TaylorMade drivers by year, and what each is worth

TaylorMade has put a new driver family in stores every winter since 2016, each one billed as faster or more forgiving than the last. The used market keeps its own ranking, and newest-is-best is only part of it.

When we checked in October 2026, the 2021 SIM2 was worth more used than the 2022 Stealth that replaced it. An M5 that cost $549.99 new was worth less than the $499.99 M6 that launched beside it. And a used Qi4D, the newest of the lot, cost nearly twice what a three-year-old Stealth 2 did. Here is every TaylorMade driver from the M1 on, what changed each year, which head suits which swing, and what each is worth used today.

Every TaylorMade driver by year

The last column is our algorithm’s target price for each model today, roughly what a buyer pays for one in typical used condition. Each links to the club’s own page, which shows when it was checked and every live listing under it.

Launch prices are TaylorMade’s US prices with a stock shaft, as announced at launch. Custom shafts and launch-monitor versions cost more.

What TaylorMade’s names mean

Every family comes in several heads, and the suffix tells you more about who it’s for than the family name does.

• No suffix (SIM2, Stealth 2, Qi10, Qi35, Qi4D) is the middle of the range: mid launch, mid spin, plenty of forgiveness. The sensible default.
• Max is the most forgiving head, with weight pushed back to keep off-center hits straighter. The Qi10 Max and Qi35 Max were built to 10K combined MOI. Most golfers would hit one better than they think.
• LS and Plus are low spin, with sliding weights for tinkering. They suit fast swings that already launch the ball high, and cost everyone else distance.
• HD, D and D-Type lean toward a draw, for golfers whose miss is a slice.
• Max Lite is a lighter build of the Max for slower swing speeds.

The M years used numbers instead. Odd ones (M1, M3, M5) were the adjustable, lower-spin heads; even ones (M2, M4, M6) were the forgiving ones with fixed weighting. Remember that split. It turns out to be the best predictor of what an older TaylorMade is worth now.

Year by year

2026: Qi4D

Announced January 8 and in stores January 29, 2026, in four heads: Qi4D, LS, Max and Max Lite, all at $649.99. TaylorMade called it its fastest and most fittable family yet, with a fifth-generation carbon face, movable weights and a Speed Pocket cut right through the sole. Used, the standard head has a target of $532, the LS $497 and the Max $502. A driver this new still carries the premium every new driver does. For now it’s also the only family where the LS is worth as much used as the Max.

2025: Qi35

In stores January 30, 2025. The Qi35, Max and Max Lite were $599.99 and the LS $649.99. The pitch was forgiveness without a spin penalty: a lower center of gravity, and 10K MOI in the Max. Less than two years later it has given up more than 40% of its launch price, which is about the normal toll for a driver’s first two seasons. Used: Qi35 $305, Max $306, Max Lite $372, LS $267.

2024: Qi10

The Stealth name lasted two generations; the Qi10 replaced it on February 2, 2024. The Qi10 and Qi10 Max were $599.99, the LS $629.99. The Max was the story: TaylorMade’s 10K driver, built around combined MOI rather than ball speed, under an “Infinity” carbon crown that runs right up to the face. Used: Qi10 $267, Max $295, LS $292.

2023: Stealth 2

In stores February 17, 2023, with “more carbon, more forgiveness” as the line: the carbon face again, now set in a carbon-reinforced composite ring. The Stealth 2 and HD were $599.99, the Plus $629.99. Used: Stealth 2 $248, HD $184, Plus $211. Two months later TaylorMade released the BRNR Mini, a 304cc copper-and-black homage to its old Ti Bubble at $449.99. Mini drivers have a small, keen following, and the BRNR holds its price: $345 used.

2022: Stealth

The big swing. On February 4, 2022, TaylorMade replaced the titanium face with a red 60X Carbon Twist Face and called the result a “Carbonwood”. The Stealth and Stealth HD were $579.99, the Plus $599.99. It hasn’t held its value as well as the titanium SIM2 before it: when we checked, a used Stealth was worth about 40% of its launch price and a used SIM2 about half. Our read is simply that plenty of golfers preferred the older sound and feel. Used: Stealth $203, HD $208, Plus $206.

2021: SIM2, and a second M4

The SIM2, SIM2 Max and SIM2 Max D arrived February 19, 2021, all at $529.99, built on a milled aluminum ring with carbon crown and sole, which TaylorMade called Forged Ring Construction. It was the last flagship with a titanium face, and it shows in the price: SIM2 $270, SIM2 Max $274.

