Auction
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Two General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] vehicles with serious potential for future gains in value will go under the hammer this weekend at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Palm Beach, Florida. But collectability is just one of the factors set to drive up bids; another is the fact that full proceeds from the sale of both vehicles will be donated to charity. ALSO SEE: Cadillac To Get New, Unique V-8 Despite Talk Of The V-8’s Death One of the vehicles is the first retail example of the all-new 2016 Cadillac CT6. The CT6 is the American luxury brand’s new range-topper, and the first of its...
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1965 Chevy Corvette Cutaway Expected To Bring Up To $1.4 Million At Auction
This cutaway display stand features a 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray fuel injection car built from a prototype with 4 miles on the clock in 1964. It’s going up for auction and is expected to bring somewhere between $1,000,000 and $1,400,000. Built for the 1965 Motorama show, it went...
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Original Herbie Heads To Auction With Barrett-Jackson
One of the original Herbie star cars is heading to auction, so if you're a fan of precocious movie Beetles now is the time to act. The car is set to cross the auction block at the upcoming Barrett-Jackson event in Palm Beach, Florida. It's a 1963 Volkswagen wearing a particularly familiar livery...
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Unfortunately, This Particular Mid-Engine Corvette Is More Than A Rumor
Last week, Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter attempted to slam the door on whispers Chevrolet is working on a mid-engine version of the Corvette. Of course, it's going take more than reasoned argument and denial from anyone—even automotive royalty like Juechter—to extinguish one...
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Another Massive Classic Car Collection Going Up For Auction
More than 230 cars from the Rogers' Classic Car Museum in Las Vegas will be auctioned off.
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First Wrecked 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Going Up For Auction
This sorry sight is the first wrecked 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat that we know of. Yes, it's the same lime green example that ran off a road in Colorado back in December just an hour after driving off the dealer lot. Now it's headed for auction so all those mad modders out there, or perhaps...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Father and son Paul and Chris Andrews have amassed a wonderfully diverse collection of automobiles. The vehicles range from vintage Duesenbergs to old pickup trucks on over to 1980s dream sports cars. All together, the Andrews have over 100 vehicles in their possession and they're all in amazing shape. The time has come, however, for the collection to be culled. MUST WATCH: Mercedes-Benz May Have The Best Ad Of Super Bowl XLIX: Video RM Auctions has teamed up with the family to handle the sale of 75 vehicles from the Andrews collection. These vehicles are being offered up with no reserve, yet...
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First 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R Fetches $1 Million In Record Barrett-Jackson Auction
Barrett-Jackson’s collector car auction held in Scottsdale, Arizona over the weekend saw a number of exciting cars go under the hammer and some major records fall. One of the more exciting cars to be sold was the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R with VIN #001, whose final bid came in at a cool...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Sleigh Good Enough For Santa Goes Up For Auction
Bonhams will sell a European industrialist's collection of horse-drawn vehicles.
Stephen Edelstein -
First 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Heading To Auction
Everyone we know is pretty darn eager to get their mitts on the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350. From its aggressive body lines to its flat-plane crank 5.2-liter V-8 engine, the GT350 is going to be one of the (thankfully, many) ultra sporty machines available at your local dealership. Want to be...
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Humvee Auction Hammers Home Strong Prices
The U.S. Military recently held its first-ever public auction of its surplus Humvee supply, and the results were good. Each Humvee had a starting price of $10,000, but the average transaction price was around $30,000. The lowest someone paid to take home one of the brutes was $21,500, while a...
Jeff Glucker -
Audi Sport Quattro Expected To Bring Nearly $500,000 At Auction
There have been many memorable and legendary Audi vehicles produced over the years. The R15 and R18 race cars are nearly unrivaled in their endurance racing dominance; the forbidden fruit (for us in the States) that is the RS 6 Avant twin-turbo V-8 wagon. CHECK OUT: 2016 Cadillac CTS-V To Debut In...
