It’s the summer season and that means more sales than ever with just over $13m in sales across all platforms. Yesterday Cars & Bids brought in their 6th ever largest sale with the $600k of the Ferrari 330 P4 Recreation.

If you remember yesterday we featured the 1998 Ferrari 550 Maranello with its checkered past. Well it finally sold fourth time around (assuming the sale goes through). Interestingly, in the auction the highest bid was $122k and was therefore RNM. But PCar was able to persuade the highest bidder to make one final bid of $150k to close the deal. It’s a good reminder that often the deals don’t end when the auction ends, for good and for bad!

💰 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.

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Regular readers will know I have a bit of a soft spot for wagons, and this is about as good as they get if you're an Audi enthusiast.

The S6 Plus Avant was a one year only model and Audi built just 855 of them. They never officially came to the U.S., which makes this Nogaro Blue example even more special.

What I enjoyed just as much as the car itself was reading through the comments. Rather than giving short answers, the seller explained exactly how he found it in Switzerland, drove it around Europe with his daughter before shipping it home, packed the container with spare C4 parts, and even admitted he swore he'd never import another car after a previous S8 cost him over $20,000 and 18 months of headaches. That's the sort of story you simply don't get from a classified listing.

At $12,000 with almost a week still to go, I suspect there's plenty more to come. Cars this rare don't appear very often, and when they're offered by someone who's owned them for 15 years and can tell you every chapter of their journey, buyers tend to pay attention.

I'm not sure I've ever seen another Bentley quite like this.

Yes, it's based on a 1954 R-Type, but that's only part of the story. More than $100,000 was spent creating this one-off Sedanca, inspired by the beautiful Gurney Nutting-bodied Bentleys of the 1950s. The end result doesn't feel like a modified Bentley. It feels like the car Bentley forgot to build.

What impressed me most wasn't how much was spent, it was the attention to detail. This clearly wasn't a quick restoration or someone's weekend project. From the custom coachwork to the beautifully trimmed interior and concours-winning finish, it's obvious that whoever commissioned this wanted to build the best car they possibly could. The history file is even packed with restoration photos and invoices documenting the journey.

Whether it's your sort of car or not almost doesn't matter. You can appreciate the craftsmanship that went into creating something completely unique. One-off cars like this are incredibly difficult to value, which is exactly why I'll be keeping an eye on this no reserve auction.

There was a time when the BMW M6 sat in the shadow of the E30 M3. Today, I think more and more enthusiasts are realizing just how special these cars really are.

For me, this is one of BMW's best looking designs. The shark nose, the pillarless windows, the subtle rear spoiler. It has all the aggression you'd expect from an M car, but without shouting about it.

It also comes from an era that we'll probably never see again. A naturally aspirated straight six, a five speed manual, no driving modes, no giant screens, and no unnecessary gimmicks. Just a great engine, a great chassis, and one of the best grand tourers BMW has ever built.

BMW only built 1,767 U.S. specification M6s between 1987 and 1989, so these were never common to begin with. Finding one today that hasn't been neglected, over-modified, or hidden away for decades is getting harder.

That's why this Cinnabar Red example works for me. It has just under 69,000 miles, annual specialist servicing, and enough use that you wouldn't feel guilty actually driving it. The best M cars shouldn't feel like museum pieces. They should still make you want to take the long way home.

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