Tuesday on Bring a Trailer and the lineup reads like someone raided the dream garages of four different personality types simultaneously. We’ve got a pair of Ferraris, enough Porsches to fill a Stuttgart showroom, a supercharged American sleeper, and — because BaT is nothing if not wonderfully unhinged — an actual Porsche-branded farm tractor. Grab a coffee. Let’s dig in.
32k-Mile 2004 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
The Challenge Stradale is the car Ferrari built for people who found the regular 360 Modena a little too easy to live with — stripped, stiffened, and tuned for the track but road-legal enough to make your commute genuinely dangerous to your license. At just 32,000 miles, this one has been used but not abused, which for a CS is actually the right answer. These have been climbing hard and show no signs of stopping. Bid on this 2004 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale on Bring a Trailer and prepare for the number to get uncomfortable quickly.
1996 Porsche 911 Gunther Werks 400R Sport Touring #1
Gunther Werks takes the air-cooled 993-generation 911 and reimagines it into something that never existed from the factory but absolutely should have. The 400R Sport Touring is the more civilized sibling to their track-focused builds — grand touring intent wrapped in obsessively crafted coachwork. The fact that this is listed as number one of the Sport Touring series makes it genuinely significant to collectors. Check out this Gunther Werks 400R Sport Touring #1 at Bring a Trailer and appreciate that no two of these are alike.
4,900-Mile 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
Four thousand nine hundred miles. On an SLS AMG. Someone bought one of the most dramatic, gull-winged, V8-screaming cars Mercedes has produced in decades and basically never drove it, which is equal parts tragedy and collector’s lottery ticket. The SLS is already hitting its stride as a future classic — it was the first car fully developed in-house by AMG and it looks like nothing else on the road. Place your bid on this near-new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG before someone with deeper pockets notices it’s there.
41k-Kilometer 2008 Porsche 911 GT3
The 997-generation GT3 is the sweet spot that a lot of serious drivers keep coming back to — naturally aspirated flat-six, rear-wheel drive, no electronic nannies you can’t dismiss, and a chassis balance that still benchmarks modern sports cars. Forty-one thousand kilometers is a reasonable real-world number that suggests this one actually got driven the way Porsche intended. See the full listing for this 41k-kilometer 2008 Porsche 911 GT3 and try not to mentally map your nearest canyon road.
Trilogy-Supercharged 2003 Mercury Marauder at No Reserve
Here’s your wildcard and I mean that with full affection. The Mercury Marauder was Ford’s attempt to sell performance nostalgia to people who remembered the original, and the Trilogy supercharger kit turns the already burly 4.6-liter V8 into something considerably less polite. No reserve means this thing sells to whoever shows up, and sleeper-muscle fans have been quietly driving prices on modified Marauders into very interesting territory. Don’t sleep on this Trilogy-supercharged Mercury Marauder no-reserve auction — pun fully intended.
1957 Porsche-Diesel 111 Tractor at No Reserve
Yes, Porsche made tractors. Between roughly 1956 and 1963, they built agricultural equipment with the same engineering seriousness they applied to sports cars, and the Porsche-Diesel line has developed a genuine collector following among people who want Porsche provenance but would rather not deal with concours insurance rates. This 1957 example at no reserve is the kind of listing that keeps BaT weird and wonderful. Bid on this 1957 Porsche-Diesel 111 Tractor — your farm deserves better provenance.
UK-Market 2010 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE
The 599 GTB is the grand tourer Ferrari built when they wanted to prove that a front-engined V12 could out-Ferrari just about anything. The HGTE package — Handling GT Evoluzione — sharpened the already excellent chassis with suspension, wheel, and brake upgrades that brought it meaningfully closer to the 599 GTO’s setup. UK-market provenance means right-hand drive and some patience with import paperwork for American buyers, but the reward is a V12 Ferrari at prices that still feel relatively reasonable. Explore this UK-market 2010 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE listing before the market figures out what these are worth.
Original-Owner 1993 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 at No Reserve
In 1993, the ZX-11 was among the fastest production motorcycles on the planet — the kind of machine that made sport bike riders feel like test pilots. An original-owner example at no reserve is exactly the kind of provenance story that makes collectors pay attention, and the ZX-11’s reputation among Kawasaki faithful is completely unimpeachable. Check out this original-owner 1993 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 no-reserve auction — two wheels, one owner, zero ceiling on nostalgia.
2018 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged
The air-suspended, supercharged V8 Range Rover occupies a very specific lifestyle niche: genuinely capable off-road, genuinely luxurious on-road, and genuinely terrifying to own out of warranty. An ’18 is still new enough to feel modern but old enough to have depreciated into the zone where the value proposition gets interesting for a buyer who knows what they’re getting into. See what this 2018 Range Rover Supercharged brings at auction and budget accordingly for whatever comes next.
That’s your Tuesday BaT digest — Ferraris, Porsches, a farm implement, and a supercharged American bruiser, all in one morning. None of these auctions have bids yet as we go to press, so the floor is wide open. Check back as the week progresses and things get loud. We’ll be watching.
