MGB GT values: the coupé discount, the V8 premium, and the special editions that aren't
What the MGB GT sells for at auction
In 2025 the median MGB GT sold for £5,690 across 126 sales, 6% up on 2024. In real terms, typical MGB GT prices were down about 47% over the five years to 2025, once inflation is accounted for.
| Variant | Sold | Typical range | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| B GT | 849 | £3,360 - £8,208 | £5,200 |
| B GT V8 | 106 | £9,560 - £18,262 | £14,103 |
| B GT Limited Edition | 18 | £1,854 - £6,940 | £3,656 |
| B GT Jubilee | 18 | £2,996 - £4,480 | £3,640 |
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| Year | Sold | Median | In 2025 money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 70 | £5,050 | |
| 2025 | 126 | £5,690 | £5,690 |
| 2024 | 123 | £5,376 | £5,582 |
| 2023 | 119 | £6,400 | £6,868 |
| 2022 | 125 | £5,062 | £5,797 |
| 2021 | 81 | £6,598 | £8,159 |
| 2020 | 48 | £8,480 | £10,747 |
| 2019 | 65 | £7,650 | £9,793 |
| 2018 | 56 | £5,394 | £7,022 |
| 2017 | 38 | £4,810 | £6,406 |
| 2016 | 38 | £4,172 | £5,700 |
| 2015 | 20 | £3,976 | £5,487 |
| 2014 | 12 | £3,938 | £5,456 |
| 2013 | 12 | £5,118 | £7,193 |
| 2012 | 12 | £4,480 | £6,440 |
| 2011 | 7 | £4,830 | £7,121 |
| 2010 | 5 | £4,485 | £6,869 |
| 2008 | 5 | £3,375 | £5,403 |
| 2006 | 8 | £1,356 | £2,299 |
| 2005 | 12 | £2,925 | £5,084 |
| 2004 | 6 | £3,712 | £6,585 |
- £6,816B GT
- £3,552B GT
- £2,663B GT
- £8,250B GT V8
- £12,700B GT V8
Strong evidence. 992 recorded sales and a dozen or more a year: the median and the range are well founded. Based on 992 sold results from public classic car auctions (2003 to 10 August 2026). Sold prices, not asking prices, and not a valuation: condition, history and specification vary from car to car. Inflation-adjusted figures use the ONS CPIH index, in 2025 money.
The GT is the MGB most people can afford and the one the market values least, and MGB GT values show both at once: 992 recorded sales since 2003, about 115 a year lately, at a median of £5,555, with the middle half between £3,500 and £9,100. Nearly four in five of the cars offered find a buyer, a higher rate than the roadster’s, because a GT is always worth something to somebody. The spread runs from a £312 project to a £72,000 result for one exceptional car, and most of the record lies in the few thousand pounds between.
The MGB GT model guide covers the car itself, the V8 and what to check. The roadster’s figures have their own page on MGB values. This one is about the money on the coupé, and about the three things the sale rooms say that the price guides do not.
A quarter less than the roadster
The first thing is the discount. In every British sports-car market the open car commands the premium, and the GT’s median of £5,555 sits a quarter below the roadster’s £7,333. The gap holds at every level: a chrome-bumper GT of 1965 to 1974 in good usable order sits around £6,000 to £9,000 where the equivalent roadster makes £8,000 to £12,000, and the best restored GTs reach £12,000 to £16,000 where the best roadsters go past £20,000. The rubber-bumper cars of 1974 to 1980 make a third less again in the same condition, which puts a sound late GT among the cheapest classic sports cars in the country.
The discount is the reward for choosing the better car to own. The GT is stiffer, quieter and drier than the roadster, its hatchback and rear seat make it usable in a way the open car is not, and its Pininfarina roofline has aged better than most. Buyers who want an MGB to drive rather than to pose in have known this for years, and the GT’s sell-through rate, the highest in the MG record, is the result.
