Sold history · comparison

Carbon-ceramic vs steel brakes

Do carbon-ceramic brakes carry a premium?

Carbon-ceramic

Not measured. See below.

Steel

Not measured. See below.

Why there is no figure here

A steel-braked cohort would have to be built by negation — every sale without a carbon-ceramic flag — and on this archive that is not a cohort of steel-braked cars. Only a minority of sold rows carry any option flags at all, so the rest are cars whose options were never extracted, not cars without the option. The figure that comparison would produce is a measurement of our own extraction coverage wearing a brake label.

This is not the same as a thin sample, and it is worth the distinction: a thin sample fills in as the archive grows, and this does not. It needs the extractor to record that a car does not have the option, which is a different fact from not having found that it does.

The other comparisons

Drawn from 73 recorded sales. Medians are taken over the last twelve months and a cohort below 5 sales publishes no median at all — see prices for the whole archive.