Duesenberg

After the first big online-only foray by the biggest automotive auction cluster on Planet Earth, it's clear that automobiles are not particularly suited to online-only auctions, but that significant strides were made in the right direction.

The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, now in its 24th year, is a multi-faceted diamond, with many ancillary events combining to offer something for everyone, regardless of which genre of automobiles an individual might be interested in.

The 2019 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance continued to grow in stature this year, but it was the symbiotic cluster of elite auctions that threw up the most interesting results. The collector car market is undergoing generational change, attracting a younger clientele driving prices below $500,000.

The 2018 Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, the defacto world championship for concours cars, will be announced in Paris on February 7, 2019. The eight contenders for the award have already won major concours events during 2018. Here's our rundown of the cars in contention.

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was held last Sunday, with 209 of the most celebrated examples of automotive art displayed on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Course, just outside Monterey in California. ​Here are the pick of the pics taken by Angus MacKenzie and Somer Hooker at the event.

Monterey Car Week is an auction venue like no other on the planet. Six major auctions occur during 72 hours, all within a few miles of each other, with a third of a billion dollars in sales. Here are the top 200 cars which caught our eye during the Monterey sales.

Many great cars have been built across the world in the last 120 years, but the Duesenberg SSJ going to auction with Gooding & Company on August 25, 2018, is arguably the most important road car produced by the American auto industry which dominated the century of the automobile.

Our Monterey Car Week report covers the 113 cars with estimates over US$1 million and what happened to them.

Eddie Paul built the original cars for "Grease", "Back to the Future" and "Fast and the Furious" – and now he's preparing to go into production with a series of replicas of Duesenberg Torpedo Phaeton convertibles from the 1930s.

The next fortnight sees one of the most concentrated periods of auction activity outside Monterey Car Week. The action is spread across two main locations in Scottsdale, Arizona and Paris, France, where the Retromobile Exhibition is held in the city which pioneered auto racing 120 years ago.

Two auctions at the extremities of the world on consecutive days last weekend highlight the importance of the internet in the modern elite auction process.

Despite some forebodings that the collectible car market had finally "topped out", it appears that predictions of its demise were somewhat premature. In the last eight days, 14 cars have topped the magic million dollar mark across six auctions.