The 5 Most Surprising Collector Car Trends of 2026 | Market Insights - Ep 04

There's a version of the collector car story that gets told every year: the market's up, the market's down, insert obligatory Ferrari headline. Classic Driver's latest Market Insights episode makes a rather better case that in 2026, the market isn't moving in one direction at all. It's splitting. At one end sit the truly extraordinary cars, F50s, F40s, Enzos, McLaren F1s, doing things that would have seemed absurd even five years ago. At the other, a lot of very good, very lovable $100–200k enthusiast cars are simply sitting there, unloved by comparison. Monterey's headline number this year, north of $750 million, tells that story neatly: modern supercars were expected to account for 58% of sales and ended up closer to 69%. Everyone predicted the shift; nobody predicted quite how much. The takeaway, though, is refreshingly unfashionable: buy the car you can't stop thinking about, not the one you think someone else will overpay for later. Stay up to date with Classic Driver: Instagram:   / classicdriver   Facebook:   / theclassicdriver   Web: https://www.classicdriver.com Host: JP Rathgen Director of Photography: Luca Pieri Pilotti Production and Editing: Alpineracer.ch Creative Direction: Jan Baedeker Social Media Manager: Elliot Newton & Thomas Siorpaes © Classic Driver 2026 - All rights reserved #ClassicDriver #MarketInsights #carvalue #CollectorCar #classiccars #supercars