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Q4 2025 Report: The Collector & Exotic Car Market
Auction-realized prices and the public-market backdrop
The collector market finished 2025 on its front foot: value rose year over year on a broad, modern-hypercar-led quarter, even as Ferrari shares fell sharply on an electric-vehicle reset, the clearest illustration of the year of the hard asset trading apart from the equity that builds it.
The headline
The correction in three numbers
$317.7M
Q4 2025 auction value
Across 5,324 sold lots, up 6% year over year and +19% like-for-like
$25.3M
Top lot: 1994 McLaren F1
At RM Sotheby's Abu Dhabi; the quarter's top lots were modern hypercars
+19%
Like-for-like value, YoY
$313.6M vs $264.6M at the houses tracked in both quarters
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 year closed strong and, unusually, modern. A 1994 McLaren F1 topped the quarter at $25.3 million at RM Sotheby's Abu Dhabi sale, leading a hypercar-driven book rather than the vintage names, and like-for-like value rose about nineteen percent to $317.7 million. RM Sotheby's alone cleared $152.6 million, roughly half the quarter, while American volume marques supplied the base. Tellingly, the saleroom and the showroom parted ways: Ferrari shares fell about twenty-four percent even as its cars held firm.
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- The full month-by-month breakdown (the fall sales through the December finale)
- Showroom vs. saleroom: the automaker backdrop in Q4 2025
- Marque analysis: where the volume and the capital actually went
- Methodology and how to cite the data
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