Las Vegas Concours 2025: Top 10

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These are my Top 10 cars that were on display at the Las Vegas Concours at the Wynn in 2025.

10 – Porsche 962C

The 962 is a legendary Group C endurance racer. This one in the iconic Jagermeister livery was raced between 1988 and 1990 by British driver Tim Lee-Davey.

9 – Lamborghini Miura SV

Finished in a very unusual white over gold. This beautiful example of a Miura really caught my attention.

8 – MG PB Airline Coupe.

Not the first Airline Coupe to feature on this blog. I love these little art-deco styled coupes.

One of 526 PB coupes and one of only 14 with this Airline body by Carbodies.

7 – Packard Caribbean.

A beautiful example of 1950s American styling finished in this lovely white into green colourway. A truly fantastic car!

6 – Jaguar D-Type

This D-Type was originally raced at LeMans before being bought by Jack Douglas (English actor – most notably in the Carry On series of films.) He raced the car extensively around the West Coast of the United States and Texas.

5 – Bugatti Centodieci

Bugatti’s Centodieci was a run of 10 cars built to celebrate Bugatti’s 110th anniversary. It draws a lot of inspiration from the EB110 (in interesting car in itself.)

This one was in the livery of the EB110LM that was raced at the 1994 24 Hours of LeMans by Alain Cudini, Eric Helary and Jean-Christophe Boulllion.

It’s a really nicely done modern tribute of a lesser celebrated bit of Bugatti’s history.

4 – Nissan Skyline (R33) NISMO 400R

The 400R is a super-limited production (44 units allegedly, we’ll get more onto that in a second) R33 GTR that has been completely reworked by Nissan Motorsport (NISMO).

Interestingly, of the 44 cars supposedly produced only 41 have been documented. The first car built (car 0) is owned by Nissan. Cars 1 through 40 are known to be in private collections, but cars 41 to 44 have vanished off of the face of the planet.

The list of alterations NISMO made the R33 to create the 400R is enormous. It wasn’t simply a case of throwing the NISMO catalogue at a production car though, a lot of the 400R is bespoke. This includes the engine – the RB-X – which is pretty much a recreation of the engine used in the R33 that Nissan raced at LeMans.

3 – Auburn 12 Boattail Speedster

I’m afraid I don’t have a tremendous amount of information about this car. The colours and art-deco styling are exquisite! I particularly love the unusual headlamps.

2 – Oldsmobile Aerotech LT

Built between 1987 and 1992, Aerotech was a series of highspeed experimental cars designed to showcase the potential of Oldsmobiles new Quad 4 engine (four cylinders, four valves per cylinder with dual overhead camshafts.)

The engined used were purpose built race engines rather than the units an Oldsmobile customer would find in his or her road car, the principle between the two was the same – 2.0litre four cylinder with four valves per cylinder mounted to dual overhead cam shafts. Once turbocharged the engine in this example, the LT, made over 1000hp.

The design was heavily inspired by Porsche’s 917 LeMans car. The Porsche had a long tail and short tailed variant for different tracks as did the Oldsmobile.

As with the Porsche, I personally preferred the long tailed variant of the Oldsmobile. I really like the long flowing shape.

This car averaged 267.399mph over a flying mile on August 27th 1987.

1 – Lamborghini Veneno

12 Venenos were produced in total (9 roadsters and 3 coupes like this one) between 2013 and 2014 to celebrate Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary.

It’s based on the Aventador platform but has this mad LeMans Prototype inspired body. Like many other Lamborghinis of the late 2000s and early 2010s it also really reminds me of a fighter jet. It’s such a cool looking thing!

When new they were $4,000,000 but last month one of the three coupes went onto the market for $16,900,000. Not a bad investment over 12-13 years! (https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/2014/lamborghini/veneno/386388)

(Unfortunately the car being sold isn’t the one that was at the show. As there are so few I had to triple check!)