United Kingdom
The headline number is 192 confirmed sales at a 28,325 GBP median — a perfectly ordinary late-summer heartbeat. The composition underneath is anything but. The biggest twelve-month mover is the Land Rover Range Rover (Classic), up 57.6% to a 23,250 GBP median on nine sales. Not a fluke, not a single hero car — a genuine bid under two-box aluminium boxes with wood veneer and a propensity to rust from the inside out. Below it, the BMW 318i (E30) is up 55.3%, though only across five sales, so treat the decimal with suspicion. The Ferrari F355 at +42.9% on nine cars is the more solid data point, and the 180,500 GBP paid for a 1997 Spider manual on Collecting Cars tells you where the manual-gated ceiling now lives.
The droppers are where the story turns cold. Mercedes-AMG G63 down 46.3%. Rolls-Royce Wraith down 44.4%. Lamborghini Huracán down 37.9%. Rolls-Royce Phantom (VII) down 37.3%. Bentley Bentayga down 37.0%. Every one of these is a five-to-seven-car sample, so don't take the percentages to the bank, but the direction is unanimous: the modern luxury-SUV-and-limousine complex is bleeding value across the board. These are cars that cost more to insure than to buy, and the market has noticed.
At the top end, a 216,500 GBP Ferrari 575 Superamerica and a 214,000 GBP delivery-mile 992.2 Turbo S Cabriolet led the window. Note that even the top of the UK market topped out just past 200k. This is not a hot summer up here.
Australia
Seventy-two sales, 52,000 AUD median — a small pond, so read percentages with tweezers. The Mazda RX-7 (FD) is up 47.1% on six sales to a 68,416 AUD median, which puts a clean twin-turbo rotary firmly into old-Porsche money. The Lamborghini Diablo is up 25.1% across nine sales to a 720,000 AUD median — the only genuinely thick sample among the movers and, to these ears, the most interesting datapoint in the country. Diablo money hasn't stopped climbing for three years. The Land Rover Series I and Toyota Land Cruiser (80 Series) round out an off-road-heavy leaderboard, both on six sales.
The droppers read like a JDM index correction. Honda NSX (NA1) down 27.8%, Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) down 22.3% on nine sales to a 181,000 AUD median, Porsche 911 (996) Carrera down 17.8%, and the Subaru Impreza WRX STi (GC8) down 9.6% on the healthiest sample of the lot at fourteen cars. The Gran Turismo generation is finally being priced by people who own the cars rather than by people who remember the posters.
The top individual result was a 308,500 AUD 2020 Lamborghini Urus. A super-SUV clearing three hundred grand in a market where the median car is fifty-two. Make of that what you will.
United States
The US did 5,263 sales at a 23,000 USD median, and Monterey dragged the tail of the distribution into the stratosphere. A 1996 Ferrari F50 at Mecum for 14,575,000 USD and an Enzo at 12,100,000 USD did most of the theatrical work, but the more useful story is in the movers. The Shelby GT350 is up 43.7% on twenty sales to a 203,500 USD median. Ferrari 360 Modena up 42.0% on sixteen. Ferrari F430 up 40.1% on eighteen to 169,500 USD. Porsche 911 (930) Turbo up 36.2% on twenty-one to 206,000 USD. These are all statistically meaningful samples, and they're all analog, hydraulic, air-cooled or carburetted. The mechanism is obvious: buyers are paying for driver involvement they can no longer purchase new.
The droppers are where American taste has visibly turned. Bentley Continental GT (W12) down 57.9% on twenty-eight sales. Chevrolet Corvette (C3) down 57.6% on fifty. Porsche 356 down 50.8% on thirty. Chevrolet 3100 Pickup down 50.3% on twenty-three. And, most tellingly, Ford Bronco (1st gen) down 47.0% across eighty-nine sales — the deepest sample on the board and the one that ends the argument about whether restomod Broncos were a bubble. They were.
Thesis
The pattern of the month is a straight rotation out of status-object cars — modern luxury SUVs, four-door Rolls-Royces, restomod trucks, blue-chip pre-war Porsches — and into unrepeatable driver's cars from the last analog decades, with Ferrari's 355-360-430 spine leading the charge across two continents. August 2026 wasn't a bull market or a bear market; it was a taste market, and taste got specific.