The 10 Most Expensive Cars Sold at Monterey Car Week 2026
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The 10 Most Expensive Cars Sold at Monterey Car Week 2026
Monterey Car Week 2026 finished with roughly $756 million in collector cars sold, according to Hagerty, against $432.8 million over the same days in 2025. But the headline number is not the interesting part. The interesting part is the birth certificates.Of the ten most expensive cars sold across the week, seven were built in 1985 or later. A decade ago a Monterey top ten was a wall of prewar coachwork and 1960s Ferrari competition cars. This ye…
We report from the world’s most moneyed automotive event, Monterey Car Week 2026
Each year, Monterey Car Week culminates in the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance event, held on the Pacific-side greens of this ultra-exclusive northern Californian golf club. Alongside multiple new reveals and iconic classics, the event’s 75th edition saw the hammer fall on three-quarters of a billion dollars’ worth of historic metal, a new record. The 1996 McLaren F1 GTR sold for $34,655,000 at RM Sotheby's (Image credit: RM Sotheby's)The 2026 …
Impeccable lawns at Pebble Beach, hammers slamming until the end of the night and eight-digit stands that run: the Monterey Car Week 2026 has changed again. Over this week of August in California, the large auction houses awarded over 700 million dollars, or about 644 million euros, of collectible cars. A dizzying total that places the 2026 edition at the top of the event's history, according to SupercarBlondie.
In Monterey, California, the figures almost give rise to vertigo. Between 13 and 15 August 2026, five auction houses changed hands of collectible cars for a total of $747.9 million, or about €690 million, according to Hagerty's account. That's 73% more than the $432.8 million (approximately €400 million) recorded in the same period in 2025, and well above the previous record of approximately $471 million set in 2022. Yet, the volume hardly moved…
The Monterey Car Week 2026 broke records: more than 1000 cars came under the hammer in California, among them many exclusive Ferraris. But at the top of the most expensive cars there is no Italian.
758 million dollars. This is the record Monterey Car Week 2026 has just sprayed. But this figure hides something more important: that the collection car market does not redefine itself. It bifurcates. Cet article Monterey Car Week 2026 : The auction reaches a historic record of $758 million est apparu en premier sur Luxe.net : Le magazine du Luxe et du savoir-vivre.
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