ALT/FNDATA · Market Report
Q1 2025 Report: The Collector & Exotic Car Market
Auction-realized prices and the public-market backdrop
A resilient opening quarter built on the January Scottsdale sales: collector-car value held its level year over year and a Ferrari 250 LM led at $36.2M, even as the listed performance makers fell on a new US auto-tariff.
The headline
The correction in three numbers
$767.7M
Q1 2025 auction value
Across 8,030 sold lots, up 1% year over year (+1% like-for-like)
$36.2M
Top lot: Ferrari 250 LM
At RM Sotheby's; the quarter's apex, up from a $12.1M top a year earlier
$463M
January's share of value
60% of the quarter, from the Scottsdale season
Auction-realized prices: what collector cars actually sold for at the hammer, not asking prices. · 10M+ auction results · 100+ houses.
The read
What the data shows
The quarter's shape was Scottsdale and Italian scarcity. January alone carried roughly $463 million, about sixty percent of the $767.7 million total, as Mecum and Barrett-Jackson moved the desert volume. Above them the value concentrated in a handful of names: a 1964 Ferrari 250 LM led at $36.2 million at RM Sotheby's, and Ferrari as a marque absorbed some $110 million, more than any other. Like-for-like the market held its level, a steady open rather than a surge.
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- The full month-by-month breakdown (the January Scottsdale season and after)
- Showroom vs. saleroom: the automaker backdrop in Q1 2025
- Marque analysis: where the volume and the capital actually went
- Methodology and how to cite the data
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