At some point, evolved from a place you could buy a clunker on the nice(r) side to one where pristine machines that aren’t always terribly rare but with only a handful of miles on them changed ownership at tip-top dollar. , I suppose. Here are some of the more bemusing ones.

The following cars are what a Bring A Trailer spokesperson called “surprising,” but are probably more accurately “offensive.” There are no Ferraris or vintage Aston Martins on this list, if you get my drift. They are cars he picked that brought in usually high amounts of money and “broke records for individual models.”

They may not be your cup of tea, but here goes.

Okay, to be fair, the blue and tan interior is pretty ace. But it’s an automatic, which sort of defeats the purpose of this unicorn wagon. The said it had 53,000 miles on the clock and it ultimately sold for over 25 grand. I don’t know, man. ? It was being sold for $11,500.

The white Honda CR-X Patrick George () made the list. And at a final price of , it’s very obvious why.

Patrick mused, “A CRX, going for as much as a nicely equipped new Subaru BRZ. Never thought I’d see the day, man. I remember when CRXs were dirt cheap, and generally treated in accordance with that.”

Same, dude. Same. I guess really nice ones are expensive now.

I directly blame Radwood for this one. Well, most of these are Radwood-bait, but this MR2 especially. For just $10,000, you could climb into the new Supra. But, I’m pretty sure which car this lot would choose.

And it’s truly a . I’m only salty because it’s way out of my price range.

With , this cream-colored Benz turbodiesel wagon is definitive Jalopnik cool. It doesn’t look like it has any rust, either. But it also sold for, like, the same amount of money as a typical luxury car now. This one would probably stay running for longer, though.

I had no idea people liked Syclones this much. I also guess I had no idea how rare they are. claims only 2,995 were built, ever. Hmmm. And with only 4,000 miles on it. Alright, proceed.

I remember . . He called the car perfect. Is this the price we are willing to pay for perfection?

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This one, to me, is kind of like, “No shit.” It and was imported from Japan to Germany in 2015, and then brought to California.

Are you kidding me? What’s special about this thing?

Oh, I see. From the :

This 1970 Datsun 240Z is a Series I example which was restored by Bill Reagan of Texas in the early 1990s, subsequently receiving a Gold Medallion award from the National Z-Car Convention as well as being displayed at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York. The car was also featured during the induction of former Nissan Motor Corporation USA president Yutaka Katayama into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1998, and was further used as the basis for a Franklin Mint model wearing the same chassis number.

Power is from a numbers-matching 2.4-liter inline-six paired with a four-speed manual gearbox, and the car is finished in orange over a black interior. This 240Z is offered by the selling dealer in Oklahoma with a Franklin Mint model signed by Katayama, supporting documentation and memorabilia, factory literature, restoration photographs, a Gold Medallion award, and a clean Delaware title.

Alright, alright. Carry on, I guess.

Look it’s so cute! It’s one of about 15 “Beach Cars.” Of those, 13 were left-hand drive examples that we got here in the U.S. for the purposes of promoting Mini in North America.

And now I’m going to go have a drink after .

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on these cars, because they are genuinely wonderful. But, like, someone paid nearly 40 grand on a Toyota MR2 Turbo? Look guys, it’s your money and you can do whatever you want with it. But, Jesus. The Radwood-era car price inflation is real.