The collector’s intelligence platform
Pricing the
unpriceable
A private home for the cars the market never forgets — documented provenance, public market spectra and the HICON Price, from the manufacturer down to the individual chassis.
- Houses covered
- 51
- from Maranello to Ängelholm
- Models on file
- 212
- collectible-grade, curated
- Auction lots observed
- 40,882
- observed auctions, 2003–2026
- Top recorded result
- $142M
- Ferrari 250 GTO · Bonhams 2014
The master index
The most valuable models on earth
Not a list of record hammers — a ranking of what each model is worth in total, every car counted. It is how HICONIUM decides which files to open first.
Units × average value = model market cap. From the HICONIUM master list; every figure indicative, pending full research. The two lenses disagree on purpose — the most valuable model on earth is not the most expensive car.
№ 01 · The reference file
Ferrari F40
The record
In public, since 1989
Beneath every HICON Price sits the ledger that earns it. For the reference file alone: thirty-seven years of documented results, from the bubble of 1989 to this January’s record — and a census of every chassis built.
Ferrari F40 · documented results
As recorded
- 2026F40 · 87568Mecum Indy$5.17M
- 2026F40 · 84105Broad Arrow Villa d'Este€2.93M
- 2026F40 1989 · 83620 (1 799 km)RM Sotheby's Monaco€4.34M
- 2026F40 · 87219Broad Arrow Amelia Island$3.8M
- 2026F40 1992RM Sotheby's Miami$5.23M
- 2026F40 1992 · 91211 (865 mi)Mecum Kissimmee$5.83M
- 2026F40 1992 · 93607 (458 mi)Mecum Kissimmee — Road-car record$6.6M
- 2025F40 · 90667Bonhams Zoute€2.65M
- 2025F40 1989 · 83845 (Swiss)RM Sotheby's ZürichCHF 2.96M
25 results on file, 1989 to 2026 · some bubble-era figures indicative
The full ledger, in the file1’311 built. Fewer remain.
One dot per car. The dark ones are the crashes, the fires, the parts donors — the reason a documented survivor is never just another F40.
1’270 on file41 believed lost · indicative, pending the census
The instruments
One file per car. Three instruments per file
The same readings for a $52M GTO and a good F40: what it is, what it’s worth, and what it would take to move it.
- 1990Delivery — Maranellofiled
- 1997Engine-out service · stamp №14filed
- 2019Ownership transfer · notarisedfiled
- 2026Condition report · inspectionnew
Know what you own.
The digital garage — every document, every stamp, every owner, bound to the chassis for good. Provenance, kept the way it should have been from day one.
Understand what it’s worth.
A continuously read valuation built from documented sales, condition and provenance — with its confidence interval, never a guess. The range is public; the number is for members.
Nothing moves until you decide
Preserve why it matters.
Discreet offers on cars that are not for sale. Nothing moves until you decide; the circle stays small on purpose.
Passion / Portfolio
Two ways to look at the same car
Both are true. One is the machine — the sound, the story, the poster on a bedroom wall. The other is the position — the band, the depth, the documented results beneath it. HICONIUM keeps both readings on one file.
Bands indicative, EUR, for good honest examples. The range is public; the number is for members.
The procession
Each manufacturer, its crown
One model per manufacturer — the dearest on file, each a door into the catalogue behind it.
The catalogue
Twenty-three manufacturers, one standard
Curated to collectible grade — halo supercars, limited series, vintage blue-chips and the one-offs above them. Each house keeps its catalogue; each model, its file.
The thesis
The market for things that cannot easily be priced is the largest market without a price.
The most valuable cars on earth change hands quietly, on a handshake, for numbers nobody says out loud. That is not discretion; it is a market with the lights off. HICONIUM turns the lights on — with prices that can be defended, files that can be read, and a circle that stays small on purpose.
Cars first · then yachts, jets, watches, vineyards, design
The Journal
Written to the standard of the machines
Chassis dossiers to magazine standard; auction debriefs within forty-eight hours of Monterey, Rétromobile and Villa d’Este; studies of the one-percent details that move value.
Filed next
The debrief
August 2026
Monterey, in Forty-Eight Hours
Every result that matters from Pebble Beach week, read against the files before the tents come down.
The one-percent details
In preparation
First Paint
Tool rolls, window stickers, the weave beneath the lacquer — a study of the smallest things the market pays for.
Ferrari
In preparation
Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres
Chassis 84036 has travelled less than its own delivery drive. On the strange economics of the unused car.
The Founding Garage
The circle stays small on purpose.
HICONIUM opens to the public at The Quail, Carmel — August 13, 2026. Membership stays by invitation: collectors, dealers and specialists building the reference for cars worth keeping. Founding Garages file their cars first.
Venue
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering
Coordinates
Carmel, California · 36.55° N · 121.84° W
Doors open in
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