What classic cars sell for
Newest model pages
By marque
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Austin-Healey Median £31,314 -
Ford Median £10,500 -
Jaguar Median £21,514 · 2 model pages -
Jensen Median £22,400 -
Land Rover Median £19,554 · 1 model page -
Lotus Median £21,848 -
MG Median £10,736 · 1 model page -
Mini Median £10,000 -
Reliant Median £3,500 -
Rootes Group Median £11,200 -
Triumph Median £12,098 -
Vauxhall Median £6,344
These pages record what British classics actually sell for, not what they are advertised at. Every figure comes from a sold result at a public auction, 47,023 of them across the marques above, going back to 1988 and updated to 10 August 2026. An asking price is a hope; a hammer price is a fact, and enough of them together show where a model's market really sits, which cars carry a premium and which way prices have been moving once inflation is taken out.
The marque pages give the overall picture and the busiest models; each model page breaks the figures down by variant and by year, and explains what moves the price of that particular car. None of it is a valuation. A concours car and a project both sit inside the ranges shown, and condition, history and specification move any one car well outside them.
How to read these figures
- Sold prices, not valuations
- Every number is a hammer price (or an online sale's closing price) for a car that actually changed hands. Unsold lots and withdrawn cars are not counted. Nothing here says what a particular car is worth; it says what cars like it have made.
- The median and the usual range
- The median is the middle sale: half the cars made more, half made less. The usual range is the middle half of all sales, which leaves out the project at the bottom and the concours car at the top. Between them they describe the ordinary market far better than an average, which a single record result would drag upward.
- Today's money
- Where a model has a long run of sales, the year-by-year chart restates each year in recent money using the ONS CPIH index, so a car that made £10,000 in 2005 is compared fairly with one that made £15,000 last year. A line that looks flat in real terms has only kept pace with inflation.
- How much weight the figures bear
- Each model page labels its evidence. Hundreds of sales and a dozen or more a year give a firm median; a few dozen give a reasonable range; fewer than that is a sketch, and any single result says more about that car than about the market.
Valuing your own car
Start from the model page's usual range, then place the car within it honestly. Condition does most of the work: structural rust, tired mechanicals and poor repairs push a car toward the bottom of the range or below it, while a sound, original example with a long history file sits in the upper half. Specification and rarity matter only when buyers care about them; a scarce variant nobody wants is still a hard sale. Then look at the recent sales on the page, which show what comparable cars made in the last few months, and remember that an auction result reflects the mood of the room on the day, and may or may not include the buyer's premium depending on the sale. If you are agreeing a value with an insurer, the upper half of the usual range is the sensible starting point for a good car; if you are selling, the median is a more realistic expectation than the record.