Which car is the most expensive?

Let's try to find out which machine is the mostexpensive in the world today. And we'll figure it out as an absolute indicator (among all classes of cars), and on the main classes, of which, as you know, there are three: antiquarian cars, sports cars (sport cars) and exclusive cars.

The most expensive car in the world

As you probably already guessed, the most expensivethe car belongs to the category of antiques. And the record was set in 2010, when at the auction "Gooding and Co" car Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic 1936-th year of release was bought for almost 40 million US dollars. By the way, now this car is one of the main exhibits of the Mullin Automotive Museum in the United States, and until recently was in one private collection. The most interesting thing is that at one time Dr. P. Williamson, the former owner of the car, bought it for only 59 thousand dollars. It was in 1971. Thus, the cost of the car for 40 years has grown, it is terrible to imagine - 500 times! But the fact that the price of the car was so high is not at all surprising, because the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic is, in fact, the world's first supercar - in those years there was no other car that could accelerate to 200 km / h and would have 210 hp under the hood. Two times cheaper, namely, $ 20 million, was estimated by Ferrari 250 GTO in 1963 year of release. In total, 36 such machines were produced, but the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic - only three. Well, now from serial rarities to modern serial cars.

The most expensive cars: sports cars

And here is also the leader of Bugatti - and this time it isBugatti EB 16.4 Veyron. Its price in comparison with rare cars may seem low, but for a modern production car it's just space - it's almost 1 million 700 thousand dollars! True, according to experts, the price is justified by the astounding technical characteristics of the car - a maximum speed of 407 km / h, and on a special track and at all 431 km / h, and in one of the races up to 434 km / h! In addition, the Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron accelerates to 100 km / h in only 2.5 seconds, and the car's power is 1001 l / s - unprecedented figures. On speed, however, with Bugatti Veyron SSC Ultimate Aero 6.3 V-8 - the fastest sports car in the world can compete. The maximum speed of SSC Ultimate Aero 6.3 V-8 is just a space - 436 km / h! However, at a price this car is on the third place and costs about 655 thousand dollars. And between them is Pagani Zonda C12 7.3 V12 costing 667 thousand dollars.

Exclusive

This series includes machines of world famousbrands that are issued in a total number of not more than 50 per year. Also they are not sports or racing cars and have a price more than 100 thousand dollars. At the moment the leader here is the Maybach 62S MSRP worth 450 thousand dollars. He overtook such cars as Rolls-Royce Phantom (445 thousand), Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano (310 thousand) and other prestigious cars. And, of course, we have prepared for you the photos of the most expensive cars.