Market intelligence for collector cars

Sale prices, depreciation curves, buyer sentiment, and what drives value — for 26 nameplates across 19 makes.

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Each make page shows every model we track. Click into a model for the full buyer's guide — market snapshot, price drivers, buyer personas, recent comps, and what to actually buy.

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Market snapshot

Median sold

Sold in last 24 mo

6-mo trend

Model confidence

Sale price vs. mileage

The honesty layer

Sweet spot

What drives the price

Regression coefficients from our hedonic model. Positive values add to price; negative subtract.

Trim-level premiums

How each trim prices relative to the baseline trim for this nameplate. Solid bars are statistically significant; hatched bars are suggestive.

What buyers say

Myth vs. market

Common collector beliefs the auction data contradicts. If a conventional wisdom lines up with the market, it's not listed here.

Five ways to buy this car

Recent comparable sales

Year / Trim	Miles	Sold	Date	Venue	Deal

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Put two or three cars side by side. Same data, same methodology — so a difference in the table reflects a real difference in the market, not a difference in how we counted.

Price at a glance

Median sale over the last 24 months — bars scale to the highest car in your comparison.

Takeaway

Insights

How the collector-car market actually works, what's moving this quarter, and how to read the data behind the buyer's guides. Written and generated from the same 57-vehicle corpus.

Q1 2026 market pulse

Market Pulse · Featured

The quarter the moderate-R² market woke up

Seven of our fourteen makes saw their median price move by more than 2% in Q1. For three years the "liquid, moderate-confidence" bracket has been the least interesting story in the corpus — steady, predictable, and boring. That changed in February. Here's where the money is moving, what it means, and which segments are likely next.

8 min read · Apr 19, 2026 · Written piece

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New pieces land roughly weekly. Market Pulse refreshes the first Monday of each month with fresh data from the last 90 days; written pieces are deliberately lower-volume and higher-signal.

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Ask questions when you already know what you're looking for — specific models, specific price points, specific trade-offs. If you're still figuring out what to shop for, Browse is usually the faster starting point.

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What's the cheapest collector-grade AMG under $40K?

Two candidates from your price band:

Mercedes-Benz C63 W204 — median $33,000, 71 sales, Moderate confidence (R²=0.72). Naturally-aspirated 6.2L V8; appreciating gently as the turbo successors disappoint.
Mercedes-Benz E63 W212 — median $34,000, 111 sales, High confidence (R²=0.89). Best-fit car in the corpus; the wagon variant commands a clear premium.

Both sit just under $40K. The W212 has the stronger trajectory (+4.3%/mo vs. +0.2%/mo for the C63), and its R²=0.89 hedonic fit means the price you see is the price the data says it should be — fewer surprises.

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Answers are grounded in the OTTO corpus — 57 vehicles, 19 makes, 26 nameplates. If we don't track it, we'll say so.