RM Auctions is calling its 2011 Arizona auction an unqualified success, posting a record $30.8 million in sales with a 96 percent sell-through — the highest ever in the event’s 12-year history. Helping boost the bottom line, four of the 180 cars offered sold for more than one million. Perhaps the most surprising of those […]
The process of consolidation in the auction world took a big step forward today, when Carlisle Events and RM subsidiary Auctions America announced a joint agreement. In effect, Carlisle will get out of the auction business, and RM will get into swap meets: Auctions America will run the April Spring Carlisle and September Fall Carlisle […]
2011 is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest sports cars ever built (and, in the words of Road & Track, “the greatest crumpet collector known to man”), the Jaguar E-type. This fact has not escaped the attention of the auction houses: There will be no fewer than 14 E-types for sale during the […]