From Rolls-Royce to Lamborghini, these are the most expensive cars in the world
The most expensive cars in the world are about so much more than transportation. These rolling works of art encapsulate the priorities of the one percent, and in that universe, flamboyance and swagger take precedence over practicality and efficiency. Lifestyle criticisms aside, these are truly mind-boggling machines. For the sake of clarity, we’re categorizing recent production vehicles only and we’re leaving out classic cars sold at auction. We’re also limiting the list to one entrant per nameplate, so don’t expect multiple iterations of the same Bugatti Veyron. And, note that these aren’t necessarily the fastest cars in the world, though many of them are damn fast.
So whether your name is Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, or McDuck, these rides are for you.
At a glance
Model
Price
Bugatti La Voiture Noire
$19 million
Rolls-Royce Sweptail
$13 million
Mercedes-Benz Maybach Exelero
$8 million
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita
$4.8 million
Lamborghini Veneno
$4.5 million
W Motors Lykan Hypersport
$3.4 million
Limited Edition Bugatti Veyron by Mansory Vivere
$3.4 million
Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio
$3 million
Bugatti Chiron
$2.9 million
Laferrari FXX K
$2.7 million
Aston Martin Valkyrie
$2.6 million
Pagani Huayra BC
$2.6 million
Mercedes-AMG One
$2.5 million
Ferrari F60 America
$2.6 million
Aston Martin Vulcan
$2.3 million
Milan Red
$2.3 million
McLaren Speedtail
$2.2 million
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The Ferrari LaFerrari is a vehicle held back by one thing — the law. Emissions standards and safety equipment add considerable bulk to a near-perfect machine, so for the track-only FXX K, the car bows only to physics.
The “standard” car’s output of 950 hp was boosted to a downright silly 1,035 hp in FXX K guise, and its various body modifications have increased downforce by up to 50 percent. Even the tires are space age, as the slick Pirellis feature embedded sensors to keep tabs on longitudinal, lateral, and radial acceleration, as well as temperature and pressure. Until Ferrari invents some sort of road-going hyperdrive, this is about as good as a performance car gets.
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$2.6 million (estimated) — Aston Martin Valkyrie
Aston Martin hasn’t revealed the price for its Valkyrie, which won’t even arrive until 2019. But multiple reports put the price at about $2.6 million and — from what we’ve heard so far — the Valkyrie will be well worth it.
The Valkyrie is the product of a partnership between Aston Martin and the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. The partners hope to achieve a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio, and they are equipping the Valkyrie with a lightweight carbon fiber chassis and 6.5-liter V12 hybrid powertrain to make that happen. The Valkyrie will also produce unprecedented levels of downforce on the track.
Aston plans to build both road-going and track-only versions of the Valkyrie. The track version will be able to keep up with a Le Mans LMP1 race car on the track, Aston boasts. Only 150 Valkyries will be built, including 25 track versions and a handful of prototypes.
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With an AMG-sourced V12 and the second fastest road-legal Top Gear lap ever, the Pagani Huayra is a beast through and through — it’s named after the Incan god of winds, after all. That wasn’t quite enough for Pagani, however. At the 2016 Geneva motor show, Pagani debuted the Huayra BC, a lighter, hotter version that takes no prisoners.
Right off the bat, you can tell the BC is playing a different game from the standard Huayra. It’s fitted with an enormous active rear spoiler that generates 1,102 pounds of downforce at 155 mph, as well as a wider rear track, new side skirts, and a bevy of sê×ÿ aero goodies. Despite the additions, the BC is a true featherweight, tipping the scales at a paltry 2,654 pounds thanks to the extensive use of carbon fiber and other lightweight materials. The whole deal will cost you a cool $2.6 million (or it would have, if all 20 units hadn’t sold already), but you clearly get a lot for your money. With 789 turbocharged ponies on tap, the BC may actually live up to its godly name.
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When Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division turned 50, its engineers created one hell of a birthday present. The AMG One (formerly known as the Project One) is a supercar with the heart of a Formula One race car. It’s built using components sourced from the company’s championship-winning cars, starting with a 1.6-liter turbocharged V6. It sits behind the driver and revs up to 11,000 rpm. The six-cylinder is assisted by four electric motors: two that power the front wheels, one that helps the V6 drive the rear wheels, and another one that spools up the turbocharger. The result is a combined output of over 1,000 horsepower.
Aerodynamics dictated its low-slung shape. The interior is pretty barren, which you’d expect from this kind of machine. There are two heavily bolstered seats installed close together, a pair of 10-inch screens, and a Formula One-style steering wheel with buttons for things like the driving modes and the suspension settings.
Mercedes-AMG expects to deliver the first examples of the AMG One in late 2019. Production is limited to 275 examples and, unsurprisingly, every single example has already been spoken for.
