Current market reference from completed auction sales over the last 12 months.
923 auction sales
Completed sales, not listing estimates
Updated every 15 minutes
Yesterday's auction activity available today
Nineteen sources
BaT, Cars & Bids, Mecum, Bonhams, SOMO, and more
Direct answer
The BMW 3-Series market carries a current 12-month median auction price of $13,200 across 923 tracked sales. Recent examples commonly range from $8,175 to $20,000.
Values are estimated from completed auction results. Old Cars Data does not add buyer premiums, taxes, or fees during normalization, but source-reported results may already include them. Private-party sales, dealer asking prices, and undocumented condition details are not included unless they appear in source data.
12-month snapshot
Based on sold auction results from the past 12 months.
Past 12 months
Mid market
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Sold examples
Photos from real BMW 3-Series examples that crossed the block, each tied to its completed sale.
Imagery sourced from completed auction listings
Overview
The BMW 3-Series remains a sought-after collector vehicle, blending period design with the kind of provenance auction buyers reward. Values shift with condition, mileage, originality, and documentation, so the figures here reflect the spread of real outcomes rather than a single sticker price. Use the year index below to narrow toward the examples most comparable to yours.
Model years
Each year links to comparable pricing and sales data for that model year.
Latest results
The most recent completed BMW 3-Series auctions across all tracked sources.
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Reference notes
Recent BMW 3-Series prices move with the mix of condition, mileage, and documentation crossing the auction block. Use the chart and recent results to judge the current direction from real outcomes.
Every figure is computed from completed auction results normalized into canonical make, model, year, price, and status fields.
Bring a Trailer, Cars & Bids, Hemmings, AutoHunter, Hagerty, PCAR Market, All Collector Cars, Gooding & Co, RM Sotheby's, Barrett-Jackson, Sotheby's Motorsport, Car & Classic, The Market, Broad Arrow, MB Market, Mecum Auctions, PistonHeads, Collecting Cars, and Bonhams, refreshed every 15 minutes and mapped into one consistent schema.
Year, mileage, condition, originality, service history, color, options, and provenance all move prices. Sparse markets can swing materially on a single notable sale.
A BMW 3-Series typically sells for about $13,200 at auction, with recent examples commonly ranging from $8,175 to $20,000 based on 923 sales from the last 12 months.
The market refreshes every 15 minutes.
We tracked 923 BMW 3-Series auction sales in the last 12 months.