These Are The Cars You Predict Will Win The 2124 Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance was this weekend, and the winner was an unrestored 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports. While it's a beautiful car, it also made history as the first car from the preservation class to win the big award. Maybe one of these days we'll see another post-war car take the whole thing, but it certainly wasn't this year.

With that in mind, on Tuesday, we decided to have a little fun with our question of the day and ask your prediction for which car will win Pebble Beach in 2124. Will we have moved on to something newer, or will the same pre-war cars keep winning even 100 years in the future? Here are the most popular answers.

The incomparable neoclassic Corvarado, a mid-1970s Corvette leaning into baroque personal luxury with custom coachwork by the reknowned Les Dunham of New Jersey. It is notable that the understated design of the first Corvarado, shown here, was chosen for the James Bond movie Live and Let Die.

Later models in the run were rendered with expressive coloring and accessories, as shown in dynamic livery below, with a sensibility designed to appeal to the ever-expanding Sansabelt set.

Suggested by: jrhmobile

After the bombs have fallen and water becomes our most coveted resource, I predict Immortan Joe's GigaHorse will make a very strong showing.

Suggested by: Hankel_Wankel

Pagani Utopia

Suggested by: AKBrian

Are you kidding? It will be all of the same cars that show up and win today! The mega-wealthy owners will just take them home and gently roll them into their vacuum-sealed clean rooms until the next big opportunity to show off their million dollar toy collections.

Reminds me of that shady guy in the Three Bodies Problem who said he would meet the incoming aliens in 400 years by putting himself in cryo-sleep and only wake up for a week or two every year to skip through time.

Suggested by: Thomas Hajicek

Probably still a 1930's era Duesenberg, Bugatti, or Mercedes-Benz.

However, since we're fantasizing, let's say they finally recover the original Bugatti Type 57SC "La Voiture Noire," a car that's said to have disappeared after WWII. It was either destroyed during the war or hidden forever in an undisclosed location.

It will be presented, pristine & unrestored, valued at over $500 million because that's where the market on hand-crafted fuel powered vehicles from the early 20th century is at.

It will be purchased as an investment by a private equity firm and thus locked away, never to be seen, yet again.

Suggested by: Aldairion

I think we will see the last manual analog cars from performance and exotic brands continue to increase in value at a faster rate than their automatic counterparts. I have been shopping for a 997.2s and the difference in price between 6MTs and automatics is astonishing.

This means cars like the 550 and 575M, E39 M5, M3, M2, R8 6MT, and of course the 997 911.

Suggested by: oddseth

Some rare Mercedes, like the 560 SEC Widebody.

Suggested by: Sucker for a '23 300C (formerly Magnum_SRT8)

I'm going to go with a vacuum sealed CTS-V Wagon.

Suggested by: SantaCruzin6

Unless something drastically changes it'll be cars that show an era's excess like it is now. Examples – 1920/30's – Duesenberg's, Cords, Mercedes, etc – 1950s – Giant American Cars/Post War European sports cars. I think if the world has gone through some shit due the excess of the 20th century as it appears it going too then cars that show our era's frivolousness might be highly collectable. I could see a this even in 2120's being full of 80's Ferraris/Lambos, Hummers, diesel pickup trucks, huge SUVs like Escalades and G Wagons, super cars, etc to drive how how dumb we were. Then they'll be the early electrics. I could see a early production Tesla Model S that functions being something that would be there. Basically the whole car that started it all for electrics sort of thing.

That... or it'll be the fanciest horse drawn wagons built out of the parts left over from our civilization after the collapse of 2078.

Suggested by: jkochman

I hope it's something mundane and universally reviled in its contemporary age. Pontiac Aztek, Dodge Caliber, Lincoln Blackwood... Something no one cares about now that will be an absolutely rarity because one old coot stashed one away in a barn.

Suggested by: msuitepyon