The Quail Photos and Highlights - 2025 Monterey Car Week

A 2025 Monterey Car Week Special by The Road Beat

Words and pictures: Mitchell Weitzman

Recapping the 2025 edition of The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering

The Quail, once the redheaded stepchild of Monterey Car Week over 20 years ago, has transformed into its crown jewel. How do you summarize a show this glamorous? Its atmosphere is a heady mix of the world’s most expensive oxygen and nitrogen, a dream event for car enthusiasts everywhere. Hypercars? They’re here in droves. Classics worth a combined billion (or two)? By the dozen. Unlimited gourmet food and drinks of your choosing? Nobody leaves famished, and plenty goes uneaten. This is an exercise in extreme extravagance, where prized automobiles serve as a dazzling backdrop rather than the true focus. Excess is simply the point.

The real magic lies in the people—hence the fitting term “Gathering” in its official name. Rarely elsewhere will you find such a mix of humans: high-powered automotive execs, trust fund billionaires, the occasional mid-tier celebrity, all in one place. It’s an experience best shared with your closest friends, as a tasting menu of the highest caliber. Drink, eat, laugh, ogle cars, drink, eat, repeat. For half a day, you’re immersed in sensory overload, mingling with too many fascinating people, fascinating machines, overeating, and—watch yourself—possibly overdrinking. You might even wake up the next morning, bleary-eyed, realizing you accidentally wrote a check for a new Pagani, or lost your beach house in some kind of bet gone awry.

Sit back and enjoy the following photos that highlight the best sights from this year's edition of The Quail brought to Monterey Car Week and Carmel Valley.

The iconic balloon chef. As far as I know, he has no name, so I shall dub thee Chef Quailude (apologies for the dumb pun)

Lamborghini unveiled the ferocious Fenomeno, which was rather phenomenal if too derivative of other past Lamborghinis and other contemporary supercars. Either way, I'm sure they'll make money on this 1-of-29 special.

One of several tents where you'll find a buffet of all-you-can-eat cuisine and drinks if you don't have a check liver light on

The single largest gathering of Ferrari F50s maybe ever?