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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…

The Most Beautiful Dodges Of The Muscle Car Era Are Still Attainable

If you’ve ever paid any attention to the auction broadcasts that show numbers-matching, perfectly restored muscle cars crossing the well-lit block before an ogling...

Hagerty’s Collector Car Indexes Show An Nuanced Market

The Hagerty Price Guide Indexes are seven stock market-style indexes that average the values of notable segment movers, or “component” cars. They help provide...

Ferrari & Rolex: The Risks Of Gatekeeping

Ferrari and Rolex carry just about as much cachet as any brand can, and given their histories, it’s easy to understand why. But the...

1965 Spirit Of America Sonic At RM Sotheby’s Miami

The automotive land speed record has existed nearly as long as the automobile itself, beginning with a breakneck 39.24-mph run laid down in France...

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...
The Cheapest V-12 Classics

The Cheapest V-12 Classics

One of the interesting things about the piston-driven, internal-combustion engine is the sheer variety of its packaging. There’s the number of cylinders, of course,...

Shabby Chic Gullwing Sets A New Record In Paris

As automotive months go, it’s hard to beat August on the Monterey Peninsula. The cozy proximity of so much old-car excess is sensory overload,...

The Best BMW M5

Germany is no stranger to a fast saloon, BMW, Mercedes and Audi have been building them for years. But it’s arguably BMW that does...

20 Years Of Bugatti Veyron: How Is The Market For This Hypercar?

In art history, there have been many significant career retrospectives. Few landed quite like Pablo Picasso’s 1932 exhibition at Galeries Georges Petit. By then,...
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...

What Industry Pros Say About The Collector Car Market

Although mountains of data support the work at Hagerty Insider and in the Hagerty Price Guide, it's also recognized that the collector car market...
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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...