ONE of the rarest and most desirable Porsche 911s to ever pass through an auction house was sold over the weekend for a monumental $3.02 million (€2.02 million).

The 1993 Porsche 911 (964) Carrera RSR 3.8 is one of 51 ever built, and one of only two to be sold new with a fully trimmed interior, as opposed to the typically stripped down RSRs that were built to race.

The Polar Silver Porsche attracted huge attention prior to its sale at RM Sotheby’s Villa Erba auction on Saturday, where it went under the hammer alongside a number of other high profile lots.

Notable Ferraris at the event included a 1990 Ferrari F40 which sold for $1.60 million, only a little more than half the price of the 911 RSR.

Two vintage cars from the 1930s were the most expensive to sell. A 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Atalante Prototype fetched $4.53 million and a 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS cleared at $5.04 million.