Road & Motor

Collecting

Collector automobiles, provenance, auctions, restoration and the collections that preserve automotive history.

A silver Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse on grass at a concours event

Collecting

Provenance Is the Product at Zurich

Broad Arrow returns to the Dolder Grand on Saturday 7 November with more than 80 collector cars, almost half of them offered without reserve. The catalogue is built less on horsepower than on paper: a Geneva show car, an unrestored Gullwing offered for the first time in 32 years, and a LaFerrari the room will be allowed to price on its own.

Red Ferrari LaFerrari on display at a concours event

Collecting

Thirty-Four Million Euros in Belgium: What the Zoute Results Actually Say

Broad Arrow's second Zoute Concours Auction totalled 34.6 million euros with a 91 percent sell-through rate, the highest grossing collector car auction in Belgian history. The Holy Trinity cleared ten million euros between three cars, but the most instructive result wore a BMW badge and a Volkswagen engine.

Silver Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse roadster at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed

Collecting

Zurich and Nashville: The Week the Modern Hypercar Took the Auction Room

A Veyron at CHF 4,505,000 in Zurich and a $73 million debut in Nashville point the same way: the modern limited-run hypercar now commands the auction room's top lines. Read the prices precisely, though, because the catalogues tell a more selective story than the headlines.

1924 BSA barn find motorcycle

Collecting

Preservation vs Restoration: The Collector's Hardest Choice

A barn find with its history intact or a concours winner with its history erased? As the market learns to price originality, the preservation class has become the most interesting argument in collecting.

The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe CSX2300 at the Gooding Christie's Pebble Beach auction

Collecting

The $747.9 Million Week: What Monterey 2026 Really Said About the Collector Market

Record totals, a new benchmark for American cars, and a charity Ferrari that drew $40 million. A sober look at which numbers deserve the word record, and which merely got loud.