Study 179: Forty Million for Chassis 0: The Auction That Refuted Our Own Reading of It

The first production example of Ferrari's first electric car sold at RM Sotheby's Monterey on 15 August 2026 for forty million dollars, roughly thirty-six times its pre-sale estimate and sixty-two times its list price, with the buyer's premium waived and every dollar directed to the Ferrari Foundation. This study grades the institution's own prior reading of the sale, published a month before it occurred, and finds it half right. The claim that firstness is a decreed rather than earned scarcity survives the result. The claim that the sale was an instance of Speculative Velocity does not, becau