The Daily Vroom website Is Back. So Are The Calculators.

If you tried visiting The Daily Vroom over the past few days, you probably noticed the website had completely disappeared. Without warning, our hosting company pulled the plug on the site and despite repeated attempts to get answers, we got absolutely nowhere. Whether it was a technical issue, a security issue, or something else entirely, I still don't really know, but what I did know was that sitting around waiting wasn't going to get the site back online.

Thankfully, we had backups. (an important lesson never to be solely reliant on any one company) So while most people were enjoying their weekend, the team spent ours rebuilding the site from scratch and getting everything back online as quickly as possible. My instructions were pretty simple: I didn't care what the homepage looked like, I didn't care about fancy features, and I definitely didn't care about perfect formatting. Get the calculators back online first.

The reason is simple. They're tools I actually use myself and problems I've personally run into.

The Domestic Shipping Calculator solves one of my biggest frustrations when buying cars online. Every transport website seems to want your email address, phone number and permission to call you three times a day before they'll show you a quote. Ours doesn't. Enter the pickup and delivery locations, get a live quote in seconds and move on with your day. No forms, no sales calls and no nonsense. If you want to run twenty quotes, go right ahead. It's completely free.

The Import Calculator was built for a different reason. You find the perfect car in Europe or Japan, agree on a price, and then start wondering what it's actually going to cost by the time it lands in your driveway. Between tariffs, duties, freight, insurance, customs fees, taxes and a dozen other charges, the answer is usually a lot harder to work out than people expect.

So we built a tool that does the heavy lifting for you. The calculator pulls together the latest tariffs, duties, freight estimates and fees to give you a much clearer idea of what a car could actually cost before you commit to buying it. Again, completely free to use. (and no email needed)

The site is now back online, both calculators are live, and over the coming weeks we'll continue improving everything and adding more content. As frustrating as these last few days was, it also gave us the opportunity to build a better foundation for what's coming next.

And while getting the site back online was priority number one, we're still deep in the trenches working on several new tools and features that we think could genuinely change the way enthusiasts buy, sell and research cars online.

More on those very soon.

In the meantime check out the newly designed site TDV here. And our calculators are below.

Import Calculator

Domestic Shipping Calculator

It wasn't on my bingo card this year that the first potential eight figure online auction sale would come from DuPont Registry Live, but credit where it's due. If online auctions are ever going to seriously challenge the traditional auction houses at the very top end of the market, somebody has to be willing to put the cars up. In this case, they've done exactly that with a 2003 Ferrari Enzo finished in Rosso Dino showing just 3,758 miles.

And make no mistake, this is a big one.

The highest publicly reported online auction sale I'm aware of remains the 161-mile 2017 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta that sold on BaT for $5.36 million back in 2022. This Enzo has the potential to blow straight through that number and establish an entirely new benchmark for what can be achieved online with a current bid at just over $9m.

What makes this auction even more fascinating is the timeline. This same Enzo sold publicly at Mecum in January for $11.1 million with 3,746 miles. Today it sits on DuPont Registry showing 3,758 miles and carrying a no reserve tag. The CARFAX appears to show a new owner this year, although exactly how the car got from the Mecum stage to this auction is not entirely clear.

Which brings me to the part I find most interesting.

The bidders are bidding. Yet there are a number of questions that don't seem to be getting asked.

Did the Mecum sale close exactly as reported?

Did the buyer immediately decide to move the car on?

Is DuPont selling on behalf of the current owner?

Did DuPont acquire the car directly?

And perhaps the biggest question of all: who is comfortable putting an eight figure Ferrari into a no reserve auction only a few months after it traded publicly for $11.1 million?

Maybe the answer is simple. Maybe there's a perfectly straightforward explanation for all of it. I genuinely don't know.

What I do know is that no matter which explanation you choose, somebody is taking a very significant risk.

If the January sale closed at $11.1 million, that's a huge amount of money to expose to a no reserve auction.

If the final transaction ended up being less than $11.1 million after negotiations, that's still a huge amount of money to expose to a no reserve auction.

If the January sale never ultimately went through, then the seller is potentially taking an even bigger gamble today.

That's why I find this auction so compelling. Not because I think anything is wrong, but because I think there are a lot of interesting questions sitting just beneath the surface of what could become the largest online auction sale we've ever seen.

And regardless of where it ends, credit to DuPont Registry Live for putting the car on the stage in the first place. It's exactly the kind of auction that gets people talking about the future of high-end online sales.