Ferrari's Only Factory Matte-Black Enzo Is for Sale, and Nobody Will Put a Number on ItBackfire NewsEve NowellSat, September 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTCAdd us on GoogleFerrari's Only Factory Matte-Black Enzo Is for Sale, and Nobody Will Put a Number on ItSomewhere in a climate-controlled facility in Ontario sits a Ferrari that shouldn't technically exist on paper. Ferrari built exactly 399 examples of the Enzo between 2002 and 2004, and every customer who wanted something other than red, yellow or black had to ask nicely and pay for the privilege. Exactly one asked for matte black. That car, chassis 136069, is now moving through RM Sotheby's Sealed platform from September 23 through September 30, and true to that format's low-key approach, the auction house isn't publishing a price guess. It's simply going to sell, or it isn't.The Only Enzo That Skipped Ferrari's Paint MenuFerrari's standard Enzo order sheet offered Rosso Corsa, Giallo Modena or Nero. Anything else meant a special request, and only one customer, a member of Brunei's royal family, asked for Matte Nero Opaco. Construction on chassis 136069 began on June 8, 2004, and the finished car was delivered that October over a matching Nero leather interior with oversized seats and Rosso-faced gauges. It spent its early years at the family's London residence, making the occasional appearance around Hampstead, Mayfair and Knightsbridge, before relocating to the Asia-Pacific region.The car returned to Europe in 2022, when it was shipped to Carrozzeria Zanasi, the Modena shop Ferrari trusts with its Icona-series and Tailor Made projects. Invoices from that visit topped 110,000 euros and covered a full repaint in the original Nero Opaco along with fresh headlights, rear glass and the notoriously sticky interior switches. Ferrari Classiche certified the car the same year, and it sold through RM Sotheby's to its current owner, who shipped it to Canada. At the time of cataloging it showed just 5,763 kilometers, or roughly 3,580 miles, from new.Matte Paint in 2004 Was a Bigger Ask Than It SoundsA factory matte finish on a production Ferrari was practically unheard of two decades ago. The matte-wrap trend that makes flat paint a routine option today didn't take off until years later, which means Ferrari's paint shop was solving a problem most body shops still weren't equipped for. Gloss paint can be cut and buffed to fix swirls or light damage. Matte lacquer can't, since polishing it just brings back the shine the customer didn't want. Any real correction means re-clearing the panel, not detailing it. That's precisely why Zanasi's 2022 visit turned into a full repaint rather than a touch-up, and why the invoice ran past six figures for what most owners would assume was routine cosmetic upkeep.The Engineering Underneath Still Holds UpStrip away the paint story and this is still an Enzo, which means a 6.0-liter naturally aspirated Tipo F140 V12 good for 651 horsepower at 7,800 rpm and 485 lb-ft at 5,500 rpm, sending power through a six-speed automated-manual gearbox borrowed directly from Ferrari's Formula 1 paddle-shift logic. The carbon-fiber body, credited to Ken Okuyama under Pininfarina, leaned on Ferrari's F1 aerodynamics department for its underbody diffuser rather than a conventional rear wing. Ferrari quoted a 0-60 mph run of roughly 3.1 seconds and a top speed north of 215 mph, numbers that still embarrass plenty of modern performance cars. The Enzo was the fourth entry in Ferrari's halo lineage after the 288 GTO, F40 and F50, and it holds a specific distinction now: it was the last Ferrari flagship built without any form of hybrid assistance before the LaFerrari brought electric motors into the equation. For a sense of how deeply Ferrari's road cars have always borrowed from its F1 program, we recently looked at a genuine period turbo-era Formula 1 engine that quietly came up for sale.What a Number-Free Auction Might Still FetchRM Sotheby's has a fresh, verified data point to lean on even without publishing an estimate. In April, the house sold a different Enzo at its Monaco auction, one of just nine finished in Argento Nurburgring silver and the only one delivered new to the United Kingdom, for 6,530,000 euros. That car didn't carry a one-of-one color, a royal ownership chain or sub-6,000-kilometer mileage. This one has all three, plus Ferrari Classiche paperwork, which is likely exactly why RM Sotheby's chose not to anchor expectations with a number nobody could responsibly back up. Collector-grade Ferraris have generally kept climbing even in stretches where the broader collector car market has cooled off, a trend that showed up clearly across this year's Monterey Car Week results.The Import Paperwork Bidders Shouldn't SkipThe car currently sits in Canada under a temporary import bond, carrying a New Zealand registration, which is its own small lesson in how exotic cars migrate around the globe chasing favorable paperwork. The detail that matters most for American bidders is buried in RM Sotheby's addendum: because this Enzo is more than 21 years old but not yet 25, it doesn't qualify for the federal exemption that lets genuinely classic imports skip full compliance work. A U.S. buyer would need to pay for DOT and EPA federalization on top of applicable duties, tariffs, taxes and registration fees. It's the same kind of fine print that makes bidding on any heavily bespoke, hard-to-comp hypercar worth reading twice, whether it's a one-off Ferrari or a stacked-options Koenigsegg Regera currently heading to Mecum's first Nashville sale.A Sealed Bid, Not a BallroomRM Sotheby's Sealed format skips the auctioneer and the room entirely. Bidding opens online on September 23 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern and closes September 30 at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, with no live theater and no packed grandstand watching to see who blinks first. That suits a car like this one. There's no other factory Matte Nero Opaco Enzo to compare it against, no prior sale to anchor a guess, and no shortage of documentation to make the case for whoever's willing to write the number themselves. Whoever wins gets a piece of Ferrari's color chart that never made it past a single build sheet.