We here at the Gear Patrol motoring desk spend an inordinate amount of time lurking on Bring a Trailer. It’s a phenomenal resource, and a great deal of fun. But we’d also argue it can be a pernicious force that inspires people to pay way too much for niche gems from years past. In some cases, a bidding war among the well-heeled takes things ad absurdum.
Here are eight cars from 2020 that, for whatever reason (probably an impossibly low mileage count), fetched far more than they should have in a Bring a Trailer auction.
1957 BMW 507 Roadster (Bid to $1,957,507)
Bring a TrailerYou may not have heard of the BMW 507. It was a late 1950s roadster, one that was cripplingly expensive to build. Only 252 were made. The incredible part of this auction? Not that bidding nearly hit $2 million, but that the high bid didn’t hit the reserve.
