Maradona's Ksh26.4million Porsche Up For Sale
Maradona drove a 1992 silver Porsche 911 to and from training and matches when he was playing for Spanish club Sevilla in the 1992-93 season, his last in Europe, after serving a 15-month ban over a failed drug test.
Marvin Chege 
A Porsche sports car owned by football legend Diego Maradona during his 'forgotten' final season in Europe will go up for sale this week.
Maradona drove a 1992 silver Porsche 911 to and from training and matches when he was playing for Spanish club Sevilla in the 1992-93 season, his last in Europe, after serving a 15-month ban over a failed drug test.
“It was delivered new to ‘El Diego’, Diego Armando Maradona, and because of this provenance, this car probably could be worth double or three times the value of a standard car,” Gregory Tuytens, car specialist at auction house Bonhams, told Reuters at a storage facility in Belgium.
The car will be auctioned online and will last until Wednesday, March 10. The price is estimated to be 200,000 euros (Ksh26.4million), but according to Tuytens, Bonhams feels it could go for a lot more.
“It will definitely appeal not only to car collectors but also football fans and just people who loved the person, the football god Maradona in general,” he added.
Also dubbed the Porsche 964, the 1992 Porsche 911 featured significant styling revisions over previous 911 models, most prominently the more integrated bumpers. It was the first car to be offered with Porsche's Tiptronic automatic transmission and all-wheel drive as options.
It has a top speed of 261 km/h and 256 km/h on Tiptronic transmission and can go from 0-100 km/h in 5.5 seconds on manual transmission and in 6.2 seconds on Tiptronic.
Maradona was as much in the headlines off the pitch as on during that season, including when he was stopped by traffic police for jumping a red light and speeding at 180 km per hour in the city centre.
The car was last in the hands of another owner on the Spanish island of Majorca for a period of 20 years before it passed through the hands of several French collectors. It comes to auction with about 120,000 km of mileage.
Maradona died in November 2020 and was honored with a period of lying in state when thousands of people turned out to pay their last respects.
