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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.

Same Year, Same Model, Completely Different Value

Two 2020 Ferrari 488 Pistas ended yesterday. One sold for $447,500. The other ran to $926,000 and didn’t meet reserve. If you reduce that to “what’s a 488 Pista worth?” you miss the entire lesson.

Because this isn’t about a Pista. You could swap in a 911 GT3 RS, a 240Z, a Gullwing, a Bronco, anything. The mistake is always the same. We treat year/make/model as if it carries a fixed number, and then we act surprised when reality refuses to cooperate.

The Nero coupe that sold had nearly 40,000 miles, four owners, a prior accident, and a structural damage announcement in its history. It was a driven car. A used car. A real-world car. The market priced that risk and landed just under $450,000. That is not “cheap.” It is context-adjusted.

The Rosso Spider that didn’t sell had roughly 5,000 miles, one owner, a clean Carfax, and collector-grade presentation. That is a different buyer pool, different psychology, different long-term thesis. It climbed into the $900s and stopped because reserve and buyer comfort didn’t quite overlap.

Same year. Same factory. Same engine. Completely different valuation stories.

This is where blanket statements and database averages start to fall apart. When someone says, “These trade at $X,” what they really mean is that some version of that car, under certain conditions, traded at that number. They are collapsing mileage, history, ownership chain, spec, timing, and venue into a single datapoint and pretending it represents the whole.

It doesn’t. Prices in this market are not static. They are dynamic reflections of risk and desirability layered on top of a model name. Every variable either expands the buyer pool or shrinks it. High miles narrow it. Accident history narrows it. One-owner, low-mile, clean-file examples expand it. Body style shifts it. Venue influences it. Reserve strategy tests it, plus many many other factors

That’s why two cars wearing the same badge can sit hundreds of thousands of dollars apart without the market being confused or irrational. The market is simply distinguishing between stories.

The real problem isn’t that a 488 sold for one number and another didn’t sell at a much higher one. The problem is assuming that any two cars sharing a year/make/model are interchangeable in the first place. They never are.

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