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What a classic Reliant sells for at auction

The median, the usual range and the way prices have moved, from 295 recorded Reliant sales at public auction since 2004: which models make the most, which come up most often, and what each of them sells for.

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Median sold price by year, with the dashed line restated in 2025 money. Hollow final dot: the current, incomplete year.
Median sold price £3,500
Usual range £1,642 to £6,556
Recorded sales 295 since 2004
Data to 10 August 2026

295 Reliants have sold at public auction since 2004, at a median of £3,500; the middle half of them made between £1,642 and £6,556. The sale rooms see about 36 a year and 77% of the cars offered find a buyer. The Scimitar GTE is the one that comes up most often, with 116 sales on record at a median of £3,450. The highest result is £41,625, paid for a Regal in November 2017.

In 2025 the median classic Reliant sold for £3,972 across 50 sales, 7% down on 2024. In real terms, typical classic Reliant prices were down about 17% over the five years to 2025, once inflation is accounted for.

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Reliant median sold price by year, nominal and adjusted for inflation
Year Sold Median In 2025 money
2026 (so far) 16 £2,705
2025 50 £3,972 £3,972
2024 35 £4,275 £4,439
2023 35 £3,030 £3,251
2022 32 £5,848 £6,697
2021 30 £1,988 £2,458
2020 8 £3,768 £4,774
2019 20 £5,532 £7,082
2018 20 £3,288 £4,281
2017 8 £4,468 £5,951
2016 10 £2,050 £2,801
2015 7 £1,050 £1,449
2014 4 £3,105 £4,302
2011 3 £3,262 £4,809
2008 5 £2,812 £4,502
2005 5 £731 £1,271

Which Reliant models make the most

Not every Reliant is priced alike. The Scimitar GT sits at the top of the marque, with a median of £7,616 across 13 sales and most of them between £5,625 and £12,750. The Robin sits at the bottom at a median of £1,300, so the dearest Reliant model typically makes about 6 times what the cheapest does.

The Scimitar GTE alone accounts for about 39% of the Reliant sales on record, so the marque-wide median leans toward it.

Each bar runs from the quarter mark to the three-quarter mark of that marque's sales, so it covers the middle half of them and leaves out the project and the concours car. The thickest bars have three thousand sales or more behind them, the thinnest fewer than five hundred. The scale is by ratio, every gridline about three times the one before, which is the only way a Reliant and a Jaguar fit on one axis.

The busiest Reliant models in the sale rooms

Auction prices by Reliant model
Model Sales Usual range Median
Scimitar GTE 116 £1,775 to £6,113 £3,450
Robin 37 £840 to £1,792 £1,300
Scimitar 31 £1,935 to £8,014 £4,500
Scimitar GTC 27 £4,536 to £8,155 £6,000
Regal 17 £1,960 to £9,435 £4,945
Scimitar GT 13 £5,625 to £12,750 £7,616
Scimitar SS1 12 £2,463 to £3,229 £2,834
Rialto 11 £864 to £1,798 £1,650
Kitten 7 £1,360 to £4,452 £2,362
Supervan 5 £5,400 to £14,872 £5,750

Plus 19 rarer variants with too few sales for a row of their own.

The latest Reliant sales

Quick answers

Frequently asked questions

How much does a classic Reliant sell for?

Across 295 recorded auction sales, the median classic Reliant made £3,500, with most selling between £1,642 and £6,556 (as of August 2026). Those are sold prices rather than valuations: condition, history and specification move any individual car well outside that range.

Which Reliant is worth the most at auction?

Of the Reliant models with enough sales to read, the Scimitar GT carries the highest median: £7,616 across 13 recorded sales, most of them between £5,625 and £12,750, with the Scimitar GTC next at £6,000 (as of August 2026). Those are sold prices for cars in every condition; a concours example of a cheaper model can still out-sell a project Scimitar GT.

What is the cheapest way into a classic Reliant?

At auction, the Robin: a median of £1,300 across 37 recorded sales, with most between £840 and £1,792 (as of August 2026). The bottom of that range is usually a project rather than a bargain, and a cheap car to buy is rarely a cheap car to put right.

Are classic Reliant prices rising?

No, not on the evidence to 2025. Adjusted for inflation, the typical classic Reliant made about 17% less in 2025 than five years earlier. The 2025 median was £3,972 across 50 sales, 7% below 2024. Those are medians across every Reliant model and every condition the sale rooms see, so a single model can be moving the other way.

What is the most expensive classic Reliant ever sold at auction?

The highest recorded auction result for a classic Reliant is £41,625, paid for a Regal in November 2017. Results like that are exceptional cars at exceptional moments; the typical range is £1,642 to £6,556.

How often does a classic Reliant come up for sale?

Frequently, by classic-car standards: roughly 36 sell at auction each year, and 77% of the cars offered find a buyer. There is a steady supply, so it pays to wait for a good one rather than stretch for the first car you see.

Before you buy or sell

  • Buying a classic at auction

    Why the hammer price is never the price, what Category S and N actually mean, why a clean-looking V5C proves less than buyers assume, and how to think about bidding on a car nobody has let you inspect.

  • Selling a classic privately

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  • Agreed value insurance

    The trade valuation guides insurers use do not value cars over about twenty years old, which is why a classic on a market-value policy is a claim waiting to be argued. What the Financial Ombudsman expects, what the regulator found when it looked, what agreed value actually promises, and the evidence that sets it.

  • What a restoration really costs

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Strong evidence. 295 recorded sales and a dozen or more a year: the median and the range are well founded. Sold prices from public classic car auction results (2004 to 10 August 2026), not asking prices and not a valuation: a concours car and a project both sit inside these ranges, and condition, history and specification move any one car well outside them. Inflation-adjusted figures use the ONS CPIH index, in 2025 money. How to read these figures.