The Journal
The market, with a pulse.
Auction reports, buy signals, and strongly-held opinions on the cars worth owning — and the numbers behind them. Visceral about the machines, cold about the money.
August 2026: The SUV Bubble Deflates While Nineties Italy Roars
Range Rovers and F355s catch fire in Britain, the Diablo won't quit in Australia, and Monterey reminds America what a real Ferrari costs.
July 2026: The Air-Cooled Divide and a £180k Aston That Refuses to Die
Nineties Ferraris and R129s find new believers, while C3 Corvettes and W12 Bentleys get taken behind the barn.
June 2026: The R129 Rises, the Continental GT Collapses
Nineties Mercedes roadsters are the month's quiet story in Britain, while America decides depreciation applies to Bentleys after all.
A Maserati just sold for $5.2m and nobody should be surprised
The MC12 Stradale result at Monterey wasn't a shock. It was the market finally doing the maths the rest of us did a decade ago.
The air-cooled 911 is the most boring brilliant investment of our lifetime
Everyone saw it coming. Everyone bought it anyway. It still went up. Discuss.
Three pedals, please: the manual premium is real, measurable money
A clutch pedal is now a financial instrument. We have the comparison sales to prove it.
The R34 is landing in America and the numbers are about to get silly
The 25-year rule is a slow-motion demand cannon. It is now pointed at the most mythologised Skyline of all.
Restomods: automotive genius, or the greater-fool theory with carbon trim?
Singer, Kingsley, Heritage. The builds are sublime. The investment case is a knife fight. Let's have it.
Six cars your accountant will hate and your grandchildren will thank you for
Not a tip sheet. A way of thinking about the cars hiding in plain sight while everyone stares at the obvious ones.
The Marque Monthly
Market report archive.
- August 2026: The SUV Bubble Deflates While Nineties Italy RoarsRange Rovers and F355s catch fire in Britain, the Diablo won't quit in Australia, and Monterey reminds America what a real Ferrari costs.1 September 2026
- July 2026: The Air-Cooled Divide and a £180k Aston That Refuses to DieNineties Ferraris and R129s find new believers, while C3 Corvettes and W12 Bentleys get taken behind the barn.1 August 2026
- June 2026: The R129 Rises, the Continental GT CollapsesNineties Mercedes roadsters are the month's quiet story in Britain, while America decides depreciation applies to Bentleys after all.1 July 2026
Indicative only — not investment advice. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future value.