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Wynn Concours: A Celebration of Automotive Excellence in Las Vegas

Article Published on 12 August 2026 by NU Rally

The Concours at Wynn Las Vegas returns for its fifth annual edition from October 29 through November 1, 2026, bringing hundreds of rare, historic, and high-performance automobiles to the Wynn Golf Club. The four-day event combines a traditional concours with modern supercars, hypercars, race cars, automotive innovations, and collector-car activities across the Wynn property.

The event is relatively young compared with established concours such as Pebble Beach or Amelia Island, but its development has been unusually fast. Over its first four editions, the Las Vegas Concours has built a collection of cars that goes beyond traditional pre-war and post-war concours categories, adding American classics, supercars, restomods, racing cars, hypercars, and manufacturer showcases.

That broader approach is important to understanding what Wynn is building. Rather than treating collector cars as a closed world of preservation and restoration, the event connects historical automobiles with the modern performance industry and the wider car culture already thriving in Las Vegas.

From Collector Cars to a Broader Automotive Culture

The 2023 Concours featured significant pre-war and post-war automobiles, including a 1935 Duesenberg SJ that had previously won Best of Show at Pebble Beach and a 1969 Lamborghini Miura S, one of the cars credited with defining the modern supercar. By 2024, the event had expanded its range considerably. Its Best of Show winners included a 1931 Duesenberg Model J Taper Tail Speedster and a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, while specialty displays covered subjects ranging from the Ford Mustang and Aston Martin DB5 to restomods, racing cars, and modern classics.

The 2025 edition continued that progression. Its Best of Show winners were a 1929 Mercedes-Benz 680 S Barker Tourer and a 1951 Ferrari 212 Export, while other classes recognized cars including a 1955 Maserati A6GCS, 1964 Lamborghini 350 GT, 1971 Porsche 911 S, and 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Looking across those editions shows the direction of the event. Wynn has not limited itself to one definition of a great car. The field has moved between coachbuilt pre-war automobiles, significant European sports cars, American icons, racing machinery, restorations, and modern performance cars.

That has helped push Las Vegas further into the collector-car calendar.

The city already had an enormous enthusiast presence, driven by luxury dealerships, exotic-car rentals, track experiences, auctions, and the sheer number of visitors interested in high-performance cars. Wynn Concours gives that audience something different: a reason to look at automobiles through history, provenance, design, and preservation rather than simply horsepower and price.

What Changes in 2026

The fifth edition takes that broader philosophy further.

The 2026 exhibition is organized around four pillars: Concours d'Elegance, Artistry, Speed, and Hypercars & Supercars. The judged classes cover automobiles from 1925 through 1990, while the specialty classes move directly into modern motorsport and performance-car history. The judged field includes pre-war European cars from 1925–1939, post-war European cars from 1947–1967, European sports cars from 1950–1975, American luxury cars from 1920–1942, American muscle from 1953–1980, and the supercars of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

There is also a Classic Recreations category covering restomods, reimagined cars, and continuation cars, along with a class dedicated to production-built turbocharged automobiles from 1960–1990. Two specialty classes add an important motorsport and technology angle: GT1 cars from 1995–1997 and a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Porsche 959.

The Porsche 959 is particularly appropriate for the 2026 event. When it arrived in the mid-1980s, it represented a radically different idea of what a road-going performance car could be, combining all-wheel drive, turbocharging, advanced materials, aerodynamics, and technology developed through motorsport. Its inclusion places one of the defining technological milestones of the modern supercar era directly within the event's historical narrative. The judging system is also being modernized for 2026. Wynn Concours says it will use a Modernized 100 Point judging format, evaluating areas including exterior, interior, chassis, drivetrain, and functionality, while also allowing points for provenance, design, rarity, and historical and technical significance.

That last part is significant. A concours is ultimately about more than how clean a car is. Wynn's judging structure recognizes the history and identity of the automobile alongside its physical condition.

A Four-Day Automotive Weekend

The main Concours takes place on Saturday, October 31, 2026, beginning at 10 a.m. at Wynn Golf Club. The event is expected to feature hundreds of rare and significant automobiles. But the weekend has increasingly become larger than the Saturday exhibition.

Friday begins with a Welcome Reception from 6–8 p.m., followed by Night Shift GT from 7–10 p.m. on the fourth-floor rooftop of the Wynn parking garage. The evening focuses on modern hypercars and supercars, with the Las Vegas Strip providing the backdrop. The format is deliberately different from the main Concours. During the day, the emphasis is on preservation, judging, history, and craftsmanship. At Night Shift GT, the focus moves toward contemporary performance and the social side of car culture.

Saturday also brings The Las Vegas Auction 2026, presented by Broad Arrow Auctions. The auction is scheduled to feature more than 70 collector cars, with previews on Friday and Saturday at Wynn's Latour Ballroom. For collectors, the combination matters. A concours shows why historically important cars matter; an auction creates the opportunity for those cars to change hands.

The weekend concludes Sunday morning with the Tour d'Elegance, beginning at approximately 8:30 a.m. on November 1. Selected winning vehicles and other notable automobiles will travel along the Las Vegas Strip, taking the cars from static exhibition back onto the road. It is a fitting final step for an event built around automobiles that are meant to be preserved but not forgotten as machines.

Why Wynn Concours Matters to Las Vegas

The most important change may not be the size of the show itself. It is the role the event is beginning to play in Las Vegas. The city has always attracted expensive cars. Wynn Concours is helping create a stronger automotive culture around them.

Previous editions have demonstrated that the audience is interested in much more than modern exotics. A Duesenberg, Ferrari 250 GTO, Lamborghini Miura, Porsche 911, Mercedes-Benz 680 S, or Aston Martin DB5 can all attract attention for completely different reasons. That diversity gives Las Vegas something it previously lacked: an event where automotive history is presented as a serious part of the city's luxury and cultural landscape.

The 2026 edition pushes that idea further by putting traditional concours cars beside turbocharged icons, GT1 machinery, restomods, continuation cars, supercars, and hypercars.

In other words, the event isn't only looking backward.

It is showing the progression of the automobile from coachbuilt luxury and mechanical engineering to motorsport technology and modern performance. That may ultimately be Wynn Concours' biggest contribution to Las Vegas car culture. It has created a place where different parts of the enthusiast world can exist together: collectors, restorers, designers, racers, manufacturers, auction houses, photographers, and people who simply want to see significant cars in one place.

For 2026, Wynn expects its fifth edition to be its biggest yet, with hundreds of vehicles across its judged and exhibition fields. The event takes place October 29 through November 1, 2026, with the main Concours on October 31 and the Tour d'Elegance closing the weekend on November 1.