RM Sotheby's

RM Sotheby's has built a genuinely dominant position in collector car auctions by combining Rob Myers' original hands-on restoration expertise with Sotheby's brand authority and marketing reach, a partnership that has proven more effective than either party would likely have achieved alone. Holding the record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction, the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe at 135 million euros, is a striking data point, but the more telling evidence is the consistency of its flagship sales at Monterey, Amelia Island, and Villa Erba, which have become fixtures of the collector calendar precisely because consignors trust the house to achieve strong results reliably, not just occasionally. Specialist cataloguing across pre-war classics through modern supercars requires genuinely deep technical and provenance expertise that generalist auction houses handling cars as a side category typically lack. The addition of private sales, estate management, and collector financial services shows the house understands that serious collectors need more than transactional bidding events. Bidding access across in-person, phone, and digital platforms keeps the process accessible globally. It is close to the definitive name in this specialist auction category.