Barrett-Jackson opens its Palm Beach auction tonight at the South Florida Fairgrounds, running April 16 through April 18. The docket runs more than 800 vehicles and is led by a 2016 Pagani Huayra and a 2025 Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale — the kind of top-of-market supercar pairing that has made the Palm Beach calendar a fixture for Florida collectors managing appreciating automotive portfolios.
The headline lots
The Pagani Huayra is the trophy of the docket. Only 100 coupes were produced worldwide between 2012 and 2018, with the 2016 production year representing the middle of the run and the cars most desirable to specification purists. Pagani’s configurability means no two Huayras are identical; recent public sales have cleared between $2.4 million and $3.2 million at auction depending on spec, ownership history, and mileage. The example crossing the block this weekend has not been publicly documented, but Barrett-Jackson’s decision to slot it as a marquee lot signals the house expects a Palm Beach result at the high end of the Huayra range.
The 2025 Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale (Lot 751.1) is the more interesting data point for the market. With 212 actual miles, it is effectively new-condition inventory being offered 12 months after delivery to its original allocation holder. The XX Stradale is Ferrari’s track-focused evolution of the SF90 hybrid platform — twin-turbo V-8 paired with an e4WD plug-in hybrid system, eight-speed F1 dual-clutch automatic, and a 7.9 kWh lithium-ion pack. Production is capped at 799 coupes globally. The car’s early secondary-market behavior will tell collectors whether Ferrari’s current hybrid halo cars hold the kind of premium that the LaFerrari and F40 have retained — or whether the XX Stradale trades closer to the SF90 Assetto Fiorano, which has generally cleared at or near its sticker.
The supporting docket
Beneath the two marquee lots, the Palm Beach catalog reflects the range of assets that Florida collectors have been accumulating for the past three years:
- A 2021 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT Black Series Project One Edition — one of 40 Project One Black Series examples built by AMG
- A 2024 Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato, the off-road evolution of the Huracán platform that Lamborghini discontinued at the end of the 2024 model year
- A Whipple-supercharged 2021 Shelby Super Snake Speedster (Lot #710)
- A 1957 Ford Thunderbird E-Code convertible (Lot #765) — a platform that has quietly outperformed the broader American classic market over the past 24 months
- A 2020 Ferrari 488 Pista, the last naturally-aspirated-era Pista before Ferrari’s hybrid transition
- A classic 1964 Dodge Polara Custom Coupe anchoring the muscle-car segment
Barrett-Jackson is also running four charity lots during the week. The headline charity vehicle is a 2026 GM Defense Infantry Squad Vehicle-Utility (ISV-U) benefiting the Medal of Honor Foundation. A 1979 Porsche 911 SC crosses the block with 100 percent of the hammer price supporting Space Coast Honor Flight. A 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible benefits the Ellis Island Honors Society. All four charity lots sell at no reserve.
Why Palm Beach matters to the collector-car market
Palm Beach is Barrett-Jackson’s East Coast flagship and the early-spring test for what Florida collectors are willing to pay after the January sales in Scottsdale. For 2026, two forces are shaping the room. First, Florida’s concentration of wealth holders continues to pull event-driven collector assets — cars, watches, art — into the state for both display and liquidity. Second, the broader classic and supercar market spent 2024 and the first half of 2025 in a correction that cleared weaker inventory and left well-documented, low-mileage, build-slot cars with much less competition at the top.
The result is a market where the gap between a Huayra with airtight provenance and a Huayra with unclear ownership history has widened measurably. Palm Beach this weekend will price that gap in real time. Collectors managing automotive portfolios as part of broader asset strategies — which, in Palm Beach, increasingly means part of a diversified balance sheet that includes art, jewelry, and Worth Avenue real estate — treat the first weekend totals as the reference point for the rest of the year’s consignment decisions.
What to watch over the three days
Three numbers will matter by Sunday night. First, the Huayra’s clearing price against the $2.5–3.2 million range recent comparables have established. Second, the SF90 XX Stradale’s premium-or-discount against original MSRP, which will set the tone for the current Ferrari hybrid market. Third, the total sell-through rate on the supercar tier — the metric that, more than any single lot, tells the rest of the 2026 auction calendar whether the top of the market is absorbing new allocation or holding inventory.
Palm Beach’s collector base has been the most consistent buyer of high-end automotive assets in the U.S. for three consecutive years. This weekend will confirm whether that pattern is holding as the 2026 social season closes.