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collector cars are works of art and outperformed wine, watches and art-indexes – the global race to renounce combustion engines will only serve to heighten interests in these relics of a vanishing era…

What 300SL Gullwing Sales Tell Us About The Market

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL W198 debuted in New York some 70 years ago this week. It was at the forefront of the car world then,...

The Actual Hagerty Price Guide Indexes

The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes—first published in 2009—are seven stock market-style indexes that average the condition #2 (“excellent”) values of representative vehicles, or “component”...
The 10 Most Expensive Cars At The Monterey Auctions

The 10 Most Expensive Cars At The Monterey Auctions

This year’s Monterey Car Week auctions saw mixed results, with some disappointing numbers and unmet reserves contrasted with fervent bidding wars and record prices....

The 2024 Collector Car Market Feels Similar To 2015

The collector car market, the stock market, and the economy rarely move in lockstep. Recently, the Dow has been in record territory, while the...

Buying Guide: Lotus Esprit

Car enthusiasts who came of age in the ’80s or ’90s regard Lotus as a bonafide manufacturer of exotic cars, the names of which...

Buying Guide: VW Camper 1950 – 1967

As a child of the late ’90s, I associate the VW Bus with the first Cars movie. Specifically, with Fillmore, the pastel green VW...

$42.9M Shelby Cobra Daytona – Most Expensive American Car Sold At Auction

Monterey Car Week just closed and the auction results are staggering. While the auction companies are still tallying post-block sales, as of this writing,...

This Ferrari Could Be 2023’s Most Expensive Car?!

The 2023 Monterey Car Week is less than a month away. The auction schedule is set, the catalogs are almost full, and plenty of...

Cobras And Their Kin – 4 Alternatives

The Shelby Cobra story has been told a million and one times, but that’s because it’s a damn good one. Built for a few...

The Most Important Motorcycle Sales Of 2025

As another year draws to a close, the season of retrospectives begins. This applies not only to the car market but also to the...

Five Questions To Bruce Canepa

Episode #6 Bruce Canepa: Our new buyer’s guide series of short interviews with the most influential collectors and dealerships is giving you some insight’s  into...

2017–25 Porsche 718: The Entry-Level Sports Car

It’s a tough time to be a financially challenged Porsche fan, and I’m afraid I’m speaking from experience. Sometimes it seems as if there...