World's CRAZIEST Car Auction | Top Gear

We know car auctions. They’re either grotty places populated with car-dealing tyre-kickers looking for stock amongst unloved ex-rental repmobiles, or they’re ultra-exclusive, sip-champagne-on-immaculate-lawn events where exotic specimens (both cars and people) preen glossily and desire to be admired for their good taste and breeding.
Barrett-Jackson is what happens when the two are combined and tossed in a blender with a good helping of American showmanship, pizzazz, noise, energy, dodgy artwork, hype, scale, speedboats, dust, liquor, excitement and people. Oh, and the Blue Origin space capsule. It’s effervescent and weirdly, oddly captivating.
Special thanks to Barrett-Jackson for supplying auction footage.
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[@Tommmcat1990]

Top Gear KZbin > Top Gear TV

[@user-wk1ts5ux4h]

❤

[@frankmartinez2987]

From series 23 on, yeah.

[@Faces98A]

This bald guy lacks a lot

[@Faces98A]

Not just hair

[@AndrewCherry458]

Wollard, Goffey, Clarkson > Clarkson, Hammond, May

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

I love watching Barrett-Jackson car auctions on TV & now on KZbin.

[@onetruesavage]

I've always wanted to attend a Barrett Jackson auction. One day

[@dirtysanchez330]

Ollie, Jack and Chris honestly have the best jobs in the world. And they're brilliant at it

[@David-xc4us]

We need a U.K. version of this

[@CHET1]

You couldn’t handle it.

[@Dave-mv1yk]

I feel like there could be a 3 hour long video on the cars on exhibit and it wouldn't be long enough to cover all of them

[@BarrettJacksonTV]

Check out our TV broadcasts over on our channel, over 40 hours just from our 2023 Scottsdale Auction!

[@Nawang7848]

@@BarrettJacksonTVthanks man

[@clubsportr08]

Hmmm greatest quote ever "they go on for a week every single day." Said in one breath no pause.

[@Grandpa_Grinch]

I've been seeing Barrett-Jackson on TV & Internet for years & it's just mind blowing, the evenr they put on is spectacular & for a lot of people it's their vacation to go there & experience everything car related & enjoy the night time party events, it's petrol head heaven with hedonism thrown in.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

IKR? Have you heard that a Dodge Charger Daytona was sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction for over ONE MILLION DOLLARS?

[@Grandpa_Grinch]

@@ARTSONICFAN990 wasn't that Mecum Auctions the Daytona set a record at

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

@@Grandpa_Grinch Hmm, maybe your right.

[@jasons2562]

Loved this video, and quality 4K too ! great coverage

[@abdelhamidbc]

No sh.t 😂 It’s the bbc Literally nobody has been doing it for longer so no wonder they got the hang of it

[@BarrettJacksonTV]

Great video of our 2023 Scottsdale Auction, we hope to see you again soon!

[@exeuropean]

I have been to car auctions in the US where they have 8 lanes simultaneously selling cars. Each lane one car per minute.

[@popguy2815]

Yep, 90% near junk going to used car lots.

[@exeuropean]

@@popguy2815 You obviously never have been to these auctions These are wholsale car auctions, not for the public.

[@carspear]

Awesome production guys!!

[@eduardolanda]

Merica!!!!!

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

I love the line about questionable jewelry

[@Ryan_1997]

Bro that Batmobile🔥

[@HesteBremse]

Would loved to have seen some more ;D

[@dunderheadgood]

actually, the auction is no longer everything no reserve. they’ve been slowly and quietly allowing reserves lately

[@bicyclist2]

I've seen Barrett Jackson on TV. It looks so exciting. I hope to go some day. Thank you.

[@nahidrahman]

Awesome insight! Keep it up!

[@dkpirie]

I wanna go! It looks fantastic. I used to love going to the Motor Shows in the UK.

[@popguy2815]

Amazing how far it's grown since I went to a couple in the late '70s.

[@gotham61]

I went once a few years ago. It's a fantastic event.

