Every so often an auction lot arrives that tests not just what one car is worth, but whether an entire category of car has found a settled price. On September 26, 2026, RM Sotheby’s will offer a 2024 Mercedes-AMG ONE at its Zurich sale carrying a Formula 1-derived hybrid powertrain, single ownership from new, and just 507 kilometers on the odometer. The pre-sale estimate is CHF 2,300,000 to CHF 2,500,000, roughly $2.6 million to $2.85 million. That range, set against a short but growing string of public sales, makes this lot worth a closer look.
The Lot at a Glance
- Chassis: WMXHJ6DB6PD000112
- Auction: RM Sotheby’s, The Zurich Auction, Lot 116, September 26, 2026
- Estimate: CHF 2,300,000-2,500,000 (approximately $2.6 million-$2.85 million)
- Odometer: 507 kilometers from new
- Ownership: single private owner, delivered new to Switzerland in August 2024
- Exterior: Black with a large-format Silver Three-Pointed Star livery and Petronas Green accents
- Engine: 1.6-liter turbocharged hybrid V6 derived from Mercedes-AMG’s 2016 championship-winning Formula 1 power unit
- Output: 1,063 combined horsepower from five motors; 0-100 km/h in 2.9 seconds; 352 km/h top speed
Why the Mercedes-AMG ONE Exists
Mercedes-AMG built the ONE to put its Formula 1 power unit on the road. The 1.6-liter turbocharged hybrid V6 traces its lineage to the 2016 W07 car that carried Nico Rosberg to the drivers’ title, part of a run in which Mercedes’ turbo-hybrid engines helped the team win 111 of 160 races between 2014 and 2021. Adapting a power unit designed to run at constant high load, with a crew on hand for every start, into something that idles at a red light and passes emissions testing took the better part of a decade. The ONE was unveiled in 2017; the first customer cars were not delivered until 2022, a delay that is now as much a part of the car’s story as its performance figures.
Just 275 examples were built, each combining the internal combustion engine with four electric motors for a combined 1,063 horsepower, sent through an Xtrac seven-speed transmission and all-wheel drive. Active aerodynamics, including an F1-style drag reduction system, help the ONE hold the production-car lap record at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, a mark Mercedes-AMG has defended more than once as rivals have chased it.
This Example: What the Catalog Confirms
Per RM Sotheby’s cataloging, chassis WMXHJ6DB6PD000112 was delivered new to a single private owner in Switzerland and registered on the road there. The odometer read 507 kilometers at the time the car was cataloged for sale, and the listing describes the car as sparingly driven throughout its ownership. It is finished in black with a large-format Silver Three-Pointed Star livery, drawn from Mercedes-AMG’s Motorsport Styling options, over an interior trimmed in Exclusive Nappa leather with Petronas Green accents on the seatbelts. The sale includes a documented accessories case with adjustment tools, owner’s manuals, a Certificate of Conformity, and even a special-edition Xbox controller and AMG-branded earphones that Mercedes bundles with every ONE. Because the car is registered in Switzerland, the sale is subject to Swiss VAT rules that RM Sotheby’s flags separately in the listing, a detail that matters for any bidder calculating an all-in price.
What the listing does not include is as notable as what it does. Unlike some other AMG ONE sales this year, RM Sotheby’s catalog for this Zurich car does not publish independent service invoices or a paint-thickness report, so prospective bidders are relying on the consignor’s mileage claim and RM’s own inspection rather than a documented service history. That is common practice for cars this new and this low-mileage, but it is worth flagging as an unverified gap rather than assuming it away.
Comparable Sales
Public auction results for the Mercedes-AMG ONE are still scarce, which is exactly why this sale matters. Here is what the record shows so far.
- RM Sotheby’s Monaco, April 25, 2026, Lot 168: a 2024 ONE with 89 kilometers, delivered new to Germany and offered from single ownership, sold for €2,817,500 (roughly $3.05 million at the time)
- RM Sotheby’s spring 2026 private-sale listing: a ONE finished in Reingrun with just 185 kilometers (about 115 miles), offered with an anticipated result above $3 million; it drew wide press coverage less for its price than for a reported $44,100 routine service bill
- Classic.com market tracking: a current market benchmark near $3.3 million for the model, built from a thin sample of confirmed 12-month sales, with two examples listed for sale at the time of writing
- Early dealer listings in 2024, shortly after deliveries began, asked far more: cars were shown in Dubai, Germany, and Monaco priced from roughly $6 million to $7.5 million equivalent, well above the model’s approximately $2.72 million original window-sticker price
Modern Car Collector previously reported on that early secondary-market frenzy, when dealer asking prices spiked well above sticker within months of the first deliveries. The gap between those early asks and this year’s auction results is itself informative: it suggests the market has moved from speculative allocation-flipping toward something closer to a normal, if still thin, resale market for a 275-unit hypercar.
Market Interpretation: What Could Move the Number
Everything above this point is drawn from RM Sotheby’s cataloging, public auction results, and third-party market trackers. What follows is our own read of the market, not a verified fact, and it should be weighed as opinion.
Why the Estimate Looks Conservative
CHF 2.3 to 2.5 million converts to roughly $2.6 to $2.85 million, which sits below both the Monaco result and the Classic.com benchmark. RM Sotheby’s estimates are typically set to encourage bidding rather than to predict a final number, so a lowball opening range on a car with this little mileage and this much documentation would not be surprising. If bidding tracks the Monaco result, a hammer price in the $2.9 to $3.3 million range, before fees, looks plausible to us.
What Could Cap the Price
The ONE has generated negative headlines alongside the record laps. Modern Car Collector has covered a ONE that was destroyed in a fire and a separate recall tied to fire risk in the rear spoiler’s hydraulics. Neither incident is connected to this specific chassis, and we have seen no indication either affects this car, but recall history on any limited-production hypercar can weigh on buyer confidence industry-wide, and it is a reasonable factor for bidders to price in. Two hundred seventy-five cars is also a wide enough production run that, unlike a one-off or a five-car special series, scarcity alone will not indefinitely support a premium once the initial allocation frenzy fades, which the gap between 2024’s speculative dealer asks and 2026’s auction results already suggests is happening.
What Could Push It Higher
Working against those headwinds is genuine cultural cachet. The car’s F1 connection is not just marketing copy: Mercedes-AMG has repeatedly defended the Nurburgring production-car record with it, and the ONE has been spotted being driven by figures inside Formula 1 itself, including Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. That kind of visibility keeps the model in front of the exact buyer pool likely to bid at a European auction house. This particular car’s specification also stands out. The large-format Star livery and Petronas Green combination is a more assertive look than the subtler schemes on many other examples, and single ownership with a fully documented accessory set removes several of the usual condition questions that can suppress bidding on a car this complex.
The Bottom Line
This Zurich sale is a small but useful data point in a market that is still working out what a modern, F1-engined hybrid hypercar is worth once the initial hype cools. Verified facts here are limited but strong: single ownership, 507 kilometers, full documentation, and a conservative estimate. Everything else, including our expectation that the final price lands above the estimate and closer to recent comparable sales, is informed judgment rather than certainty. Bidders, and readers watching from the sidelines, should treat it that way.
Elizabeth Puckett 
Eve Nowell