It’s not as easy as you may expect to single out one car as the most expensive car ever made. We need to divide the question into a few sections in order to receive a good response. We will talk about the world’s most costly new car first, and then the world’s most expensive collector car. And at the conclusion of the piece, you will have the knowledge you need to answer the following question: What is the most expensive car in the world?
Let’s pause and put things in context before delving into the stratospheric numbers. The average transaction price for a new car has been roughly $48,000 for the past year. That is over $10,000 more than the price of new autos in 2019 before the pandemic. What can you buy with that today? With a few options, you could acquire a Ford Mustang GT, a Kia Telluride, or a midrange Ford F-150. Considering that these selections are some of the greatest in their respective classes, not terrible at all.
The Nissan Versa is at the very bottom of the range and can be purchased brand-new for significantly less than $20,000. While there are some oddities, like the Changli Nemica (which is really a car but isn’t quite legal for the streets in America), you can get one from Alibaba for roughly $1,000 at first, but there are a lot of other expenses, such as delivery.
The most costly vehicle in 2024 will be a $30 million Rolls-Royce Droptail.
The Rolls-Royce Droptail is the world’s most expensive car, excluding the market for historic cars. Three Droptail models have been constructed thus far: the Arcadia Droptail, La Rose Noire Droptail in ruby tones, and the Amethyst Droptail. The most recent example, the Arcadia, has a white paint job that is mixed with glass and aluminium particles to create a depth-enhancing pearl look. After then, the three Droptails’ overall appearance, which consists of an upright grille, narrow rear lights, and a rounded back end, is almost unaltered.
The Droptail is an incredibly unusual vehicle, much like other extremely expensive and opulent Rolls-Royce boats with nautical themes (see the 2017 Sweptail and the 2021 Boat Tail). The one surviving version is very likely to cost even more than the La Rose Noire, which already cost over $30 million.
For those who are keeping score, the first vehicle to come out of the company’s Coachbuild division, which caters to the profanely affluent, was the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail, which was formerly the most expensive automobile in the world at $28 million. For example, the first Boat Tail commission belongs to a pearl tycoon. To put the asking amount in context, 1,797 Nissan Sentras would be needed to purchase The Boat Tail.
Other well-known vehicles that will cost over a million dollars in 2024 are:
Elva by McLaren: $1.7 million
$1.8 million for a Hennessey Venom GT
$1.9 million for a Bentley Bacalar
SSC Tuatara: $2,000,000,000
Battista Pininfarina: $2.2 million
$2.3 million for Lotus Evija
$2.4 million for Rimac Nevera
Ferrari Sian: $3.75 million
Bolide Bugatti: $4.3 million
$7.4 million for Pagani Codalunga
The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 was the most costly vehicle ever sold at auction.
Cost: $142 million
Let’s begin at the top: the most expensive car ever to be sold at auction. 2022 saw the sale of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe Prototype for $142 million. At a private auction held at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany, RM Sotheby’s sold it on behalf of the automaker. There were two prototypes built; Mercedes is the owner of the other one. We know what Mercedes did with part of the money, but the new owner’s identity is still unknown at this time. A fellowship for students studying environmental science and decarbonisation was established using some of the proceeds.
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