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To celebrate Ferrari’s 60-year tenure in North America, the Italian brand built 10 examples of this stunning bombshell. Based on the F12 Berlinetta, the F60 is undeniably patriotic as it wears a Stars and Stripes color scheme, American flag seat inserts, and classic racing livery all around. Better yet, you can experience the glory with the top down, as the F60 features a lightweight fabric top that can be operated at speeds up to 75 mph.
The supercar is mechanically identical to the F12, but the Berlinetta isn’t exactly a Fiat Panda to begin with. Its 6.2-liter V12 churns out 740 glorious hp, enough to propel the car to 60 mph in only 3.1 seconds. The ultra rare flag-waver harks back to Ferrari’s bespoke past, as the company built several region-specific sports cars in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Purpose-built track cars seem to be all the rage these days, and Aston Martin recently jumped on the bandwagon in a big way. The Vulcan isn’t legal on the road — hence its honorable mention status — but if you happened to snag one of the 24 examples made, you’re very lucky indeed.
The Vulcan may look like a spaceship, but it’s actually a tribute to old-school analog feel. Instead of a high-tech hybrid system, it relies on the pure grunt of a naturally aspirated 7.0-liter V12. That massive engine produces over 800 hp, an output it sends to the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox.
The car itself is built around a carbon-fiber monocoque, ensuring those 800 horses don’t have much to push around. In fact, Aston claims the Vulcan has a better power-to-weight ratio than some of its race cars. And if that isn’t hardcore enough, Aston required owners to train in a Vantage GT4 racer and a One-77 before stepping into their Vulcans. Now that’s serious performance.
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New companies pop up all of the time promising supercars, and offering spectacular statistics to stoke the hype. Milan Automotive (which, despite the name, is based in Austria, not Italy) is one of those companies.
Named after the Red Kite, a species of bird of prey, the Milan Red is a supercar boasting a $2.3 million price tag and a limited production run of just 99 cars. That small group of customers will get a 6.2-liter quad-turbocharged V8 producing a claimed 1,307 hp and 1,303 lb-ft of torque, plus exterior styling that’s sure to turn heads.
Milan claims the Red will do 0 to 62 mph in 2.47 seconds, and reach a top speed of 249 mph. As with all new boutique automakers, it’s unclear whether Milan actually be able to meet those performance targets, or get its supercar into production at all. But it would be cool to see this new company pull it off.
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The most expensive cars in the world are about so much more than transportation. These rolling works of art encapsulate the priorities of the one percent, and in that universe, flamboyance and swagger take precedence over practicality and efficiency. Lifestyle criticisms aside, these are truly mind-boggling machines. For the sake of clarity, we’re categorizing recent production vehicles only and we’re leaving out classic cars sold at auction. We’re also limiting the list to one entrant per nameplate, so don’t expect multiple iterations of the same Bugatti Veyron. And, note that these aren’t necessarily the fastest cars in the world, though many of them are damn fast.
So whether your name is Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, or McDuck, these rides are for you.
At a glance
Model
Price
Bugatti La Voiture Noire
$19 million
Rolls-Royce Sweptail
$13 million
Mercedes-Benz Maybach Exelero
$8 million
Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita
$4.8 million
Lamborghini Veneno
$4.5 million
W Motors Lykan Hypersport
$3.4 million
Limited Edition Bugatti Veyron by Mansory Vivere
$3.4 million
Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio
$3 million
Bugatti Chiron
$2.9 million
Laferrari FXX K
$2.7 million
Aston Martin Valkyrie
$2.6 million
Pagani Huayra BC
$2.6 million
Mercedes-AMG One
$2.5 million
Ferrari F60 America
$2.6 million
Aston Martin Vulcan
$2.3 million
Milan Red
$2.3 million
McLaren Speedtail
$2.2 million
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The Ferrari LaFerrari is a vehicle held back by one thing — the law. Emissions standards and safety equipment add considerable bulk to a near-perfect machine, so for the track-only FXX K, the car bows only to physics.
The “standard” car’s output of 950 hp was boosted to a downright silly 1,035 hp in FXX K guise, and its various body modifications have increased downforce by up to 50 percent. Even the tires are space age, as the slick Pirellis feature embedded sensors to keep tabs on longitudinal, lateral, and radial acceleration, as well as temperature and pressure. Until Ferrari invents some sort of road-going hyperdrive, this is about as good as a performance car gets.
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$2.6 million (estimated) — Aston Martin Valkyrie
Aston Martin hasn’t revealed the price for its Valkyrie, which won’t even arrive until 2019. But multiple reports put the price at about $2.6 million and — from what we’ve heard so far — the Valkyrie will be well worth it.
