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 year it is F50s, an Enzo, a Daytona SP3, and an electric four-door that did not exist three months ago.

"The weather report on the market is, it’s just ripping hot," McKeel Hagerty, CEO of the classic-car insurer, told Robb Report during the week, adding that he expects a record year. Barrett-Jackson chairman Craig Jackson put the same shift more plainly: "A lot of our top sales are modern supercars. The generational change is definitely happening."

We covered the week house by house in our full Monterey 2026 auction results breakdown. Here is the same week told car by car, from ten to one.

10. 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO — $11,555,000 (RM Sotheby's)

Ferrari built the 288 GTO to go Group B rallying. Group B evaporated. What was left was a homologation special with no job to do, which turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to it.

The Pininfarina-shaped coupe used a 2.8-liter twin-turbo V8 making 400 horsepower and 366 lb-ft, good for zero to 60 in 4.8 seconds and 189 mph, which made it the fastest road car in the world when it launched. Ferrari planned 200 examples and built 272 because the checkbooks kept arriving.

Chassis 54789 spent most of its life in German collections, came to the United States in 2021, and received a mechanical restoration. It crossed the block showing roughly 958 miles. Low-mileage 288 GTOs have been climbing for years — we tracked another homologation-status car with elite provenance earlier this year.

9. 2003 Ferrari Enzo — $12,100,000 (Mecum)

Three Enzos sold at Monterey this year. This was the expensive one.

The Enzo arrived in 2002, the year Ferrari swept both Formula 1 championships, and it wore that pedigree openly: carbon-fiber and aluminum structure, a 660-horsepower 6.0-liter V12, a six-speed paddle-shift gearbox, Brembo carbon-ceramic brakes. Zero to 62 in 3.65 seconds, just under 217 mph flat out.

The number that mattered to bidders was on the odometer: 595 miles. Mecum needed a marquee lot after a soft midweek, and it got one.

8. 1995 Ferrari F50 — $12,105,000 (RM Sotheby's)

Built to mark Ferrari's 50th anniversary and released two years early, the F50 is the most literal Formula 1 translation Maranello ever sold to the public: carbon monocoque, pushrod suspension, ground-effect aero, and a 4.7-liter V12 making 520 horsepower bolted directly to the tub as a stressed member. Dry weight was 2,711 pounds. Zero to 62 took 3.87 seconds and it ran out at 202 mph.

This one is the ex-Mike Tyson car we previewed before the sale, one of just 55 built for U.S. export and carrying Ferrari Classiche certification. Celebrity provenance usually gets discounted by serious collectors. Not this time.

7. 1996 Ferrari F50 — $14,575,000 (Mecum)

Mecum's own F50 beat RM's by two and a half million dollars, and it was the house's top lot of the week. Credit the color. This is one of only 31 of the 349 F50s finished in Giallo Modena.

Delivered new to Switzerland and later imported to the U.S., it retains its original engine, gearbox, and bodywork, and showed 7,253 kilometers (4,506 miles). The consignment also included the bespoke luggage set and a size 7.5 pair of factory F50 driving boots. At $14.575 million, the boots were the bargain.

6. 2023 Ferrari Daytona SP3 — $17,825,000 (RM Sotheby's)

Here is the number that should make every Icona-series speculator sit up. The Daytona SP3 listed at roughly $2.2 million new in 2023. Three years and 227 miles later, this one brought $17.825 million.

Limited to 600 cars and named for Ferrari's 1-2-3 sweep at the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, the SP3 carries an 829-horsepower 6.5-liter V12 — the most powerful naturally aspirated production engine Ferrari has ever built — with a 9,500-rpm redline, 514 lb-ft, a 2.85-second run to 62 mph, and 211 mph on top. Two owners, a long list of factory options, and almost no use. SP3 values have been climbing all year; one headlined a Lake Como sale back in April.

5. 1963 Ferrari 250 P Spider — $18,705,000 (Gooding Christie's)

Enzo Ferrari resisted mid-engine race cars for years. The 250 P is the car that ended the argument.

