The biggest collector car sales of 2026 so far

Monterey Car Week in August set the pace for 2026. Hagerty counted more than $755 million in sales across the week’s auctions, a record. That compares with $432.8 million in 2025. Of 1,124 cars offered, 853 sold, a sell-through rate of 76 percent.

Seven of the ten biggest prices on our list came from that one week in California.

The list

These are the top results of 2026 we could confirm with two sources. Results are from Monterey Car Week in August unless marked.

1. Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, 1964 (Gooding Christie’s): $42,905,000
2. Ferrari Luce, Tailor Made: $40,000,000 (charity lot)
3. Ferrari 250 GTO, white (Mecum Kissimmee, January): about $38,500,000, a reported sale
4. McLaren F1, 1996, a GTR prototype that was road registered: $34,655,000
5. Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport: $18,705,000
6. Ferrari 250 P: $18,705,000
7. Ferrari Enzo (Mecum Kissimmee, January): $17,875,000
8. Ferrari SP3: $17,825,000
9. Ferrari F50: $14,575,000
10. Ferrari F50 (Mecum Kissimmee, January): $12,210,000

Just outside the top ten are a 1995 F50 at RM Sotheby’s Monterey ($12,105,000) and a Monterey Enzo ($12,100,000), per Hagerty. Other big sales this year may belong on this list. We only include results we could check.

One note on the Ferrari Luce. It was sold for charity, so its price says more about the cause than about the market.

Racing history at the top, modern Ferraris below

The very top still leans on racing history. The Cobra Daytona Coupe is a race car, and the McLaren F1 was built as a prototype for the GTR race car, though Top Gear says it never raced. Gooding Christie’s says no American car has sold for more at auction. But much of the rest of the list is Ferraris built from the 1990s on: the F50, Enzo and SP3.

Hagerty found that modern supercars made up more than half of sales at Monterey. Broad Arrow saw something similar at Zoute in October, where a LaFerrari set a Belgian record.

Two Enzos, two prices

The Enzo shows how much one car’s story matters. In January, a 2003 Enzo in Giallo Modena with 649 miles, from the Bachman Collection, sold for $17,875,000 at Mecum’s Kissimmee sale. That set a record for the model.

In August, a different Enzo made $12,100,000 at Monterey. Same model, a gap of almost $5.8 million. Color, mileage, history and the room on the day all play a part.

How to read these numbers

Auction prices usually include the buyer’s premium, a fee the buyer pays on top of the winning bid. That is true of the figures here. Our guide to how auction prices work explains the parts of a sale price.

We will update this list as the year goes on.

Top photo: Alexander Migl via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.