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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 1967 Ferrari 330 GTC one had all the right ingredients. A genuinely excellent car, presented with care and intent. Celeste Blue over tan works here, and the overall presentation felt deliberate, not rushed. The Massini report, long-term stewardship, concours history, and the recent 2025 Colombo V12 overhaul all told a consistent story. This wasn’t a “let’s see what happens” listing. It was a seller putting their best foot forward.

The bidding reflected that. Twenty-eight bids, real momentum, and a serious high bidder. Not a tire kicker. The top bidder has already bought meaningful cars on the platform, including a $2M 300SL Gullwing, a 2024 911 GT3 RS Weissach, and a 2021 SF90 Stradale. That’s pedigree. That’s someone who knows how to close.

At $670K, the number was strong in today’s market. Especially once you factor in the usual vintage Ferrari realities that always come up once the comments get deep. The reserve held, but the gap never felt dramatic.

And let’s be real. This is a well-known seller, reachable off platform, with deep relationships. Despite all the tooling and the “bid goes on” mechanics, a meaningful percentage of deals still get done the old-fashioned way once the auction ends. Quiet calls. Direct conversations. Numbers getting sharpened.

This feels like one of those cases. The buyer is known, capable, and easy to engage. The seller will do everything possible to get it across the line. If this one trades away from the platform, it will feel less like a surprise and more like how this part of the market still works.

Interesting Auctions To Keep An Eye On

Watching the tape on this one.

Same car. Same platform. Different moments.

Back in 2023, this M4 sold on Cars & Bids for $57,000 with just 3,200 miles. In November of last year, it came back showing more use and topped out at a $48,250 high bid, failing to sell. Now it’s back again, mileage up to roughly 16,200, and the objective feels obvious. The hope is that the market is ready to meet it back in the 50s.

That’s what makes this interesting.

On paper, it’s the right spec. Manual gearbox. Competition Package. BMW Individual Tanzanite Blue. Exactly the kind of configuration enthusiasts still want as manuals thin out and F8X cars move into their next phase. The mileage is still reasonable, but this is no longer a time capsule. It’s been driven, and buyers will price that in.

What matters here is context. We have two clear data points already. One strong sale when the car was nearly new. One stalled auction once the miles and the market caught up. This auction becomes the third, and likely the most honest, read on where this car actually sits today.

Re-lists are revealing like that. Sometimes they reward patience. Sometimes they confirm resistance. Sometimes they simply show the floor. With recent, public pricing on the same platform, buyers aren’t guessing. They’re anchoring.

I love tracking cars like this across platforms and over time. They say more about the market than any single result ever could. I’ll be keeping a close eye on where this one lands.

Nine miles. I’ll say it again because it almost feels like a typo. Nine miles.

I get preservation. I get end-of-era collecting. I even get the logic behind parking something like this the minute it rolls off the truck. But let’s be honest with ourselves for a second. If this were sitting in my driveway, it wouldn’t still have single-digit mileage. Not a chance.

This is a Redeye Jailbreak. Plum Crazy. 807 horsepower. A car Dodge built as a final middle finger to restraint. They didn’t engineer this thing so it could be admired quietly with the key fobs in a drawer. They built it to be loud, slightly unhinged, and unforgettable every time you start it.

Nine miles means it’s never really been driven. No heat in the fluids. No supercharger howl under load. No moment where you lift and laugh because the car just did something ridiculous. That’s the part that feels wrong. This isn’t a museum piece. It’s a modern muscle car that exists to deliver experiences, not just future optionality.

And maybe that’s the real split. Some people collect the idea of a car. Others collect the memories that come from using it. I’m firmly in the second camp. If I owned this, the mileage would be climbing fast, and I’d be perfectly fine with that. Cars like this aren’t meant to stay perfect. They’re meant to be lived with.

Whoever ends up with it gets to make that call. Keep it frozen. Or finally let it stretch its legs. Personally, I know which option I’d choose the moment the garage door goes up.

This is exactly my kind of listing.

Not flashy. Not rare. Not trying too hard. Just an honest, well-used car that tells its story without apology. One owner. 189k miles. No reserve. And barely any eyes on it right now.

I love cars like this because they remind you what the platform is actually good at. Surfacing real-world cars with real history that still have plenty of life left. A W202 C280 with the M104 inline-six is not exotic, but it is proper old-school Mercedes engineering. Overbuilt, smooth, durable, and capable of doing another 50k miles without drama if it’s been looked after. And this one clearly has been.

Yes, the mileage is high. That’s the point. This car didn’t sit. It didn’t get babied. It did exactly what a mid-90s Mercedes was meant to do. Commute. Cruise. Rack up miles quietly while everything still works. The headliner isn’t sagging. The AC works. The engine has documented attention. That matters far more to me than a low odometer number on a car like this.

Right now it’s sitting at $500. That won’t last, but the lack of early action is what makes these interesting. High-mileage, no-reserve sedans don’t trigger bidding wars until late, and sometimes they don’t at all. When that happens, opportunities appear. Not flip opportunities. Ownership opportunities.

This is the kind of car you buy because you want something dependable, comfortable, and mechanically honest. Something you can drive without stress. Something that still feels like a Mercedes before everything got screens and complexity layered on top.

If it keeps tracking quietly like this, I’d be paying attention. Cars like this don’t make headlines, but they often end up being the most satisfying buys of the week.