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MARKET LEADERBOARD

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

The Leaderboard only include websites that have sold 5+ vehicles 

YESTERDAY’S TOP 3 SALES

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

It’s always interesting to dive in to see who’s buying these cars. The Senna buyer has bought 33 vehicles from 2021 onwards, a real eclectic mix.

Crazy Purple Ferrari

This 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena Koenig Specials Twin Turbo is currently live on BaT. It is one of the most unhinged things I have seen on a car auction platform in a long time, and I mean that as a compliment.

Koenig Specials was a Munich-based tuner that looked at Ferraris in the 1980s and 1990s and thought the factory had not gone far enough. They were right. This 360 got twin KKK turbochargers, upgraded pistons, a carbon roof intake, a fire suppression system, and a revised exhaust. Then somebody took it to Italy in 2006 where it currently resides, added an N-GT body kit and a rear wing, and had it resprayed in Viola Hong Kong purple with gold accents and matching purple Alcantara everywhere in 2024.

The BaT comment section is predictably excellent. Prince references. Barney the Dinosaur. Liberace. One person said it would be the hit of the elementary school drop-off line. Another said it is mandatory to wear a white Adidas tracksuit or the ignition will not work.

Here is the thing though. Underneath the theatre is a 25-year exempt Ferrari with a Koenig twin-turbo setup that reportedly makes around 600hp, Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes, a 360 Challenge clutch, and 48,000 km. The modifications are documented with a Koenig Specials plaque and build records.

We ran it through our import calculator at EUR 90,000, a reasonable estimate of where it might land. Italy to United States. Total landed cost came back at just over $113k. Import fees of just 7%, mainly because the 25-year exemption removes Section 232 tariffs entirely. You are paying just over $8k on top of the car to get it to your door.

One important caveat. This is a heavily modified vehicle. We have now added a modified vehicle checkbox to the calculator for exactly this reason. Customs brokers have more latitude to challenge the declared value on modified exotics, and CBP can reclassify the vehicle in a way that changes the duty picture entirely. The numbers look clean on paper. Get a broker who has imported modified exotics before, not just someone who handles standard cars.

At around $113,000 all-in (if final bid is 90k euro) you are getting a one-of-one twin-turbo 360 with full Koenig documentation and a story that writes itself. The colour is either the best or worst thing you have ever seen depending on who you are. Either way it is absolutely one the most interesting cars on all the auctions platform this week.

Talking of the import calculator, it just got better.

After thousands of calculations and some great feedback from readers, here is what changed.

Lighter background. You asked, we listened. Cream now. Much easier to read.

A lot more cars. We have added tons of new models across makes. G-Wagen W463 models are in across all years. RUF is in. Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Toyota, Nissan and a dozen others have been significantly expanded. If your car was missing before, try again.

Modified vehicle flag. New checkbox at the bottom of the form. Tick it if the car has been tuned, converted, or substantially changed from factory spec. The calculator will flag the additional customs risk in the TDV Take.

Dubai currency fix. If a UAE car is listed in USD, it now calculates in USD. Simple, but it wasn't working before.

A note on EU tariffs. Trump announced last week that tariffs on European cars are increasing to 25%, up from the current 15%. This has not been confirmed in the Federal Register and the legal situation is contested. We are monitoring it closely and will update the calculator the moment it is official. If you are running numbers on a European import right now, treat the current figure as a floor, not a ceiling.

Clicking ‘New Calculation’ scrolls back to the top. It didn't. Now it does.

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Auctions To Keep An Eye On

Up for grabs here is a straightforward, honest Saab, the kind of older, usable car that sits firmly in the lower end of the auction market and usually flies under the radar unless something about it pulls you in.

I see this all the time with cars in this price range, and it’s something most sellers still don’t get. Because it’s not a big number, the effort drops off. Photos are rushed, the description is thin, comments are quiet, and then the result comes in softer than expected. It happens again and again.

The reality is it’s usually the opposite. These cars need more care, not less, because buyers are coming in expecting something to be off. If you actually put a bit of elbow grease into the listing, clean photos, a clear story, and some proper engagement, it makes a much bigger difference than people think.

That’s exactly what’s going on here with this No Reserve listing.

This Saab isn’t being overplayed or dressed up as something it isn’t, but you can tell the seller has taken the time to present it properly. The photos are composed, the write-up gives you what you need, and it feels like a listing you can actually trust rather than scroll past in a second. That alone already puts it ahead of most cars it’s competing with.

That’s really the takeaway. Not anything to do with the badge or where it ends up, just a reminder that presentation still moves the needle in a big way at this level of the market. Sellers don’t need to do anything revolutionary, they just need to care a bit more, and when they do, it shows immediately.

This is a different conversation entirely. It’s a documented, numbers-matching 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, finished in the classic Cameo White over blue with the Ram Air III 400 and a four-speed, and more importantly, it’s one of just 505 built with that exact drivetrain combination . That alone puts it in a category where buyers already know what they’re looking at before they even open the gallery.

And that’s really where this gets interesting. Because unlike the lower end cars we talk about where presentation has to do the heavy lifting, here the car is doing most of the work. When you’re dealing with a first-year Trans Am, documented properly, original engine, correct setup, all the right boxes ticked, the market tends to snap into focus pretty quickly. You don’t need to convince anyone this is desirable, you just need to not get in the way of it.

This one seems to understand that balance. The listing leans into the strengths without trying to oversell it. You’ve got the documentation, the matching drivetrain, the right options, and the kind of provenance buyers in this space care about. The seller even notes the possibility of a repaint, which is exactly the kind of detail that builds credibility rather than detracts from it, because at this level, buyers aren’t expecting perfection, they’re expecting honesty.

What stands out here is how complete the package feels. It’s not just the car, it’s everything around it. Paperwork, history, equipment, all aligning in a way that gives confidence before the bidding even really gets going. That’s usually what separates the strong results from the average ones in this tier of the market.

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