Sunday 3rd December 2023
The White Stuff: RM’s Texas all-Porsche sale grosses $29.4m
At a one-off, one-colour, almost exclusively Porsche event in Houston, Texas, RM sold all bar a single lot in the 62-car catalogue. Some of the prices realised will come as a shock to European eyes.
RM introduced the ‘The White Collection’ as representing “over a decade of dedicated co...
Monday 27th November 2023
RM's return to Munich grosses €15.63m
It wasn’t the barnstorming event we witnessed in 2022, but Canadian big hitter RM Sotheby’s held a businesslike auction at Motorworld München that sold nearly 90% of the 68-car catalogue.
The combination of auctioneer Sholto Gilbertson...
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Monday 27th November 2023
The Wolf of Abu Dhabi says “I Ain’t Going Nowhere” at Bonhams’ $13.8m Grand Prix weekend sale
Echoing the words of the movie’s protagonist Jordan Belfort before his downfall, the much-hyped (and dented) white 1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary that starred in The Wolf of Wall Street crashed again on auction night, failing to get ...
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Saturday 18th November 2023
Viva Las Vegas: RM grosses $52.7m at ‘fun capital of the world’
“I mean, what do you think we're doing out here in the middle of the desert? It's all this money.” Robert De Niro as Sam Rothstein in Scorsese’s 1995 motion picture Casino. Canadian firm RM hit the jackpot in Vegas this weekend by selling an...
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Tuesday 14th November 2023
RM sells GTO for $51.7m in New York
It had been billed as ‘The One’, a unique and fleeting opportunity which the auction house had compared to “a Perseid meteor... a flash of lightning... a speed machine so celebrated that it qualifies as the very definition of a legend,” wr...
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Wednesday 8th November 2023
Desert Storm: the invasion of no-reserve Aston Martins
For the last four years, a wave of ‘No Reserve’ Aston Martins from a mystery Middle Eastern consignor has hit the auction rooms. Most have been offered by Bonhams, though some – from a related source in the same region – have popped up at ...
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Sunday 5th November 2023
RM in London 2023: £13.3m gross at 70% sold by number
Taking a snapshot of the results published a day after the Canadian giant’s latest end-of-year London auction, the figures show a gross so far of £13,295,650. Seven out of ten motor cars in the catalogue found new homes.
New-for-2023 signi...
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