The same year TaylorMade quietly brought back the M4 as the “M4 2021” at $349.99. It’s the 2018 club with a new paint job: an upright “M”, red-only accents, nothing changed that affects how it plays. It reached Japan in October 2021 and UK stores in early 2022, which is why you’ll see listings call it a 2021 or even a 2022 driver. Price either one as an M4.

2020: SIM

“Shape in Motion”, in stores February 7, 2020. An asymmetric sole and a weighted bar at the back, the Inertia Generator, were there to cut drag through the downswing. The SIM was $549.99, the SIM Max and draw-biased SIM Max D $499.99 each, and the Max face is 8% larger. Used: SIM $215, SIM Max $237, SIM Max D $215.

2019: M5 and M6

February 1, 2019. Every face was injected with resin after it was made, tuning it right up to the legal speed limit; TaylorMade called it Speed Injected Twist Face. The M5 ($549.99) had a sliding weight track; the M6 ($499.99) fixed its weight low and back in what TaylorMade called the Inertia Generator. No TaylorMade driver since has held its value as badly as the M5: a used one is worth $170, against $201 for the M6 and $208 for the M6 D-Type.

2018: M3 and M4

In stores February 16, 2018, and the year Twist Face arrived: the face is curved a little differently toward the heel and the toe, so mishits there start closer to the target line. The M3 ($499) had the adjustable Y-Track, the M4 ($429) a fixed head with a slot in the sole. Used: M3 $148, M4 $178, M4 D-Type $174.

Is the M4 still worth buying?

For a mid- or high-handicapper on a budget, yes. It has the face technology from this era that does the most for an average golfer’s misses, and it costs a fraction of anything newer. What you give up is adjustability and the forgiveness of the later Max heads. Faster swingers who want to fiddle with weights should look at the SIM instead.

2016 and 2017: M1 and M2

The M1 started the series in October 2015 at $499, with a seven-layer carbon crown and two sliding weights on a T-shaped track. The simpler M2 followed in February 2016 at $399.99. Both were refreshed in January 2017: the M1 at $500 with more carbon, the M2 at $400. Used, an M1 is about $155 whichever year it is, and the M2 $211.

Which used TaylorMade driver is the best value?

Our prices from October 2026 show two things clearly.

The forgiving heads hold their value; the low-spin ones don’t. In every family more than a year old, the forgiving head is worth more used than its low-spin sibling: the Qi35 Max over the Qi35 LS, the Qi10 Max over the Qi10 LS, the Stealth 2 over the Stealth 2 Plus, the M6 over the M5, the M4 over the M3. That isn’t because the low-spin heads were worse clubs. Far fewer golfers can use one, so far fewer buyers are looking. If you swing fast enough for an LS, that’s good news: the used market charges you less for the head built for you.

The curve flattens fast. The steepest drop is in the first year, from the current Qi4D to last year’s Qi35. After that, everything from 2020 to 2023 sits in one band: SIM, SIM2, Stealth and Stealth 2 all had targets between about $215 and $270 when we checked in October 2026. Within that band, newer doesn’t cost much more.

So our pick for most golfers is the Qi10 Max, at $295 used. It’s TaylorMade’s 10K driver, built around forgiveness rather than ball speed, and it costs about two-thirds of what a used Qi4D does. If that’s more than you want to spend, a Stealth 2 ($248) gets you the carbon face for about the price of a 2020 SIM. On a tight budget, an M6 ($201) is the cheapest driver here that still feels current.

The one we’d skip is the newest. A used Qi4D costs nearly twice what a Stealth 2 does, and for a golfer who isn’t swinging at tour speed, three generations of progress add up to a few yards and a little forgiveness. That isn’t worth a couple of hundred dollars.

Before the M1

Most of the ideas the M-series refined started earlier. The r7 Quad (2004, about $600) was the first mass-market driver golfers could adjust themselves, with four screw-in weights. The R9 (March 2009, $399) added the adjustable hosel TaylorMade called Flight Control Technology, “24 drivers in one”. The R11 (February 2011, $400) is the one with the white crown and black face. Then came the RocketBallz (2012, $299), the SLDR (August 2013, $399), with a weight that slides along the front of the sole, the JetSpeed (December 2013, $299), the first TaylorMade driver with a Speed Pocket, and the AeroBurner (January 2015, $299).

Whatever they cost new, they now land in the same place, around a hundred dollars: RocketBallz $112, SLDR $96, Burner Superfast 2.0 $96. That makes a ten-year-old TaylorMade a perfectly good first driver for a beginner, and a poor thing to pay much more for.

Swapping shafts between them? Aftermarket adapter makers list one sleeve fit for TaylorMade’s adjustable drivers from the SLDR and R15 through the Qi35, while the R9, R11 and original RocketBallz take an older one. Check the shaft’s tip size, .335 or .350, before you buy.

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