The Daily Vroom

Good morning Vroomers,

Before we get into yesterday’s sales, I need to vent about something that drives me nuts. When an auction ends without a sale, sometimes the real value is in the comments—maybe I missed the live bidding, maybe I want to see how things played out. But deleting all of that? Wiping out the bids and comments like the auction never happened? That just reeks of a lack of transparency.

What’s the logic here? The auction link still works, so if someone clicks on it, they’re met with… nothing? No bidding history, no discussion, just a black hole where an auction used to be. It makes no sense. This happened yesterday with the Lamborghini Murciélago that ended RNM at $461,500, and it’s not the first time I’ve seen it. Other platforms pull the same stunt.

Look, I get that platforms can run their show however they want. But let’s be real—everyone knows not all auctions end in a sale. There’s no shame in that. Just leave the bids and comments up, be transparent, and let the market see what happened. That’s how trust is built.

MARKET LEADERBOARD

💰 The figures shared below don’t count any other sales such as car seats, memorabilia etc… All online auction sites are analyzed to put this leaderboard together.

I only include websites that have sold 5+ vehicles in the chart below.

YESTERDAY’S TOP 5 SALES

Want to dive deeper into any of these listings? Just click on the car to take you directly to the listing.

Nearly Sale of the Day

This 1955 Austin-Healey 100S  was never going to sell at $340,000. Not with the last online sale of a 100S hitting $599,000 in 2022. The seller was right to hold firm—sometimes the best move is knowing when not to sell. Timing is everything, and if I were them, I’d wait for summer when buyers are more engaged, the market has settled a bit, and the right collectors might be more willing to step up.

One interesting wrinkle here—the traffic. Compared to the last 100S that sold online, this auction had less than half the views. That doesn’t automatically mean a car won’t sell, but for something this rare, with a limited pool of potential buyers, exposure matters. Even on BaT, you can’t assume the right eyes will find it.

So what’s next? Maybe a private deal gets done behind the scenes. But if not, this one deserves a fresh run in a few months, with a strong lead-up (and maybe some extra marketing/exposure) to get more collectors dialed in. Right car, wrong moment.

The Holy Trinity of Fast Wagons: AMG, Audi, and M Power Under One Roof

Some people see a wagon and think “family hauler.” I see a long-roof legend waiting to be wrung out on an empty backroad. There’s something special about these performance wagons—machines built for practicality but engineered with a level of performance that makes them feel like a secret handshake among car enthusiasts. And when you find one with the right ingredients—rare spec, the right upgrades, and a good history—it’s hard to ignore.

That’s exactly what we’ve got here with these three. An AMG-massaged Mercedes 280TE that’s as rare as they come, an Audi S6 Avant with a proper manual swap, and now, an E34 M5 Touring—the ultimate long-roof M-car, back when they were hand-built by BMW’s most skilled engineers. Three wagons, three different flavors, but all cut from the same cloth: fast, rare, and way more special than whatever the neighbors are driving.

This 1982 Mercedes-Benz 280TE AMG is a true pre-merger AMG unicorn—Euro-spec, factory-tuned, and certified by AMG. Forget the V8 swaps; AMG surgically reworked the M110 inline-six, bumping it to 210 hp with high-compression tweaks and sharper cams.

Then there’s the Version 3 AMG body kit—widebody fenders, a one-piece bumper, and blacked-out trim giving it a proper ’80s DTM stance. Blue Velour interior? Icing on the cake.

At $38K with a day left, this feels low. AMG wagons don’t come around often. The market needs to wake up before it’s too late.

If Audi had any sense back in 2002, this is the S6 Avant they would have built. A 340-hp V8, Quattro AWD, and a proper 6-speed manual swap—all wrapped in Amulet Red. It’s the kind of car that makes you wonder why everything today is turbocharged and overcomplicated.

And then there’s the RS6-style body bits, ST coilovers, and muffler delete—a few key tweaks that take this from fast wagon to full-on Autobahn bruiser.

Someone’s about to land a properly sorted, analog-era Audi, and I bet they won’t be letting it go anytime soon.

The E34 M5 Touring has always been the underdog. For years, it lagged behind the sedan in value—maybe because M5 buyers clung to the idea that a proper M-car had four doors, or maybe because wagons just weren’t seen as collector-grade. But times change, and the Touring’s moment has arrived. With only 891 ever built, it’s rarer than a CSL, rarer than an E28 M5, and unlike the sedans, it was all hand-assembled at BMW’s M factory.

This one? Daytona Violet, manual, and the right kind of upgrades—KW suspension, stainless exhaust, and those gorgeous Throwing Star wheels. The service history checks out, and the recent work shows the seller hasn’t cut corners.