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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…

2026 Monterey Auctions With $758M Record Sales

2026 Monterey Auctions With $758M Record Sales

The numbers are in, and the 2026 Monterey auctions made history. Total sales reached a record of $758.3M, surpassing even the pandemic-fueled frenzy of...
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Buying Guide: 1963-71 Mercedes-Benz SL

Mercedes-Benz has had an on-off relationship with its two-tiered sports car lineup. More recently there has been the SL/SLK, but the original was the...

Buyers Guide: 1962-80 Triumph Spitfire

The economics facing the postwar car industry in the U.K. were complex and challenging. The country was nearly bankrupt, and it had to sell...
Predictions For The 2025 Collector Car Market

Predictions For The 2025 Collector Car Market

Although we inform our yearly market predictions with a trove of data, our 2024 predictions turned out to be mostly wrong, which was partly...

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...
Second Highest Ever Auction Sales In Monterey

Second Highest Ever Auction Sales In Monterey

Ferrari, Ferrari, Ferrari! Trends come and go but Ferrari remains timeless, again landing top spot amid the Monterey auctions. With eight of the top...

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...

How Is The Collector Car Market Performing?

For much of the collector car market, after a slow end to 2025, 2026 started out with a bang. Huge market activity in January...

Understanding the Car Market When Other Investments Crash

Rarely has it seemed so vital to understand how markets cycle. As 2022 draws to a close, the stock market has become Pontiac Aztec...

March Auctions: A Stable Market Is Back

One of the most diverse collector car auction weeks in history has wrapped, with $183.8M trading hands across 468 vehicles offered spanning 121 years...
Pebble Beach Auctions: Celebrating History

Pebble Beach Auctions: Celebrating History

Monterey Week with the Pebble Beach auctions, a true barometer of the market, began this year with premises that should not be overlooked: a...

Predictions For The 2024 Collector Market

With a scant few days left in 2023, we’ve polished up our crystal ball and begun to look ahead to what might happen in...