duPont REGISTRY April 2024

What does it mean to be the best? It’s a weird question to ask, like a clumsy line in a movie when the coach needs to motivate the football team. For duPont REGISTRY, which celebrates its 39th anniversary with this issue, it has always meant being the best resource in America for buying and selling exotics and luxury cars. This has been the magazine for people on all points on the enthusiast spectrum—for the dreamers, who pored over each page and every listing in a haze of automotive fantasy; for the collectors who are looking to add that one (or three, or five) missing cars to make the garage perfectly curated; and for the car dealers, who have always partnered closely with duPont REGISTRY to optimize their business. This month, we taking aim and firing at what, after all, it means to us when we say something is the best. We start out with our first-ever duPont REGISTRY Car of the Year award. There are many who claim they have the authority to crown the winner, but few with the heft