Expensive is a relative term, but around 99.9% of the population could agree that the cars featured here are absurdly expensive. They’re several hundred times what most people will earn in their lifetimes, and overtake the average GDP of some small nations (probably). It’s important to note these are the prices of vehicles when new, and not the outright most expensive cars in the world, that honor goes to auctioned classics like old Bugattis or the odd Ferrari 250 GTO.
Bugatti La Voiture Noire: $13.4 Million
A tribute to Jean Bugatti’s personal Type 57 SC Atlantic, the $13m La Voiture Noire is so disgustingly expensive that most people could live off the car’s price tag for the rest of their days pretty comfortably. It’s also the cheapest car on this list. The massive quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 engine is derived from the one under the very expensive hood of the Chiron and produces a whopping 1,479 horsepower. It’s got six exhaust tips, wheels that look nothing like the ones off the Atlantic, and a longer, more rakish profile than the Chiron. It was also a one-off, so even if you had the cash, you can’t buy one.
Bugatti Brouillard: $20 Million (ish)
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The Brouillard is another one-off Bugatti, though this one is so exclusive you can’t know what the car’s obscenely wealthy owner paid for it. At a guess, the car is worth some $7 million more than the already ridiculous La Voiture Noire. The Bugatti is part of its bespoke one-off service, which so many automakers at this level have also spun up. The brand’s version of the program is called Programme Solitaire. The product of it, the Brouillard, features a unique glass roof panel and is heavily based on the brand’s Mistral. A version of Bugatti’s 8-liter W16 makes 1,578 horsepower.
Bugatti FKP Hommage: $20 million (ish)
The second car in Bugatti’s Programme Solitaire, the FKP Hommage is exactly what it sounds like. We’ve reached the point where nostalgia for the early aughts is starting to emerge, and Bugatti is buying in with this tribute to the groundbreaking Veyron. Again using the brand’s W16 engine, the car’s styling elements pay tribute to the original Veyron, with rounder proportions and a unique interior intended to more closely recall the Chiron’s. Exact pricing is, again, unknown, but more than $20 million is a good guess.
Gordon Murray Automotive S1 LM: $20.6 Million
From the man who brought you the McLaren F1 comes… another McLaren F1. Gordon Murray knows what he’s good at, and the S1 LM is his own take on a modern F1 LM. Gordon Murray Automotive’s retro-ish revival uses a naturally aspirated V-12 with a six-speed manual transmission, with power estimates putting the V12 somewhere around 650 horsepower. The automaker says just five will be built, and allegedly, one hilariously greedy, mentally ill buyer has bought all five. I suppose the guy (and it could only be a guy) sold one of them at auction, where it brought in an astounding $20,630,000.
Rolls-Royce Boat Tail: $28 Million (ish)
Rolls-Royce used to be a coachbuilder, back when people literally used coaches. The Boat Tail marked a re-entry into bespoke coachbuilding and served as a successor to the brand’s 2017 Sweptail. The Boat Tail has a unique two-tone body, with its own “hosting suite.” That means a built-in umbrella and the obligatory champagne fridge. Rolls never announces pricing for these sorts of cars, but the above is a best guess.
Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail: $30 million (ish)
The Boat Tail’s successor, the La Rose Noire Droptail, is another laughably pricey coachbuilt car. The car is the first of four unique commissions, the rest of which will soon follow. This wears a totally exclusive hue – Ture Love – and could be worth as much as $35 million.
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Chase Bierenkoven
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