For Bring a Trailer, zero to 100,000 took lower than 10 years. That’s impressively quick for the location to rework from a spot to seek out cool labeled advertisements to a web-based public sale platform the place you should buy nearly any car. Especially obscure and funky rides.
The very first listings on Bring a Trailer had been a 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302, a 1990 BMW M3, and a race-used 1964 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT. The first 4×4 got here to BaT a month later, when a super-cool and very authentic 1964 Nissan Patrol crossed the block.
10 Best 4x4s Ever Listed on Bring a Trailer
Since these early days, the listings have saved getting extra fascinating, with practically 16,000 vans and 4x4s being auctioned. We wished to indicate you one of the best, however how do you outline that?
The coolest, priciest, and most seen? All three have their upsides and disadvantages. So as an alternative, we’re mixing collectively all three. Hey, it’s our record, in spite of everything.
Bring a Trailer: Most Expensive 4x4s
1949 Dodge Power Wagon 4-Door
The six high listings and a lot of the high 10 are Mercedes-Benz G-Class fashions of 1 particular type or one other. So let’s skip previous them for now to this one. The coolest and meanest trying Power Wagon we’ve ever seen was constructed by Desert Power Wagons in Scottsdale, Ariz. The prolonged cab is customized and there’s a beefed-up 5.9L Cummins diesel beneath the lengthy and louvered hood. The cab has been modified with components from a Cadillac CTS, amongst different sources. It offered for $405,000 in 2021.
1968 Ford Bronco 4-Door
No, there was by no means a four-door manufacturing facility Bronco within the Nineteen Sixties. The Bronc wouldn’t get extra doorways till 2021. This one obtained its doorways from Maxlider Brothers Customs in 2018. There’s an extended physique and a stretched body, and beneath the hood lives a supercharged 5.0L Ford Coyote V8. The remainder of the driveline has been modernized, together with the suspension. And whereas this $300,000 Bronco has 4 doorways, it truly has three rows of seats — making it higher than any minivan ever.
Ringbrothers 1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer
Next up is a 1972 K5 Blazer constructed by Ringbrothers in 2019. This one was fully restored with goodies like a carbon fiber hood, GM ZZ430 V8, and tons extra. The inside work is beautiful and the truck offered for $300,000.
Bring a Trailer: Highest Bid 4×4
2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 Brabus
The costliest 4×4 ever offered on the location was truly a 6×6 (hey, I mentioned it was our record!). A really modified Brabus G-Class 6×6 monster that offered for $1.17 million again in May of final yr. We’re unsure how a lot off-roading this monster may truly do, however irrespective of how far down the path you go, everybody goes to see you.
Bring a Trailer: Most Popular 4x4s
Enough of the costly ones already, listed here are the 4×4 automobiles which have been the most well-liked, which implies probably the most seen.
Supercharged Bronco-Style Ford F-150 SVT Raptor
I do not know what that is. Other than superior, that’s. It began with a 1979 Ford Bronco and a 2011 F-150 Raptor because the donors and was constructed by Sweet Brothers Restomods. It’s a four-door with an open rear, however it’s not fairly a pickup. And that’s as a result of the mattress is open to the cab, identical to it could have been in a Bronco. The engine is a supercharged 6.2L V8, the inside is Raptor, however the physique is nothing that Ford ever constructed. It’s simply wow.
1994 Toyota Land Cruiser
It’s a bone-stock 1994 Toyota Land Cruiser. Why is that this some of the standard 4x4s ever listed on the location? Because on the time of the sale it solely had 1,005 miles on the odometer. That’s proper, it’s the closest anybody has been to a brand-new 1994 Land Cruiser since 1995. With lovely darkish inexperienced metallic paint simply ready to be taken out into the grime.
1979 International Harvester Super Scout II
This 1979 International Harvester Super Scout II was modified by the Midas Van Conversion Company means again when it was new. That signifies that whereas the paint and graphics had been refreshed in 2014, that is what it appeared like again within the day. Period right, because it had been. The blue graphics are gorgeous, even when the not the identical blue as, nicely, one thing else.
1985 Toyota Pickup
Is a 1974 Ford C-750 cab with an identical motorhome trailer and customized snowmobiles a 4×4? Ok, it’s most likely not, even on our record. But this one undoubtedly is. It’s a 1985 Toyota pickup that has been remodeled into an final Eighties icon. A near-perfect copy of the Marty McFly truck from Back to the Future. A light carry, a great deal of KC lights, and black paint with black tubular bumpers. It’s excellent.
Bring a Trailer: Most Extreme 4x4s
Bring a Trailer despatched us a listing of the 4x4s it thinks had been probably the most excessive. And we picked our two favorites from that record.
2013 Toyota Tundra CrewMax
Want your individual Mad Max apocalypse journey rig? That’s precisely what this Tundra promised. The Toyota has a 7-inch suspension carry and a 3-inch physique carry for starters. Then it has air suspension, FOX shocks, a 17,500-pound capability winch, roof racks, a snorkel, and a 46-gallon further gasoline tank. Then there are all of the beauty modifications that make this simply the correct quantity of excessive.
2021 EarthCruiser FX
We thought this EarthCruiser was so cool that we coated it when it was listed earlier this yr. The overlander begins with a Mitsubishi Fuso Canter chassis with a low-range switch case and diesel engine. Then the EarthCruiser field was fitted with a heater, AC, water filtration, and nearly the whole lot you want to go tenting nearly wherever you’d wish to go.