12/23 Update: We have a winner!
The 10th round of this year’s Michelin and BFGoodrich tire giveaway is officially on the books. Over 100 of you took to the ballot box, and every contestant received a healthy measure of love from the beginning. But the Toyota pickup was quick to take the lead and kept it up until the end, even with the Miata nipping at its heels. Congratulations to its new owner, @Fredand5kids!
Amid rolling green pastureland west of Stuttgart rises a series of gleaming white blocks known to Porschephiles around the globe as the Weissach Development Centre. Since 1962, this has been the place where Porsche has refined their most legendary street and race cars, and pushed them to their limits. This holiday season, BaT power seller and Local Partner Wob is bringing us the Weissach Winter Wonderland Collection, a twelve-car group of Porsche’s finest bedecked in a wintry mix of colors.
Today, gathered members of the BaT community, we’re wishing you all plenty of holiday cheer. May your tanks be full, your engines firing on all cylinders, and your days spent rocking around the Christmas tree (or a 1962 Lotus Elite, if you prefer). A few housekeeping items below:
We’re coming to you with last week’s edition of the Weird and Wonderful one (business) day late, esteemed BaT readers. Even in an abbreviated work week, there were plenty of interesting vehicles to choose from. As always, the list below merely scratches the surface. So if you didn’t get those particular socks that you were quietly hoping for, then head over to our live auctions page to cheer up with some more vicarious living.
Happy Holidays to one and all! Alex, Randy, Beck, and Tyler discuss Hanukkah gifting strategies, holiday road trips in order of escalating insanity, movie-adjacent cars, wood paneling connoisseurship, ghosts of American car brands past, drift missiles, stalker Eagles, and generational headlight trauma.
The year 2025 is now in our rearview mirror. As we look back at another in a string of banner years for BaT, we want to take a moment to thank those we owe for our continued success: every member of the hard-working BaT staff and the buyers, sellers, and commenters that make up an enthusiast community that is unique the world over. This place wouldn’t be the same without any of you.
We tip our hats—not only have you officially made it through another week, but the holidays and, not to mention, another trip around the sun. If you’re needing a break from all of that travel, then may we present you with this week’s Weird and Wonderful. As always, this list is merely a snippet of goodness, so we encourage you to check out our live auctions page for more.
Update 1/5/26:
As a reminder, and as a few eagle eyes in the comments have pointed out, this holiday giveaway is just that—no contest, this time around, just a nice present for each of the winners of the cars below. Three more deserving recipients have been added, and if you’re one of the lucky ones, be on the lookout for an email from our Partnerships team this week!
BaT Community!
That was quite a flurry of activity to finish off 2025. We’re proud, and thankful, to say that 2025 represented another in a long string of great years for BaT Auctions, and the ever-expanding BaT Community of buyers, sellers, experts, Local Partners, watchers, commenters, and crazies are what continues to make it happen. As always, our goal is to offer as many people as possible the opportunity to transact in the most transparent, fair, cost-effective, and positive way possible, while optimizing for the integrity and truthfulness that leads to the best buyer and seller outcomes. That is what drives everything we do, and the BaT Team is excited to bring this to even more enthusiasts in 2026!
This week we discuss 1990s Sacramento basketball, “frame off” restorations, newly published BaT stats, an ex-Nonnenberg car live on the site, whether Zac can ever be a truck guy, the annual BaT Awards, an upcoming Meet-Up and track day, watchlist picks, Healey love, a 912 in a coffee shop, and a Thunderbird with fascinating history.