Worldwide Auctioneers

A pioneer electric car of historical significance is to be auctioned next month. The 1898 Riker won three of America's first car races, a Gold Medal at the 1900 Exposition Universalle Internationale in Paris, still runs perfectly and is in original, unrestored condition.

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.

The Scottsdale Auction Week provides the lens through which the remainder of each automobile auction year is viewed​. Here's our take on the market, plus a cross section of the most interesting cars offered last week in Scottsdale.

Our regular Monterey Car Week auction preview lists no less than 113 cars with estimates exceeding US$1 million. Read on for pictures, links to auction descriptions and all the key info.

The rash of supercars we have seen since the new millennium began are already beginning to ripen at auction, and no less than 17 modern supercars are expected to sell for more than a million dollars at Monterey Car Week this year.

There are two big motorcycle auctions that will be part of Monterey Car Week this year, one at Mecum, which acquired the world's largest motorcycle auction house, Mid-America, a few years back, and the other through Worldwide Auctioneers. We've put together the most interesting bikes available.

More cars went to auction in Scottsdale this year than ever before, with 2,900 cars sold and a sell-through rate of 83.2 percent. What did change though was the average sale price which declined from $115,640 in 2015 to $89,600 this year, indicating that quality cars are a very finite commodity.

Authenticity, rarity and provenance are all key variables in the value equation at collectible car auctions and celebrity cars represent one of the few sub-sets which can provide all three. Another fine crop of the star cars will go to auction this week. Here's our guide to what's available.​

The Scottsdale collector car auctions begin the year with six international auctions within the space of seven days​. Here's a look at the viewing times and the poster cars chosen by the auction houses as their banner carriers. ​

A $500,000 farm-find Aston Martin DB4, a $3.7 million copy of Newton's "Principia," a Hendrix acoustic guitar that sold for $260,000 and the only remaining Indian-Vincent prototype from 1949 are the highlights of this week's auction report.