Engineered largely by Mauro Forghieri, designed by Pininfarina, and bodied by Carrozzeria Fantuzzi, chassis 0810 was the first one built. It debuted statically at Monza, then raced at the 12 Hours of Sebring, where Lorenzo Bandini, Nino Vaccarella, and Willy Mairesse brought it home second behind the only other 250 P entered. It finished third at Le Mans later that year.

It then went to Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team and won the Canadian Grand Prix outright at Mosport. The seller had owned and maintained it for 38 years.

4. 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport — $18,705,000 (RM Sotheby's)

Tied to the dollar with the 250 P, and arguably the more remarkable result. This is a Corvette.

Zora Arkus-Duntov built the Grand Sport to make the Corvette a genuine threat to the Shelby Cobra, stripping roughly 1,300 pounds out of a production car to land near 1,900 pounds and dropping in a 377-cubic-inch V8. General Motors' own management was reportedly surprised it existed. Only five were made.

Chassis 003 finished second in class at the 1963 Nassau Trophy and second in class again at the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring with A.J. Foyt and John Cannon driving. The most recent owner kept it for 23 years and commissioned a four-year restoration that RM described as running well beyond 4,000 labor hours and approaching $1 million in cost.

3. 1996 McLaren F1 GTR — $34,655,000 (RM Sotheby's)

While Gordon Murray was across town debuting the new S1 from Gordon Murray Special Vehicles, one of his old ones was rewriting the McLaren price ladder.

RM called this the first 1996-specification F1 GTR built, and one of only two Short-Tail "XP" prototypes ever made — the other being the F1 that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright in 1995. Its "96 GTR" livery was designed by Murray himself, and it spent years in the collection of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. We previewed the car when it was announced.

It landed just under its $35 million-plus estimate, and it still anchored RM Sotheby's record $380 million Monterey weekend.

2. 2026 Ferrari Luce "Tailor Made" — $40,000,000 (RM Sotheby's)

Ferrari revealed its first fully electric car in May and spent three months absorbing abuse for it. Then chassis 0 sold for $40 million, with all proceeds going to the nonprofit Ferrari Foundation for education.

The car is a 1,035-horsepower four-door finished by Tailor Made in Madreperla Semi-Gloss over a Perla Le Mans interior. "Ferrari has never been defined by what powers it," executive chairman John Elkann said at the reveal. "It has always been defined by what it makes you feel."

A charity lot is not a market comp, and nobody should pretend otherwise. It is still the second-most expensive car sold at Monterey this year. Our full report on the three auction records the Luce set at once has the details.

1. 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe — $42,905,000 (Gooding Christie's)

Carroll Shelby wanted a Ferrari killer aimed squarely at the 250 GTO. Peter Brock drew it. In 1964 the Cobra Daytona Coupe started collecting scalps.

Chassis CSX2300 was the third of six built, and it was central to Shelby winning the FIA World Manufacturers' Championship in 1965 — the first and still the only time an American constructor has taken that title. It later raced in Japan, won twice outright, served a stretch as a road car, and then belonged to Carroll Shelby personally for 23 years. Four owners followed, along with appearances at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races and the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Gooding Christie's estimated "in excess of $25 million." It hammered at $42.905 million, making it the most valuable American car ever sold at auction.

What the List Actually Says

Two things, and they point in the same direction.

First, the very top of the market is not softening. The cars that sold for enormous money were singular: first-built chassis, championship-winning race cars, five-and-six-car production runs. Buyers paid without hesitation for objects that will never be offered again.

Second, the definition of a blue-chip collector car has moved forward roughly forty years. An Enzo, two F50s, a three-year-old Daytona SP3, and a brand-new EV all cleared eight figures in the same week. The prewar and 1930s material that used to fill this list did not just get outnumbered — a good deal of it sold soft or failed to sell at all.

Broad Arrow saw the same pattern at its first Quail sale, which delivered $97.4 million and nine world records. And the buyers driving it are increasingly the ones who grew up bidding online — a shift we unpacked in how digital platforms rewired the auction business.

If Hagerty is right that 2026 becomes a record year, Monterey was not the peak. It was the proof.