Young Collectors Are Driving Up Prices of Modern Supercars – Here’s Why

In 2023, the 10 most valuable cars sold at the Monterey Car Week auctions dated, on average, from 1950. A year later, their average was 1968. Last year it was 1984, meaning that the top 10 had become 34 years younger in just 36 months. The effect was even more marked among last year’s top five: four were from the 1990s onwards and two of them – including the top seller, the $26m 2025 Ferrari Daytona SP3 sold for charity – were from the 2020s.

Our notion of what constitutes a blue-chip collector car is changing rapidly. The best auctions are now awash with cars that are plainly neither ‘vintage’ nor ‘classic’ and are o...