Sales at the 2023 Scottsdale auctions totaled more than $263 million, according to Hagerty, pushing the January total to over $487 million–the strongest January to date.
That high number comes with a caveat: The pandemic boom is likely over, as Hagerty noticed many who bought cars …
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Very interesting!
Any info on how many vehicles were sold?
Curious: If Barrett-Jackson had an average sale of $97K, with the top four well over $1Mil and the top ten all north $500K, I wonder what the bottom 50 cars sold for?
(Besides the obvious "still more than I can afford.")
According to the data I'm looking at, a total of 2436 cars were sold.
And as far as your Barrett-Jackson question, I'd have to do a lot more digging, but I know that there are a lot of cars (in pretty much every auction) that are often a bit more pedestrian than the top-tier blue chips that get all the media attention.
Hey, BaT sold a Rabbit GTi for $87K!