Monterey Car Week 2025: August 14 Highlights, Feature Auctions, and Scenic Drives

Credit: Broad Arrow Auctions

The Monterey Car Week 2025 August 14 highlights bring a mix of great events to California’s Monterey Peninsula, drawing automotive enthusiasts for a day filled with classic drives, racing heritage, and high-stakes auctions. As the week progresses, today marks the start of several key activities, including the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance and the continuation of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, alongside auctions that showcase rare and exotic vehicles.

The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance kicks off at 7 a.m., offering a free spectacle as over 150 concours entrants embark on a scenic route along 17-Mile Drive and Highway 1. This road rally demonstrates the roadworthiness of historic cars, providing onlookers with views of classics in motion before they compete at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance later in the week. Meanwhile, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca enters its second day, featuring vintage race cars on track, including Formula 1 vehicles and other historic models, from 7 a.m. onward.

German automotive excellence takes center stage at Legends of the Autobahn, a concours d’elegance from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pacific Grove Golf Links. This free event displays over 400 significant vehicles from Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, celebrating engineering and design heritage. The Mecum Monterey Auction also begins today at the Del Monte Golf Course, running through August 16, with a broadcast on MotorTrend TV, presenting a wide array of collector cars for bidding.

A major draw is the Broad Arrow Jet Center Auction at the Monterey Jet Center, where bidding continues today after an initial evening session. Among the lots under the hammer are three standout Japanese performance icons from the 1990s: a 1994 Honda NSX-R in Championship White, valued at $450,000 to $550,000; a 1999 Nissan Silvia Spec.R with its turbocharged SR20DET engine, estimated at $60,000 to $80,000; and a 1998 Subaru Impreza 22B STi in World Rally Blue, expected to fetch $300,000 to $400,000. These cars highlight the growing interest in JDM classics, joining other notables like a 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra and a 2019 McLaren Senna in generating strong interest.

Electric vehicle innovation appears at the Concours Village, where Lucid showcases the Air and Gravity models with demo drives available through August 17. For our AutoConcierge clients, today’s events underscore the value of secure storage solutions to safeguard their investments at our specialized facilities while remaining turn-key ready to enjoy at any time, allowing them to participate in Monterey Car Week without concerns over logistics or California’s increasing enforcement on out-of-state vehicle registrations.