[@user-ob3ry1rl5m]

Absolutely incredible🤯

[@EJFXxx]

you made me want to go ... its added to my bucket list

[@BarrettJacksonTV]

We hope to see you there!

[@michaelhickland4450]

I have seen Barratt Jackson before on Chasing Classic Cars so not that surprising

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

Chasing Classic Cars. I remember that show too.

[@4den63]

Now this is an awesome car auction

[@altonb93]

I go there just about every year and its always alot of fun

[@NEWNATURE777]

It's like SEMA, but all in One 😳

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

SEMA is for guys and girls who have small dicks who ride around in lifted vehicles that they don’t take off-roading at all.

[@kalebringenberg6446]

the bugatti belt buckle.... damn

[@mkk5024]

and they said rich niggas didn't wear designer belts

[@burnham7673]

Would have been great to have seen some of the auction.

[@BarrettJacksonTV]

Head over to our channel and you can watch the full TV broadcast and Livestream featuring "all the cars, all the time"!

[@eefm99]

I could listen to Mr. Craig Jackson narrate everything about cars, his voice is great.

[@matthewpennell4956]

Where did they find that in the woods

[@panzerabwehrkanonepak-4080]

I was there in 2018 and it was absolutely insane

[@T.S.T2014]

Ollie I have liked this for the first time with you as the lead presenter.

[@Tothefloor]

You should have said "For those of you who don't live in the USA I promise you have never seen anything like this before". We see auctions like this all the time.

[@United_Wings]

Wow 😮

[@danioger1125]

Crazy

[@Bitsnbitesy]

is that a supra!

[@Games_and_Music]

That looks like a great event to be at, i would just stroll around all the cars all day. Knowing that pretty much every car will be sold with no reserve, just wondering what that purple Diablo would go for, or the Batmobile. Pretty cool stuff.

[@hobosrev]

the shown batmobile sold for $220,000

[@LudiCrust.]

These Barrett Jackson auctions are on national tv in the US

[@teinspringz]

where is this?

[@SpartanHighKing14]

This car auction is so 'Murican!

[@sambanohamad8780]

I see that a rich person needs a Bugatti car to move around the city center and a helicopter to go everywhere

[@mamadoudianbarry7]

🔥🔥🔥

[@gibby7616]

I counted about 6 or 7 slights in there

[@danam0228]

You don't have anything like this in the UK? Some ARE sold with reserve. They are not all sold without reserve

[@joshuaidersaikhan9269]

I loved top gear back when they did those challenges

[@hamzaouamrouche57]

Barrett Jackson Scotsdale auction in USA

[@arghyadeep5279]

Want to be a part of this event❤🎉🤗

[@woodyholland9865]

Go to Mecum Kissimmee. 3000 cars over 2 weeks.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

You could find 50 cars you want to buy at every Barret Jackson Auction!

[@popguy2815]

Wow, you are very picky; I'd take about every fourth one.

[@nekozabuza]

I remember when these used to be shows LIVE on TV.

[@popguy2815]

still are

[@BarrettJacksonTV]

We still are, our next auction is April 13-15 in Palm Beach! We will be on History and FYI and livestreaming on our website!

[@MaxKrumholz]

TOP GEAR from USA i got confuse

[@TheFancyCashew]

Can’t wait to hear Casey complain about this video. 😅

[@Tjimen]

My GTA V mind (thumbnail) 🤯 Didn’t known it was also real 👀

[@Bacon_94]

That's look like in GTA 5

[@kavaka0068]

Top 10 Crazy Cars Ever Made 1. Audi RS 2 Avant 2. Toyota Vitz 3. Hummer H1 4. BMW M6 5. Nissan Qashqai 6. Isuzu Faster 7. Land Rover Freelander 8. Dodge Dart (PF) 9. Toyota RAV4 EV 10. General Motors EV1

[@youtubeguy84]

We were about to get into the best cars and this guy says can we talk about the muscle cars is he alright or what 😅

[@Playstationpotato88]

Whaaaaaaaat are those

[@FirstnameLastname-fn6ik]

Where is the auction?

