25 supercars and luxury models were confiscated by Swiss authorities from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and sold at Bonhams auction in Switzerland last month.
While hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of collector cars once again changed hands at the world-renowned 2019 Monterey Car Week auctions, preliminary sale totals were reported by Hagerty Insurance and Larry Edsall of ClassicCars.com on Saturday, August 18th at $245.5 million.
The DB AR1 was a well thought-out machine, with big Brembo brakes featuring racing-style grooved discs, and four-piston calipers and the booster from a V12 Vanquish. There’s a limited-slip differential, and unique multi-spoke 19-inch alloy wheels use a revised offset to give a wider track.
The Aston Martin OHMSS DBS Superleggera edition is coming to the U.S. It was released in honor of the 50th anniversary of the sixth James Bond film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. The price in Britain was announced as £300,007, currently about $382,000.
Automobili Pininfarina’s 1,900-horsepower electric hypercar, the Battista will be sold in the U.S. The company said it would build just 150 of the $2m+ cars, splitting the allocation three ways between Europe, North America and the rest of the world.
At the Geneva Motor Show in early March, the storied British marque unveiled its next hypercar, the AM-RB 003. It puts the “hyper” in hypercard, and is similar to the Valkyrie.
Bugatti designed the single La Voiture Noire to celebrate the marque’s 110-year anniversary. The actual price was about $12.5m, or a bit more than double the price of last year’s Divo.
Now in its 24th year, the Amelia Island Concours is welcoming over 300 vehicles to the gentle slopes of The Amelia Island Golf Course. Past Best-in-Show winners have distinguished titles like Duesenberg, Bugatti, and Ferrari.
Straight from the garage to the bed of an enclosed transport, classics, exotics, and collectible cars skip the salt for the dry heat of Scottsdale Arizona. Last January, Scottsdale saw over 3000 automobiles cross the auction block in less than a week.