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Militaristic off-roaders are hitting the auction block at a variety of price points
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Eleanor Ford Mustang Fails To Sell At Auction
The only drivable ‘Eleanor’ Ford Mustang to have survived the filming ordeal of 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds went up for auction over the weekend at Mecum’s first-ever collector car auction in Austin, Texas, but unfortunately for its owner the car failed to sell. That...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Original Eleanor Mustang From ‘Gone In 60 Seconds’ Coming Up For Auction
Of the 11 ‘Eleanor’ Ford Mustangs created for 2000’s hit movie Gone In 60 Seconds, which starred Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie, only three of the cars were actually drivable and two of these were destroyed in the climactic bridge jump and junkyard crusher scenes. Now the...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
100-Car French Barn Find Includes Rare Ferraris, Bugatti: Video
Imagine the excitement and joy of finding a rare classic sitting abandoned in someone’s back yard or shed, just begging for a little restoration work and a stretch of open road. Now multiply that by a hundred and you’ll have an inkling of how it must have felt when the classic car...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
Ex-Brunei Royal Family Jaguar XJ220 Up For Auction
Imagine it: a pristine 1994 Jaguar XJ220 that has been immaculately maintained, and shows just under 6,000 miles on the odometer. Now imagine that same car, but with provenance that includes ownership by the royal family of Brunei. That’s this car, and it’s up for auction next week at...
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Watch Dodge Build The 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat With VIN0001: Video
If you were hoping to get your hands on the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with VIN0001, you’re too late as the car has already been sold. It went up for auction last month at a Barrett-Jackson event in Las Vegas and was eventually sold for a staggering $825,000, with all the proceeds...
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Collectible supercar prices have spiraled into the stratosphere in the last few years. That's no secret. And that's why we find RM Sotheby's auction estimate for this 1993 Bugatti EB110 curious. Of course, with a range of $575,000 to $775,000, we're not talking chump change. But it still seems shockingly reasonable for such an influential, one-owner machine. MUST SEE: This Mysterious Truck Has Ferrari's Five Flagship Supercars Tucked Away: Video By any measure, the Bugatti's performance is spectacular. Its quad-turbo V-12 produces 550 horsepower—respectable now, bonkers for...
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Ferrari Launches F60 America In Beverly Hills, Auctions First 458 Speciale A For Charity
Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] marked 60 years of sales in the U.S. on Saturday night with a star-studded event at Beverly Hills City Hall. The famous building was bathed in red and featured a giant Prancing Horse logo on its facade, and out front was parked the first of 10 F60 America supercars that Ferrari...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
RM Set To Offer 2002 Lincoln Continental Concept Car
Remember when Lincoln used to make some seriously cool cars? Even Lincoln remembers, or at least they did, because back in 2002 the automaker created a new concept vehicle that provided a possible glimpse at where the automaker was heading. The car was a retro-futuristic look at a new Continental...
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First Production 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Sells For $825,000
If you were hoping to get your hands on the very first 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, you’re out of luck as the car has just been sold. It was put up for auction by Dodge, which plans to donate all proceeds from the sale to the charity organization Opportunity Village, which helps those...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
World’s Only Privately Owned Ferrari Enzo Prototype For Sale
This, friends, is the only Ferrari Enzo prototype ever sold into the hands of a private buyer, and it’s for sale. You can own this piece of history. If you already own a whole lot of cash, that is. ALSO SEE: First Lamborghini Huracán Crash Results In Nothing But Ashes The price...
Nelson Ireson -
Gold-Plated Aston Martin DB5 Model Set For Charity Auction
The price of Aston Martin DB5s has long left the reach of mere mortals, but if you don't mind not being able to drive it this DB5 up for auction soon could be a worthy alternative. The third-scale replica of James Bond's iconic DB5 is up for auction with Christie's and as its color suggests, honors...
Antony Ingram