectors prefer their mechanically unfiltered nature.
  
  

The 2025 Legacy Tour will further solidify the F50’s institutional value. It creates a clear sub-class of vetted cars — similar to what we’ve seen with Cavalcade-registered LaFerraris or 288 GTOs with full provenance inspection. Cars that participate will likely become reference points within the next valuation cycle.

We view the F50 as:

• A Tier 1 core hold in a modern Ferrari collection.
  
  

• An index car for the transition era (analog chassis, F1 powertrain).
  
  

• A cross-border liquid asset that will continue to benefit from global demand, factory support, and deep emotional capital.
  
  

Its closest comparable is no longer the F40 or Enzo.

It's a standalone thesis.