High rollers! The 35 most expensive cars sold at Monterey Car Week 2026

The Story

These are the cars that collectors splashed the most cash on at the world’s wealthiest car event.

These are the cars that collectors splashed the most cash on at the world’s wealthiest car event. Published: 19 Aug 2026 External link to Top Gear Magazine Subscription – 3 months for £62019 Bugatti Chiron Sport$3,662,500 (RM Sotheby’s).

In case you’d lost track of your Chiron versions a few special editions ago, the Sport was the more driver-focused version of the son-of-Veyron: think stiffer suspension, more responsive steering and the like. 60 or so were built, and this one’s been a California car from new, having first been bought at Bugatti of Beverly Hills (where else?) back in 2019.

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Yep, this was a new one on us too. Further evidence that it’s impossible for something to sound uncool in Italian, ‘Tuboscocca’ literally means ‘tubular chassis’, a chassis that was paired with a 2.7-litre version of the legendary Colombo V12 and clothed in a Vignale body. One of just six cars built to this spec, it was raced at events including the Targa Florio and Goodwood Nine Hours back in the day.

You know this car. It’s the one that, in modified form, became the first road-legal car to break the 300mph barrier in 2019. This is a production model, meaning it’ll only manage a measly 273mph before it runs out of puff, but if that’s a disappointment to the new owner, they can always take solace in the fact that this particular car has around $450,000 worth of optional extras. Or, put another way, an entire Ferrari Purosangue.

Another car that doesn’t really need any introduction, this is number 49 of 85 Valkyrie Spiders produced, complete with that ludicrous 11,100rpm, 1,000bhp Cosworth V12. It’s covered just 85 miles from new, and we can only hope the second owner decides to exercise that engine a bit more. And lets us listen to it.

Why It Matters

Here it is, then: not only the most expensive car at Car Week this year, but the most expensive American car ever sold at auction.

CarMotion Daily’s Take

Industry watchers will be following the follow-through, not just the headline.