The eccentricity of the billionaires: the most expensive cars in the world

Among the billionaires, collectors are often found. Often, these eccentrics do not collect the most expensive cars in the world. So, David Rockefeller, a representative of a well-known financial clan, does not part with a box in which he places beetles for his collection. Enriched on IT Mark Zuckerberg breeds pigs and goats. The owner of the banks Elemme Spangler buys up and repairs the antique clock. "Oilman" Gordon Gatty loves to write operas. Billionaires make the shelves collectible Bibles, with childish excitement they examine through the magnifying glass the purchased stamps. And Gary Maynness feels a spiritual uplift, dispersing, as a farmer, a reinforced truck off-road. The eccentric Sai-Wing (Hong Kong) uses a gold toilet bowl weighing 1 ton. Obviously, in this way he shows the world how a jewelry magnate should treat despicable metal. However, still many of them collect special vintage cars, yachts, planes. And, as you know, the price does not matter much.

The subject of discussion in this article will be the most expensive cars in the world as a subject of craze for moneybags.

Of course, it would be foolish to look like a car of this class, freely parked in the city or "tossing" the owner over the city traffic jams to the office. Machines of the XXII century level, created with the use of space technologies, innovative composites and rare metal alloys, are produced most often individually, more rarely in small series.

Contrary to technology, traditionally at the top of the ranking are the most expensive retro cars in the world. Concerning them, the saying "stands like an airplane" is really justified. The absolute record is unquestionably owned by Bugatti Atlantic 57SC, sold in a private collection for $ 40 million. Looks impressive auction value of the representative of the "Ferrari" release in 1962 - $ 28.5 million. And the price of a representative of the brand "Bugatti Royale Kellner", collected in 1931, was "only" $ 8.7 million. Do not you want to leave a scratch on the stern of such a miracle of the car industry?

The second in the rating is followed by the most expensive cars in the world, produced in a single copy. The child of the company "Maybach" model "Exelero", for example, was estimated at $ 8 million. Of the unique cars worth mentioning is a brilliant in the literal and figurative sense of the Swedish "Koenigsegg Trevita" with a composite body covered with diamond powder (and it happens!), Estimated at $ 2.2 million.

The world's most expensive production cars have a relatively "modest" price. The most expensive of them is the sport of the Italian company "Bugatti Veyron". The 16-cylinder heart of this iron horse carries 1,200 hp. The cost of the model is 2.6 million, the car demonstrates a maximum speed of about 430 km / h. It has a removable carbon fiber roof, easily turning into a convertible. In this form, its maximum is 370 km / h. The next position is shared between the car "Ferrari 599XX" and the mysterious "Prince of Denmark" with space design - "Zenvo ST1". Their price is 1.7 - 1.8 million.

The most expensive cars in the world usually have a sports modification, have a unique dynamics (100 km / h they gain for some 2.4-2.9 s) and are produced in small series. In the world car market there is a constant competition between the luxurious auto brands Bentley, Bugatti, Maserati, Ferrari, Maybach, Rolls-Royce. Wealthy people value the special comfort and characteristics of their non-trivial cars. For example, David Beckham's soul does not chaet (for which he even tease him) in his Rolls-Royce's black pacer "Phantom", preferring it precisely from his whole "stables". Glamorous Peris Hilton has a beloved girlfriend from the "Bentley", of course, a pearly pink (and you thought, some other?) Color. She chose the "Continental JT" model for herself. Fans Cristiano Ronaldo know perfectly well that he adores his 599th Ferrari.

An essential condition limiting the use of these super-expensive coupe, we have a small ground clearance, not exceeding 10 cm. These "foreigners", of course, prefer autobahns. Agree, if they are bought by wealthy entrepreneurs, then this is normal. Questions arise when the above marks appear on government officials or their children. But this is a topic for another article.