Fisherley Market Intelligence
📍 ‘The collector-car market is delivering a familiar message: exceptional machinery still attracts exceptional money.’
October’s European and American auctions reveal enthusiastic bidding at the top, but increasing discrimination elsewhere.
The badge opens the door. The individual car closes the deal.
♔ Full Story
‘The Market Hasn’t Lost Its Appetite. Just Its Patience.’
▪️October has produced some fascinating results.
▪️Collectors are spending millions, although apparently no longer prepared to throw money at anything wearing a prancing horse.
The numbers tell the story:
▪️Ferrari LaFerrari: €5.18 million at Broad Arrow’s Zoute auction, establishing a Belgian collector-car auction record.
▪️Porsche 918 Spyder: €3.21 million at the same sale, demonstrating continued demand for exceptional modern hypercars.
▪️Lamborghini Miura P400S: €1.725 million at Bonhams’ Zoute sale. Italian glamour remains reassuringly expensive.
▪️RM Sotheby’s Hershey: $13.8 million in sales and a reported 99% sell-through rate. Yet individual prices revealed a distinctly selective market.
‘The contrast is instructive.’
▪️Broad Arrow achieved a 91% sell-through rate at Zoute, while Bonhams recorded approximately 76% at its neighbouring event
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▪️Different catalogues, certainly. But a reminder that demand is not distributed equally.
▪️For collectors, provenance, originality, specification and sensible estimates increasingly matter more than extravagant catalogue adjectives.
♔ The bottom line: The market isn’t necessarily retreating. It is becoming more discerning.
📍 ‘In the finest collecting circles, rarity commands attention. Quality commands the cheque book.’
