250F

The front-engined title car

The 250F is valued chassis by chassis: works cars and Cameron Millar continuations occupy separate markets. Fangio's four-win 1957 season is central; mechanical identity and a period race file decide each car.

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Market value · road

$4M–$8M

Typical $6M · 3 sales

$18K$8.5M
Open Market & Price

Market value · road

$4M–$8M

Typical $6M · 3 sales

$18K$8.5M
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Market history · in the terminal
Open Market & Price
Engine
2'493 cc (twin-cam inline six)
Power
220 to 270 hp (period development range)
Transmission
4- or 5-speed (manual transaxle)
Rear suspension
De Dion (transverse leaf spring)
Brakes
Hydraulic drums (core specification)

Market & Price

The price and the proof

A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.

Records: 1956 250F offset car · chassis 2525 — $4,620,000 · Gooding & Company Pebble Beach · 16 August 2014; 7 documented road sales on file · 2010–2021. estimate band $4M–$8M · good road cars.

HCN:250FLive model
$5'656'854204.2% · 12M
$20K$50K$100K$200K$500K$1M$2M$5M$10M20182020202220242026CovidRate shockS&P 500
Model curve · anchored to 7 documented salesnot investment advice
The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks7 documented anchors · last sale 57 mo ago

Compound annual growth

WindowThis car*S&P 500Gold
1Y+204.2%+18.8%+21.9%
5Y+197.3%+11.4%+17.6%
10Y+32.5%+13.3%+11.8%

*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends

Deepest drawdown · model window

This car*-99.6%Aug 2014 → Dec 2018 · recovered May 2026
S&P 500-20.3%Dec 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023
Gold-39.3%Sep 2011 → Dec 2015 · recovered Jul 2020

Forecast ladder · model quantiles

HorizonP10P50P90
+6M$4.9M$5.9M$7.1M
+12M$4.7M$6.1M$8.0M
+24M$4.6M$6.6M$9.7M

Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice

Transaction ledger · documented sales

7 of 7 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record

Chassis 2525 set a $4.62M model auction record in 2014. No comparable recent public sale was found that would establish today's level for another period 250F.

Price range · road · openConfidence · lowThe ledger has one directly documented original-car result: chassis 2525 at $4.62M in 2014. Public transactions are too rare, and chassis histories too individual, to infer a tight current band; the range allows for accepted period identity, racing provenance and restoration quality but is not a computed market average.

Floor

$4M

Typical

$6M

Ceiling

$8M

Estimate band for good road cars. 3 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.

$17K$4M$6M$8M$8.6M
Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it.

Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. Original period cars only. Cameron Millar constructions and other recreations form a separate market even when they contain original Maserati components.

Road record

$4,620,000

1956 250F offset car · chassis 2525

Gooding & Company Pebble Beach · 16 August 2014

The wider market · Maserati at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors442 lots · 2003–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line
20032026Explore all 40,882 results

Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.

The 2014 Gooding result includes buyer's premium as published. The broader band is an editorial range anchored to that sale, not a statistically derived valuation.

Overview

Maserati's customer Grand Prix car became its 1957 title winner

The 250F was ready by the end of 1953 for Formula 1's new 2.5-litre rules. Juan Manuel Fangio won its first race in Argentina in January 1954 and won again in Belgium before moving to Mercedes; points from both teams counted toward his 1954 title.

Maserati kept developing the car: five-speed gearboxes, revised brakes, lighter frames, offset drivetrains and an experimental V12 all appeared. Stirling Moss won Monaco and Italy in 1956. Fangio returned for 1957 and won Argentina, Monaco, France and Germany on the way to his fifth championship.

Period production is commonly given as about 26 cars, but chassis numbers were reused, frames were replaced and later Cameron Millar cars incorporated original parts and factory jigs. For valuation, the accepted identity and unbroken history of the particular chassis matter more than the headline count.

Period cars
~26 · records disputed
Debut
1954 Argentine GP · win
1957
Fangio · four wins · title
Layout
Front engine · rear drive
Formula
2.5-litre Formula 1

Reference

Technical specifications

Engine and transmission

Engine
2'493 cc inline sixtwin overhead camshafts, dry sump and twin-plug ignition
Induction
Three twin-choke Weber carburettorsfuel injection was tested during development
Early output
approximately 220 to 240 hpperiod specifications vary by chassis and season
Offset-car output
270 hp at 7'200 rpmGooding's published specification for chassis 2525
Gearbox
4-speed, later 5-speed manual transaxle

Chassis and running gear

Frame
Tubular steel space framedeveloped repeatedly through the works programme
Front suspension
Unequal-length double wishbonescoil springs and dampers
Rear suspension
De Dion axletransverse leaf spring
Brakes
Four hydraulic drumsDunlop discs were among later experiments
Body
Single-seat aluminium Grand Prix body

The records

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World Championship Grand Prix wins

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Fangio wins in 1957

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record laps in Fangio's Nürburgring recovery

HICON BID

Buying interest, silently.

A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Maserati 250F file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.

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The hands

The people behind the car

The people whose work shaped the Maserati 250F.

No free period portrait on record

Gioacchino Colombo

Initial project engineer

Set the concept for the A6GCM-derived 2.5-litre Grand Prix car before leaving Maserati ahead of its race debut.

No free period portrait on record

Vittorio Bellentani

Development engineer

Developed the inline-six and early 250F package with the Modena engineering group.

No free period portrait on record

Giulio Alfieri

Chief development engineer

Took charge of continued chassis and mechanical development after Bellentani's departure.