The Valkyrie is the product of a partnership between Aston Martin and the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. The partners hope to achieve a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio, and they are equipping the Valkyrie with a lightweight carbon fiber chassis and 6.5-liter V12 hybrid powertrain to make that happen. The Valkyrie will also produce unprecedented levels of downforce on the track.
Aston plans to build both road-going and track-only versions of the Valkyrie. The track version will be able to keep up with a Le Mans LMP1 race car on the track, Aston boasts. Only 150 Valkyries will be built, including 25 track versions and a handful of prototypes.
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With an AMG-sourced V12 and the second fastest road-legal Top Gear lap ever, the Pagani Huayra is a beast through and through — it’s named after the Incan god of winds, after all. That wasn’t quite enough for Pagani, however. At the 2016 Geneva motor show, Pagani debuted the Huayra BC, a lighter, hotter version that takes no prisoners.
Right off the bat, you can tell the BC is playing a different game from the standard Huayra. It’s fitted with an enormous active rear spoiler that generates 1,102 pounds of downforce at 155 mph, as well as a wider rear track, new side skirts, and a bevy of sê×ÿ aero goodies. Despite the additions, the BC is a true featherweight, tipping the scales at a paltry 2,654 pounds thanks to the extensive use of carbon fiber and other lightweight materials. The whole deal will cost you a cool $2.6 million (or it would have, if all 20 units hadn’t sold already), but you clearly get a lot for your money. With 789 turbocharged ponies on tap, the BC may actually live up to its godly name.
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When Mercedes-Benz’s AMG division turned 50, its engineers created one hell of a birthday present. The AMG One (formerly known as the Project One) is a supercar with the heart of a Formula One race car. It’s built using components sourced from the company’s championship-winning cars, starting with a 1.6-liter turbocharged V6. It sits behind the driver and revs up to 11,000 rpm. The six-cylinder is assisted by four electric motors: two that power the front wheels, one that helps the V6 drive the rear wheels, and another one that spools up the turbocharger. The result is a combined output of over 1,000 horsepower.
Aerodynamics dictated its low-slung shape. The interior is pretty barren, which you’d expect from this kind of machine. There are two heavily bolstered seats installed close together, a pair of 10-inch screens, and a Formula One-style steering wheel with buttons for things like the driving modes and the suspension settings.
Mercedes-AMG expects to deliver the first examples of the AMG One in late 2019. Production is limited to 275 examples and, unsurprisingly, every single example has already been spoken for.
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To celebrate Ferrari’s 60-year tenure in North America, the Italian brand built 10 examples of this stunning bombshell. Based on the F12 Berlinetta, the F60 is undeniably patriotic as it wears a Stars and Stripes color scheme, American flag seat inserts, and classic racing livery all around. Better yet, you can experience the glory with the top down, as the F60 features a lightweight fabric top that can be operated at speeds up to 75 mph.
The supercar is mechanically identical to the F12, but the Berlinetta isn’t exactly a Fiat Panda to begin with. Its 6.2-liter V12 churns out 740 glorious hp, enough to propel the car to 60 mph in only 3.1 seconds. The ultra rare flag-waver harks back to Ferrari’s bespoke past, as the company built several region-specific sports cars in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Purpose-built track cars seem to be all the rage these days, and Aston Martin recently jumped on the bandwagon in a big way. The Vulcan isn’t legal on the road — hence its honorable mention status — but if you happened to snag one of the 24 examples made, you’re very lucky indeed.
The Vulcan may look like a spaceship, but it’s actually a tribute to old-school analog feel. Instead of a high-tech hybrid system, it relies on the pure grunt of a naturally aspirated 7.0-liter V12. That massive engine produces over 800 hp, an output it sends to the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential gearbox.
The car itself is built around a carbon-fiber monocoque, ensuring those 800 horses don’t have much to push around. In fact, Aston claims the Vulcan has a better power-to-weight ratio than some of its race cars. And if that isn’t hardcore enough, Aston required owners to train in a Vantage GT4 racer and a One-77 before stepping into their Vulcans. Now that’s serious performance.
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New companies pop up all of the time promising supercars, and offering spectacular statistics to stoke the hype. Milan Automotive (which, despite the name, is based in Austria, not Italy) is one of those companies.
Named after the Red Kite, a species of bird of prey, the Milan Red is a supercar boasting a $2.3 million price tag and a limited production run of just 99 cars. That small group of customers will get a 6.2-liter quad-turbocharged V8 producing a claimed 1,307 hp and 1,303 lb-ft of torque, plus exterior styling that’s sure to turn heads.
Milan claims the Red will do 0 to 62 mph in 2.47 seconds, and reach a top speed of 249 mph. As with all new boutique automakers, it’s unclear whether Milan actually be able to meet those performance targets, or get its supercar into production at all. But it would be cool to see this new company pull it off.
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