Car enthusiasts catch glimpse of $100m worth of supercars at Starship Auckland fundraiser

Thousands of car enthusiasts spent Sunday catching a glimpse of $100 million worth of supercars on show in Auckland.

The showcase wasn't just entertaining its youngest fans but helping some of them too.  

Starship Children's Hospital and Giltrap Group joined forces with Kiwi supercar owners to bring the Starship Supercars Show to the public.

The showcase sold out, with ticket sales from the thousands of visitors raising well over $200,000 for Starship.

From classics to coupes, racecars to gold-plated Ferraris, the display featured some of the most expensive supercars ever built, which some car fans didn't even know were in the country.

Among the crowd favourites were the McLaren Speedtail on its local debut and the very first supercar - the Lamborghini Miura - owned by the likes of Rod Stewart, Eddie Van Halen and Frank Sinatra.

Then there was James Bond's car from Goldfinger, the Aston Martin DB5, and what's dubbed the 'Holy Trinity of Hypercars' - the McLaren P1, Porsche 918 and the Ferrari LaFerrari.

"You get anxious when you realise there is $100 million worth of cars in the building and you've signed for them," Giltrap Group head of communications Shaun Summerfield says. 

"But when you see people taking photos and getting excited and then they realise there are three more floors of cars that's awesome."

Starship corporate relationships manager Melanie Esplin says the response to the day was "amazing".

"It's just an amazing response to an amazing day and it will do some amazing things for Starship, for our families and for our wee kids."