The Australian collector car market, measured.
Across all collector cars, prices are up 2.6 per cent on 2025 and 15.8 per cent below the 2022 high. Japanese performance is up 4.0 per cent on 2025, European performance up 9.7 and supercars and exotics down 11.7.
- All collector cars
- Japanese performance
- European performance
- Supercars and exotics
Point at the chart, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to read every line in a year.
- On 2025
- +4.0%
- High, 2022
- 119.3
- Behind it
- 41 models, 221 sales
- On 2025
- +9.7%
- High, 2022
- 110.6
- Behind it
- 18 models, 124 sales
- Drawn from
- 2022, the first year with 10
- On 2025
- −11.7%
- High, 2024
- 129.1
- Behind it
- 19 models, 66 sales
- Drawn from
- 2024, the first year with 10
Classic muscle (53 recorded sales since 2018) and modern Australian performance (27 recorded sales since 2018) have too few of the same models selling twice to carry a line of their own yet. Their values use the line for all collector cars.
A run of results on one side of the figures is the first sign that a value, or a whole segment, needs to move. Each figure is what the valuation gives that car today from the sale’s own description, with the sale itself left out.
Each dot is one sale. The shaded band is within ten per cent of the figure.
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Values with the sales under them, the Australian sales ledger, the index itself, and listing reports for teams. What fits is agreed with each business.
CarQuant for business| Line | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All collector cars | 116.629 sales | 118.852 sales | 103.267 sales | 103.482 sales | 97.5106 sales | 100.093 sales |
| Japanese performance | 113.619 sales | 119.325 sales | 94.434 sales | 103.344 sales | 96.249 sales | 100.050 sales |
| European performance | too few | 110.618 sales | 108.522 sales | 95.720 sales | 91.235 sales | 100.020 sales |
| Supercars and exotics | too few | too few | too few | 129.113 sales | 113.219 sales | 100.018 sales |
Each line is the price of the same car in each year, set against this year at 100. A reading of 120 means a car that sells for $100,000 today made about $120,000 that year. The current year is the year to date.
The same cars, year against year. Every counted sale with an odometer reading is put on its own model’s distance curve. Price is then fitted as a model effect and a year effect: the model effect takes out which car it was, so what is left in each year is the market. Only models with two or more sales inform a line.
Only real sales, and enough of them. Asking prices, passed-in lots and withdrawn lots are never counted, and a year is drawn only when 10 or more sales stand behind it.
Tested before the valuations use it. This page refits on every result. The valuations price on the version fitted in September 2026, which sits within 9 points of today's fit. On 9 October 2026 both were tested against every sale since 2021, and today's fit predicted them less closely, even on the sales it was fitted to. The valuations keep the September version until a refit does better, and lean on a segment's own line halfway for Japanese performance and European performance, and not at all yet for supercars and exotics.
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