That $12 Million McLaren in Sotheby’s Window Heads to Auction

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By Katya Kazakina

June 4, 2015 at 4:00 AM UTC

The multi-million-dollar orange eye candy in the window at Sotheby’s in New York is as shiny as a Jeff Koons sculpture.

A 1998 McLaren F1 sports car attracted gawkers -- men in Italian suits, leather jackets and doctors’ robes from a nearby hospital -- from the moment it appeared in the company’s Upper East Side headquarters on June 3.