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2016 Ford Focus RS Sells for $550,000 at US Auction, Proceeds Go to Charity

This weekend’s Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale brought the sale of many cars that attained high values. Among them is a brand new MY 2016 Ford Focus RS, that sold for more than ten times its sticker price.
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A blue MY 2016 Ford Focus RS with lot number 3009 sold for $550,000 at the Barrett-Jackson auction, including 10% buyer commission. All the proceeds will go to the JDRF charitable organization, the only global diabetes foundation that has a strategic plan to end type 1 diabetes.

There is no mention of the example sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale event being a car with the first VIN of the series, so we can safely assume the generous buyer simply didn’t want to stay in line for Ford’s latest performance hatchback, offered for the first time in the United States of America.

The event held last weekend was the 45th charitable auction organized by Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale. The auction company raised over $84.6 million for charity in the last 45 years, without counting the vehicles sold this weekend. Among them was a 2017 Acura NSX with VIN #001, a Chevrolet COPO Camaro with VIN #001, the 2016 Ford Focus RS, and others. In total, 11 vehicles were sold, and the proceedings went to charity.

The tradition of charitable auctions started in 1971 for Barrett-Jackson, when the two business partners running the company decided to hold an auction to benefit the local library.

Their good intentions were passed over the years, and carmakers quickly chose to collaborate for humanitarian reasons.

Ford and General Motors were the first OEMs to get involved in the charitable auctions organized in Scottsdale, where they sold vehicles before they were first available to the public.

Last year, the 2015 Ford Shelby GT350R with the VIN #001 was sold for $1 million to benefit JDRF, the same foundation supported this year through the sale of the 2016 Focus RS. Naturally, cars with the VIN #001 tend to attain higher values than regular production vehicles.
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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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