It started on the Autobahn.
Where this comes from
Big Motors Co. was started by someone who grew up in Germany, on roads with no speed limit, at an age when a 911 going past is an event. The 964 and the 993 were the cars of that childhood. Ordinary traffic there. Never ordinary to him.
The first Porsche he bought himself was a 997 Turbo. Same shape, same badge, a long way from the roadside. That car is the reason this company exists.
Big Motors Co. is a second business. The first is a consulting practice. This one was built out of the cars, and it is run by people who would own most of what passes through it.
Why that matters to a seller
We do not need your car to sell this month. There is no number set by somebody else, no quarter to close, and nothing here we would be embarrassed to stand next to. When we tell you what your car is worth, nothing on our side is pushing the figure.
Somebody who has to sell your car this month is not negotiating for you.
He is negotiating for himself.
Same car. Same market.
Presented right.
What representation is worth
The same car can make two very different numbers, and usually nothing about the car explains the gap. Two of the cars we have sold had already been through auction. Both failed there. Neither car was changed afterwards, and neither market moved.
Porsche Cayenne 957 Dakar
Porsche 911 2.0 Cup Edition
A full Zeus build, designed by its owner, and well known across the Porsche community online. Auction could not find the bidder.
It came to us and sold a few months later at the full asking price, without a thing being done to the car.
A competition car carrying an FIA passport valid to 2031, which is the detail that decides who may buy it and what it is worth to them.
Auction went as far as it was going to go. We sold it a few weeks later, to a buyer who understood the passport.
57%
Above the top auction bid
86%
Above the top auction bid
Neither of those is what we promise. Thirty to forty per cent above the highest bid a car reached at auction is the range we tell a seller to expect, and we would rather beat it than advertise it.
Seven days online or a minute under the hammer, an auction ends on the date it set.
We go looking for the buyer who was never in that room.
Cars with a story worth telling.
What we deal in
We specialise in the cars that matter. Not every car that has value, but every car that has character. Each one chosen because age, condition, rarity and real demand line up in the right way.
Porsche
Grand Touring and Luxury
Where Big Motors Co. lives. From the 356 to the 992, the Carrera GT to the 918, and every GT car in between. The legends we know by heart.
Aston Martin up to the DB9. Bentley Arnage, Azure, Brooklands. Rolls-Royce to 2002. Cars built for long journeys and long ownership.
Classics and Young Timers
A generation grew up wanting these and is now collecting them. We know which examples are worth pursuing and which have been round the block too often.
Exotics and Enthusiast Cars
Ferrari and Lamborghini, and the cars enthusiasts actually chase. Purist BMW M like the E30 M3 and the E46 CSL, and the hand built pre merger AMG Hammers.
If it matters to a serious buyer, it matters to us.
We started with the ones
nobody could get.
What has passed through
We started with GT3 RS and GT2 RS, at the point when they were the hardest cars in the world to buy. More than a dozen went through the business, one of them with no air conditioning and full racing specification, sold here in the Gulf. That is how this began. It did not stay there.
Since then
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Porsche Carrera GT on delivery kilometres
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Mercedes-Benz SL 600, R129, a great many of them
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BMW M5 CS, about as few kilometres as the model comes
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Porsche GT2 RS, Miami Blue, zero kilometres
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Bentley Arnage Le Mans Series, close to delivery kilometres
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Rolls-Royce Silver Spur, 1996, ten thousand kilometres, as it left the factory
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Aston Martin DBS, 2009, manual V12 on delivery kilometres, still with us
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BMW E31 Alpina, manual
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Porsche 911s, every generation, continuously
We brokered a 911 GT1 Straßenversion, one of about twenty five road cars Porsche built to homologate the racer. The work is never finding the car. It is finding the one collector in the world who can buy it.
We know what to look for.
How a car is represented
Years of buying, selling and inspecting in this market produce a clear picture of what a good example looks like, and what a well presented one looks like. They are not always the same thing.
The inspection
The presentation
Paint thickness on every panel. Service history read for what is missing, not only for what is there. Options checked against what should be present for the production year and the specification. Chassis, engine, gearbox, colour and trim checked for matching numbers.
Photography that shows the car as it is. A written description that explains the car rather than lists it. It goes to buyers we already know before it goes anywhere public. Every enquiry qualified before anybody stands next to it.
We say what is true about a car even when it costs us the quick sale. A flaw disclosed early is a negotiation. The same flaw found later is a collapsed deal.
We represent every car with the same honesty we would want if we were the buyer.
Two options.
Whichever works for you.
Two ways to sell
We buy the car
We represent it
If you want it done and finished, we buy outright. An honest offer against the car and the market as it stands today. We agree a price and we proceed. No viewings, no strangers, no waiting.
If you are not in a hurry and want the higher number, representation is the stronger route. The car stays with us. We present it, find the buyer and manage everything through to handover.
Commission, timing and payment are set out in full in the seller pack.
What we carry
Photography, the write up, every listing and platform fee, paid promotion, enquiry handling, viewings and negotiation. There is no upfront cost to a seller.
We represent every car with the same honesty we would want if we were the buyer.
Tell us about the car.
The next step
Send the model, the year, the mileage and whatever photographs you have. You get an honest assessment and an indicative range within twenty four hours. Nothing signed, no obligation, and if we are not the right home for the car we will say so.
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How do I sell a collector car in Dubai?
Do you buy outright or sell on consignment?
Send the model, the year, the mileage and whatever photographs you have. You get an honest assessment and an indicative range within twenty four hours. From there you either take our offer or we represent the car and sell it for you.
Both. We buy outright if you want it done and finished, at an honest price against the market as it stands today. If you are not in a hurry, representation usually returns the higher number. The car stays with us and we manage it through to handover.
What does it cost a seller?
Nothing upfront. Photography, the write up, every listing and platform fee, paid promotion, enquiry handling, viewings and negotiation are all carried by us. Commission, timing and payment are set out in full in the seller pack.
What cars do you take?
Porsche above all, from the 356 to the 992. Grand touring and luxury, Aston Martin up to the DB9, Bentley and Rolls-Royce. Classics and young timers. Exotics, purist BMW M and pre merger AMG. Collector and performance cars only, not everyday stock.