The world’s most unique auto present? The Quail is now a hotspot of high-end automobile launches

The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering is now one of many preeminent elements of Monterey Automobile Week. Held since 2002 on the Quail Lodge & Golf Membership in Carmel, just a few miles from Monterey, the occasion is a strictly restricted affair with just some thousand tickets bought to a moneyed and extremely motivated viewers (the automobile park is a sight to behold).

Because the occasion has grown in stature and standing – present sponsors are Rolex and the Peninsula Lodge Group – it’s turn out to be a key launch floor for the large names in luxurious and sporting automotive. There’s additionally a rising roster of restomod reveals, as specialist makers realise the facility of getting their product in entrance of the higher echelons of a car-mad slice of society from a car-mad state.

2025 represented a brand new peak in product launches, with one-offs and new fashions from everybody from Lamborghini to Infiniti turning up on the golf membership’s lawns and greens, alongside a formidable roster of traditional street and race automobiles from the previous century or so of motoring.

Within the absence of the previous circuit of worldwide motor reveals, The Quail supplies the proper place for automobile makers to rise up shut and private with their patrons – everybody from Aston Martin to Morgan, Bentley to Cadillac, lined up alongside area of interest builders like Singer and Czinger, Meyers Manx and Pagani.

Right here’s our collection of essentially the most notable launches on the occasion.

Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution F

‘It appears like America,’ stated the person from Texas-based hypercar maker Hennessey as the brand new Venom F5 spluttered into life on the corporate’s stand, shortly after the covers had been pulled off. This one-off model of the F5 represents the capabilities of the corporate’s new devoted ‘buyer fee division’, Maverick.

In true Texan model, Hennessey describes the bespoke LF as a ‘image of individuality, innovation, and American pleasure,’ growing a unprecedented 2,031hp but sending all that energy via a guide gearbox. The Revolution F additionally will get a towering new rear wing and uncovered Cocoa Brown carbon fibre bodywork together with River Sand Metallic paint. Not a automobile for shrinking violets.