Bring a Trailer Auctions are the best way to discover, discuss, and buy classic, collector, and enthusiast vehicles.
We curate vehicles submitted by our users and craft transparent auction listings that present the vehicles as they are—without superlatives or dubious used-car-lot language. BaT’s knowledgeable community of more than 900,000 users and over 400,000 registered bidders help vet each listing so potential buyers can bid with confidence.
The BaT app now makes it easy to browse and bid on vehicles anywhere, anytime–with streamlined vehicle submission functionality coming soon for sellers.
DISCOVER AND BROWSE
Find out what’s trending, see what’s ending soon, and watch the latest bids roll in on the Discover page. Know what you’re looking for? Search and filter in the Auctions tab to narrow down hundreds of listings.
VARIETY OF VEHICLES
BaT’s curation mirrors our eclectic taste: off-roaders are mixed with track cars, domestic makes with foreign brands, motorcycles with vintage RVs, parts with projects. We even auction re-creations, kit cars, boats, and automobilia!
COMMENT THREADS
We’re known for our knowledgeable and active community of enthusiasts. Easily tag other users in the app to keep the conversation going.
TRANSPARENT BIDDING
Place bids quickly and easily, with no surprise fees. The BaT buyer fee is 5% of the final bid price on top of the winning bid, with a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $7,500. Any additional dealer fees required by the seller will be clearly stated in the listing when applicable.
SNIPING PROTECTION
Each time a bid is placed at the end of an auction, the clock is extended by two minutes–giving everyone a fair chance to place their maximum bid.
CUSTOM ALERTS AND NOTIFICATIONS
Push notifications and the Activity Feed keep you up to date on your favorite topics, so you can stay on top of the action in real time. We can let you know when a seller adds more photos to a listing, when your favorite models go live, and when you’ve been outbid, among other things. Update settings for these events, as well as emails and sounds for bids and comments, in the More tab.
NEW ENDING SOON EXPERIENCE
Now you can keep an eye on multiple auctions simultaneously as they count down in the final minutes. In the new Ending Soon section, watch the comments and bids roll in for all auctions ending in the next 24 hours.
EXPLORE RESULTS WITH INTERACTIVE CHARTS
See the big picture or focus on what matters to you. Easily find results by adjusting the bid amount, timeframe, or vehicle year, or by making a selection right on a results chart.
WATCHLIST
The watchlist is home base for all of your favorite auctions, makes, models, categories, eras, and origins–just hit the bell or star to save items. We’ll even let you know when you’ve been outbid on a watched auction so you can quickly place another bid!
SELLER TOOLS
Quickly upload photos, reply to bidders, adjust your reserve, and see stats for your live listings. Submissions and more seller features are coming to the app soon!
I love this app so much. Im looking for a first car ( bmw e36 non-M) and this app makes it so easy to find well kept, low mileage cars. From million dollar hyper cars to 100$ signed Ferrari laptops, this app has everything. Bidding is easy, smooth, and the comment section is amazing. You can also set notifications for certain models, and custom service helped within a day when my app wasn’t working correctly! Great app (very minor flaws), but all of those flaws are overturned by the good!
Frustrating to use
carrera53
Two main issues are keeping the app from being useable for me. Whenever I click on a listing and try to return to list of auctions it does not go back to where you left off and the listing you just looked at is nowhere to be found again. I have to scroll forever to find wherever I left off and give up in frustration. Another issue is while scrolling thru listings there is a slight delay to load the next batch but after a few minutes when It needs to load more it simply gives a error message “oops…” This happens 100% of the time after about 20-30 listings.
Best in class.
Evan RF
Bring a Trailer isn’t a car site… it’s a legal addiction. A black hole for willpower. It tests the sanctity of marriage, because “just looking” somehow turns into explaining to your spouse why there’s a ’91 Yellow Pearl Nissan 300ZX on the way and how “it’s to teach the kids how to drive stick.”BAT is where every justification gets upheld in the court of car-fanatic juries. A community that doesn’t just tolerate impulse buys, it cheers them on.Every scroll is a dopamine burnout, leaving tire marks on your self-control.Life’s too short to browse the world’s hottest rides on a boring app. BAT’s where your next bad financial decision starts to look like art.
This App is Broken
Nmirasola
I don’t know what is going on but when I click links to open auctions, whether it’s from a friend or via email, this app refuses to load any content at all. 404 errors for listings, 404 errors for my watch list, 404 errors clicking on vehicles on the home page. Sometimes the app kicks me back into my browser, it’s awful. Also the search function is almost completely useless, needs keywords doesn’t recognize vehicle trims, pathetic. I’ve purchased two cars on this platform and it’s a miracle. LEARN FROM YOUR COMPETITION, the BaT app is garbage.
This version introduces pull-to-refresh and performance improvements, along with additional bug fixes and stability updates.
Version 1.4.11
The developer, Bring A Trailer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Financial Info
Contact Info
User Content
Search History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Bring a Trailer Media, LLC
Size
75.9 MB
Category
Shopping
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
