Finance:Bring a Trailer

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Short description: Automotive website and auction house for classic cars
Bring a Trailer
Type of site
Automotive, auction
Available inEnglish
OwnerHearst Communications
Websitebringatrailer.com
Current statusOnline

Bring a Trailer is an automotive website and auction house for classic cars.[1][2][3] Hearst acquired the website in 2020.[4]

References

  1. Callaway, Sue (October 17, 2019). "Driven: For collectors of classic used cars, Bring a Trailer is a market disruptor". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2019-10-17/driven-buying-used-car-bringatrailer. "Bring a Trailer quietly stepped into the online auction space in 2014 with three auctions a week (it now offers 275). In a few short years, the startup has successfully disrupted a crowded space with a solution no one had thought they needed — and that others want to copy." 
  2. Yeager, Robert C. (March 5, 2020). "A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/business/bring-a-trailer-classic-car-auctions.html. "Bring a Trailer has 100,000 registered bidders and listed 11,000 cars in a banner 2019, while the traditional auction market shows signs of cooling." 
  3. Cohen, Ben (March 9, 2023). "How One Guy's Car Blog Became a $1 Billion Marketplace". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bring-a-trailer-car-auctions-randy-nonnenberg-fa23e131. "Bring a Trailer is where obsessives buy, sell and geek out over classic cars. The company pops open its hood after 100,000 auctions to explain why." 
  4. https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a32712976/hearst-autos-acquires-bring-a-trailer/