Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a really great car, which is pretty much the same thing.

But you have to hurry because soon the only people owning cars will be collectors and country folk. Cars will be gone off the streets. When we want to go somewhere we will just call one of the public transport pods, hop in and it will take us to wherever.

Over the past 30 years the Sports Car Market magazine database shows that 40 cars have sold for more than $12 million at auction. Twenty-six were Ferraris. In 2014 Bonhams sold a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO for a record $53m. One of 39 made, it was originally owned by Jo Schlesser.

Schlesser was a serious rally driver, Formula One driver and 250 GT racer who slid into a wall and died driving an air-cooled, magnesium-bodied Honda full of fuel in the 1968 French Grand Prix.