[@bobsoxx5008]

great commercial.

[@StaceJohnson]

Ollie, I love your analyses, but Top Gear's stereotyping of Americans gets tiring. I'm glad you got to see that there's more to American car culture than just V8 horsepower.

[@Trellzzz]

Where’s Batmobile

[@AtheistOrphan]

Gotham City.

[@kennethdrewary1094]

There is another vid on you tube which shows that batmobile being left to rot in a forest. Strange

[@moogle68]

How is it strange? It's called a "restoration", I would've thought that most people had heard about them...

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

I expected hoovie to appear

[@UnicronTGOC]

Police ordering 50 limited edition classic muscle cars just to drag race them? Your tax dollars at work. 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️

[@tdyerwestfield]

You auction these cars in the UK and half wouldn't get a bidder. I've never seen a muscle car in the UK in my life. Those basic Ford Mustangs from around 2010 is all you see.

[@moogle68]

What's your point? If the US didn't exist, then yes, most of these would be hard to sell, but they were made here in the US, soooo... in that world, then they wouldn't exist in the first place. Fortunately, the US is a real place with real people, and is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, so even in the UK these would sell well, and maybe even better due to their rarity over there, because there are plenty of very wealthy Americans that have an intense desire to own these cars. As long as there are people that value these cars somewhere in the world, there will always be smart, and resourceful people in any country you sell these [well preserved specimens] in that will recognize the opportunity to make a profit off of other people's nostalgia and/or pride in their national/cultural heritage.

[@hamzaouamrouche57]

Bat mobile 90's movie Tim Burton Batman

[@zakzeus.shuufHunaak]

Vr auction israa'eel bid for total supremacy

[@sanjaymarison5629]

one side there is a toyota the other side merchandise, we will take a look at the merchandise... Toyota Destruction

[@ricomichel]

Apparently Barrett-Jackson have enough money to buy skinhead Top Gear journalists. Not to say that mr Marriage isn't the most interesting KZbin car guy ;-)

[@grdprojekt]

What's up with Top Gear YT channel editor these days putting cyan/blue on the shadows? Teal & orange colour grading is overused and dead mate.

[@lutomson3496]

ive been to Mecum Barrett and many others and have bought cars...yawn news

[@user-fz1fu1nv4w]

껄껄껄

[@patricklawson9756]

Why do American auctioneers have to speak like that so you can't understand anything they're saying?

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

We like to talk fast here in America. Most countries can’t keep up.

[@JoshDaleyaus]

Because Americans over hype everything.

[@jep1912]

You lost me at 'American'

[@whenzezrubenlazgardajehova3022]

1

[@Salty3439]

This is so old, come on

[@whatasense7604]

first

[@MrClearme]

Batmobile Clickbait, dislike

[@slumone6458]

This guy had no idea what he's talking about

[@jeremywilson4326]

That's what I gather,,,,,,, a Dana 60 trans ? Really?

[@nastystew6942]

He has been doing this for decades so, I believe he knows a thing or two!

[@zewise1]

You clickbait with the batmobile on the thumbnail and don't even show it for a second in the video. Top gear has really gone to sh*t on YT. A 4K camera and decent editing can't fix an obvious lack of talent and direction of this platform. Hope you fix that

[@moogle68]

Actually, it *was* shown (AND *literally* audibly mentioned) in the video at 4:03, but clearly (and ironically) you seem to be as blind as a bat. Don't get mad at Top Gear just because you were too blind to see it. Besides, if you'd read the title before clicking, then you would've known that the Batmobile in the thumbnail wouldn't be the subject of the video. This video is actually fairly well done compared to some of their other videos in the last few years, which makes your baby-like tantrum over the fact that you didn't read the title all the more obvious and pathetic. If you want to see content on that Batmobile specifically, then there are multiple other videos on KZbin of that car if you can figure out how to type the words into the search bar...

[@captain_context9991]

I cant stand American auctions. That ridiculous high speed talk is childish and it hurts my mind.

[@Freddy_Confetti]

Funny you guys don’t know about it