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$58k for the M7 on BaT.  I'm still not at all shocked or mystified by this:

Low mile (rare) white/caramel (extra rare) supercharged S62 swap (megabucks, awesome, makes the car 1 of ~1 in a very desirable way) top shelf build.  Even has iDrive infotainment installed for retrofuture factory finish (admittedly not sure if this is a bonus but you know it got somebody's rocks off).

Add all that up and a vehicle such as this was going to cost some monies. More if you built it from scratch.  You get fractions on the dollar back if you sell after a build, yeah, but you're also on crack if you dilute a build like this to thinking "this car has 4 doors and a v8 you can get a cheaper CTS-V at Carmax why buy this" because they're the same thing, right?  Especially to modern-classic BMW fans?

What I find funny is that we don't give two shits if a bonafide classic car like a '63 Corvette or an old Porsche sells for lots of money, b/c we already accept that they are sought-after items with a large pool of buyers vying for limited examples.

But if a car is....I dunno, new enough? And has a very top shelf, high quality, performance & aesthetic build done to it, it's crackpipe for similar money as the above classic (even though they're much better & usable cars and can be just as cool & even more unique) because all of a sudden we start comparing it to xyz new or other car.

This one totally stands on its own as worth the outlay in my mind.

I get that there's an element of enthusiast crack pipe here.  But the fact that there was rust, paint chips, some stuff didn't work (sunroof) to me says that there are probably other little things (or possibly big things) that the previous owner either let slide or missed entirely in the build.  If it was a full on restomod with all of the swaps done and everything was literally perfect on the car I could maybe see close to $60k.  It shouldn't be sugar coated though, someone just paid an extremely outlandish amount of money for another guy's project car (albeit a well done one).