Our review of the wonderful Salon Privé 2025

Life and work are so busy, it’s taken months for me to get this done/ finished, so apologies. We attended Salon Privé 2025 on the Wednesday, which was the 1st day of a 5 day event. We also went back to the show on the Sunday as we were showing a car on the lawn with the Drivers Union supercar club.

Salon Privé in its 20th year, pulled out all the stops and new for this year. There were two massive glass buildings that they had taken considerable time to construct. This insured that the manufacturers that were showing their cars and the visitors didn’t get wet if it were to rain, which it did intermittently on the Wednesday and at one point, there was a massive downpour.

So what did we think of Salon Privé 2025?

A great show as always. It’s a show that I would never want to miss much like the Concours of Elegance and the London Concours. With all these car shows you do get to see a lot of very rare and rarely seen exquisite cars. I certainly much preferred Salon Privé on the Wednesday than the Sunday, as it was much quieter (less people). I was informed by workers at the show that the Saturday was crazy busy. Sunday was also very busy, which is great to hear for the event organisers, but not so much if you are a visitor.

Our walk around the show

Some of our favourite cars

Check out 10 amazing cars from Salon Privé 2025 and 10 unusual and super special cars at Salon Privé 2025.

A focus for the 2025 event was the green collection. Simply this was a collection of 20 rare and highly desirable green colored cars much like in previous years where they have had the blue and red collection and more here is our video walking past all of the cars on display. Some of the cars featured were: Jaguar C-X75, Bentley Batur, Koenigsegg Jesko, Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren Senna, McLaren SLR, Ferrari Daytona SP3 and a Bugatti Veyron Centenaire. What a very cool collection of cars. Hope you enjoy the video.

The award-winning cars

Every day at Salon Privé they awarded cars, trophies and prizes. I obviously couldn’t attend every day so here is a summary of the award winners.

1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Spezial Roadster Wins Best of Show at Salon Privé 2025

THE AURIGA COLLECTION’S MASTERPIECE CROWNED CHAMPION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCOURS

A 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Special Roadster by Sindelfingen (above) was been awarded Best of Show. Shown by The Auriga Collection, the rare pre-war Roadster also received the Most Exceptional Coachwork Award, impressing judges with its sweeping long-tail design and concours pedigree. Sixty cars from 13 countries competed across 12 classes, with Anne Brockinton Lee’s Ferrari 410 Superamerica Coupe “Super Fast” Prototype named Runner-Up and People’s Choice. The result marks a fitting highlight for Salon Privé’s 20th Anniversary at Blenheim Palace.

Class Winners 2025

Class A: Pre-war Open

Winner: 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Spezial Roadster by Sindelfingen (presented by The Auriga Collection)

Honourable Mention: 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Aravis Special Cabriolet by Gangloff (presented by Tom Price)

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Class B: Pre-war Sports

Winner: 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza by Carrozzeria Touring (presented by The Auriga Collection)

Honourable Mention: 1930 Bentley 4½ Litre Supercharged by Gurney Nutting (presented Anne Brockinton Lee)

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Class C: Pre-war American Classics

Winner: 1933 Duesenberg SJ Dual Cowl Phaeton by LaGrande (presented by Tom Maoli)

Honourable Mention: 1936 Packard Twelve All-Weather Cabriolet by LeBaron (presented by Jack Boyd-Smith Jnr)

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Class D: Elegance, Grace & Luxury

Winner: Delage D8 S Sedanca Coupé by Gurney Nutting (presented by Marc Vogel)

Honorable Mention: Rolls-Royce Wraith Drophead Foursome Coupé by James Young (presented by Yohan Poonawalla)

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Class E: H.J. Mulliner Coachbuilding

Winner: 1953 Bentley R Type Continental by H.J. Mulliner (presented by Bentley Motors Heritage Collection)

Honourable Mention: 1956 Bentley S1 Drophead Coupé by H.J. Mulliner (presented by Thierry Dehaeck)

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Class F: Wind in Your Hair

Winner: 1964 Jaguar E-type Series 1 3.8 OTS (presented by Phil Kenworthy)

Honourable Mention: 1989 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volanté ‘Prince of Wales’ (presented by Private Collector)

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Class G: British GTs – From London to Lugano

Winner: 1969 Jaguar E-type Series II 2+2 Coupé (presented by Steve Evans)

Honourable Mention: 1961 Triumph Italia 2000 by Vignale (presented by Graham Andrews)

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Class H: European GTS – From Paris to Palermo

Winner: 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SC Coupé (presented by Vin Di Bona)

Honourable Mention: 1956 Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Zagato Coupé (presented by David Sydorick)

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Class I: Sports Racers

Winner: 1964 Alpine M64 (presented by Mitch McCullough)

Honourable Mention: 1952 Pegaso Z-102 Race Car (presented by Nick & Shelley Schorsch)

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Class J: Ferrari Race Cars from the 1950s

Winner: 1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta by Vignale (presented by Santiago Martinez)

Honourable Mention: 1954 Ferrari 250 Monza Barchetta by Scaglietti (presented by Giuseppe Prevosti)

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Class K: Ferrari – The Prancing Horse

Winner: 1956 Ferrari 410 Superamerica Coupé “Super Fast” Prototype by Pinin Farina (presented by Anne Brockinton Lee)

Honourable Mention: 1953 Ferrari 212 Europa Coupé by Pinin Farina (presented by Michael Korecky)

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Class L: Supercar Pin-ups of the 80s and 90s

Winner: 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO by Pininfarina (presented by Paul Hogarth)

Honourable Mention: 1988 Porsche 911 Club Sport (presented by Rob Howarth)

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Honorary Awards 2025

A NUMBER OF SPECIAL HONORARY PRIZES

In addition to the Class Awards, a number of special honorary prizes were awarded to cars and their custodians in recognition of outstanding qualities such as spirit, elegance, preservation, and public acclaim:

Spirit Award – The Margaret Bagley Trophy

1971 Mercedes-Benz 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet (presented by Marc Walter)

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Most Exceptional Coachwork

1936 Mercedes-Benz 500 K Spezial Roadster by Sindelfingen (presented by The Auriga Collection)

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Most Opulent

1939 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupé (presented by Nishant Dossa)

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Coup de Cœur – The Matt Pearce Trophy

1992 Ferrari 512 TR by Pininfarina (presented by Dyfrig Griffith)

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Best Interior

1956 Facel Vega FV2B (presented by Urs Barmettler)

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Most Elegant

1952 Ferrari 225 S Berlinetta by Vignale (presented by Daniel Sielecki)

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Preservation Award

1958 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster (presented by Dr Michael Grebe)

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Most Iconic – The George Barry Gregory Trophy

1972 BMW 3.0 CSL Works Development Car E9/R1 (presented by a Private Collector)

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Chairman’s Award

1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Spider by Scaglietti (presented by Lord Bamford)

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Duke of Marlborough Award

1949 Rolls-Royce Wraith Drophead Foursome Coupé by James Young (presented by Yohan Poonawall)

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People’s Choice

1956 Ferrari 410 Superamerica Coupé “Super Fast” Prototype by Pinin Farina (presented by Anne Brockinton Lee)

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So that’s my summary of the show. A great event, as always. Massive well done to the event organs and all involved I now look forward to Salon Prive 2026 and hopefully Salon Prive London 2026 will go ahead, we’ll have to wait and see.

We have so much more Salon Privé content and strongly. Recommend that you check it out if you love this show. You can check out our video playlist from Salon Privé here and also Salon Privé London here.

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