The V8, and the editions that carry no premium
The second thing is the V8. The factory MGB GT V8 of 1973 to 1976, with Rover’s 3.5-litre engine and fewer than 2,600 built, is the one GT that commands a real premium: 106 recorded sales at a median of £14,100, with the middle half between £9,600 and £18,300 and the best chrome-bumper cars past £20,000, nearly three times a four-cylinder GT. The engine was never offered in the roadster, so the GT V8 is the only MGB on which the coupé is the dearer car. The many four-cylinder GTs converted to V8 power sell between the two, for the quality of the conversion, and must be described as what they are.
The third thing is the special editions, and here the record contradicts the brochures. The 1975 GT Jubilee, 750 cars in British Racing Green with gold stripes for MG’s fiftieth anniversary, has a median of £3,640 across 18 sales; the pewter 1980 Limited Edition that closed GT production, £3,660. Both sit below an ordinary GT. The market has decided that a trim package on a rubber-bumper car is a rubber-bumper car, and the one exceptional result, the £72,000 paid for a Limited Edition in 2024 that tops the whole record, describes one low-mileage, museum-grade car rather than the edition.
What moves the price of a GT
Everything that moves the roadster’s, with the roof added. The sills, castle rails, floors and front chassis legs decide whether a GT is a car or a project, and because the GT’s shell is stiffer and its roof keeps the weather out, a surprising number of late cars have survived in honest, original condition where the roadsters have not. A car on a sound original shell sits in the middle of its range; a car on a Heritage shell, restored properly, at the top; a car with filler in the sills at the bottom whatever it looks like. Then the bumpers: a rubber-bumper car lowered to chrome-bumper height and fitted with chrome bumpers sells between the two, below a genuine chrome car, and the conversion should be declared.
Originality carries a modest premium, as on the roadster, and the accepted upgrades, overdrive, a five-speed gearbox, telescopic dampers, a Webasto sunroof, add usability and a little value. Colour counts for more on a GT than on the roadster, with the original period shades ahead of modern resprays. A long history file and the bills for the bodywork add; mileage, on a car that has usually been rebuilt at least once, barely registers.
Why the median has fallen
The chart shows the GT riding the same wave as the roadster a little later. The yearly median was under £5,000 through the mid-2010s, rose to £7,650 in 2019 and £8,480 in 2020, then fell back to £5,062 in 2022 and has sat between £5,400 and £6,400 since. Restated in today’s money, the fall from 2020 is nearly half.
The usual two causes apply, and the first dominates. The online auctions now sell hundreds of ordinary GTs a year that once went through a club advert, and a median built on those is lower than one built on the catalogued cars of 2019. The second is real: the affordable end of the market has softened since 2022. The good chrome-bumper cars and the V8s have held their prices; it is the ordinary rubber-bumper GT that is cheaper in real terms than it has been for a decade, and for a buyer who wants an MGB to use, that is the whole of the case.
Where GTs change hands
The GT is a British car sold in British rooms, and the online platforms now carry the bulk of it: a single week in August 2026 produced GTs at £2,660, £3,550 and £6,800 and V8s at £8,250 and £12,700, across five different sales. The best chrome-bumper cars and the genuine V8s mostly pass through the MG clubs and the specialists at prices a little above the auction range, because the buyer can see the sills. Whether a recorded price includes the buyer’s premium varies by sale, which is one more reason to read the usual range rather than any single result.
Insuring, restoring, selling
For an agreed-value policy a good chrome-bumper GT belongs around its median and a restored one in the upper half of the range; a V8 around its own median and above. On restoration the GT is the MGB’s arithmetic with a lower ceiling: a Heritage shell rebuild costs more than any four-cylinder GT is worth when finished, so the right buy is the car someone else has already restored, and the cheap project is a project for love. If you are selling, the GT sells all year where the roadster sells in spring, the median is the honest expectation for a sound car, and a photograph of the sills and the castle rails will do more than any amount of polish.
Related
The GT’s open sibling has its own figures on the MGB values page linked above. Its six-cylinder cousin, the MGC GT, sells for more; the Midget for less; and its closest rival in period, the Triumph GT6, for about the same. For how all the figures on this site are compiled, see what classic cars sell for.
