Every car you have ever driven had to survive a room full of people whose job was to say no. Too expensive, won't sell, nobody asked for this. Most ideas die there. A few don't, and the ones that don't tend to be the most interesting cars ever made.
In the latest episode of Classic Driver Market Insights, JP Rathgen looks at eleven of them, all coming up at the Humer Granner auction on 17 October at the Classic Expo in Salzburg. The list includes a Volkswagen Golf Rallye G60 built entirely to satisfy the FIA, a BMW 2002 Turbo that arrived at the worst possible moment in automotive history, and a Citroën 2CV Sahara with two engines, two gearboxes, and fuel filler necks poking out through the front doors.
There is also a Renault that Renault did not actually build, a Mercedes convertible that Mercedes will tell you does not exist, and a Tatra Type 87 that is classified as protected cultural property by the Czech state and cannot leave the country without a government export permit.
Add up the low estimates across all eleven and you arrive at around 670,000 euros. Even at the top of every estimate, the whole garage still comes in under a million.
Watch the full episode on the Classic Driver YouTube channel.
