10 List of the Most Expensive Cars

For most people a $50,000 car is well out of reach, while others happily spend double or triple of that amount on a ride. However, even those enthusiasts might not be so keen to whip out their checkbooks when confronted with the price tag of these vehicles featured in a special list compiled by Forbes.

These are the most expensive cars in the world, usually bought by the kind of people who don’t even break a sweat amidst the worst economic crisis. Forbe's list in not without its flaws as the publication added two vehicles (the Enzo's successor and the upcoming Pagani Zonda C9) that have yet to be revealed, let alone be priced. Nevertheless, you can check out the complete list of exclusive toys for the real tycoons after the jump.

10. Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe – Price: $447,000

You can’t go wrong with a Rolls-Royce  Phantom, but if you really want something special, than opting for the Drophead Coupe is a no brainer. Powered by the same 453-horsepower V12, the open top version with its optional teak deck made of 30 different pieces of fine-grain wood, is in a league of its own, just like the people who can afford it. Even so, it’s the least expensive car in the list.\

9. Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce – Price: $455,400

A actual altered barbarian compared to the Drophead Coupe, the Lamborghini  LP670-4 SuperVeloce is the swan song of the Murcielago series. Boasting a 6.5-liter V12 engine, able of 670 hp, the four-wheel drive Italian supercar can ability 60 mph (96 km/h) in beneath than 3.2 seconds. Owner of this barbarian not alone accept to be rich, but able as well, abnormally if they're activity to specify the car with the six-speed chiral transmission.

8. Ferrari SA Aperta – Price: $520,000 (estimated)

Showcased at this year’s Paris Auto Show, the SA Aperta (aperta agency “open” in Italian) was Ferrari’s  way of adulatory the 80th ceremony of Pininfarina. Based on the 599 GTO, the SA Aperta has a disposable soft-top roof and appearance the aforementioned 670 hp V12 engine. With a 0-to-60 time of aloof 3.5 seconds, the sexiest 599 is absolutely a aerialist and a attenuate car, as alone 80 will be built.

7. LeBlanc Mirabeau – Price: $728,000

The LeBlanc Mirabeau is a pureblooded Swiss racecar, which happens to be street-legal at the aforementioned time. Wealthy playboys aren’t activity to be afflicted by affluence with this one, as covering and added abundance appearance amount extra. This apparatus is all about acceleration and handling, relying on a supercharged V8 for power, that delivers 700 hp and 850 Nm of torque.

6. SSC Ultimate Aero – Price: $750,000

Considered by abounding a Bugatti Veyron-killer, the SSC Aero Ultimate can ability a top acceleration of 273 mph (439 km/h), acknowledgment to its 1,287 hp V8 engine. Unlike the LeBlanc Mirabeau, this barbarian comes with absolutely a continued accepted accessories list. Abounding anatomy genitalia are fabricated from carbon fiber, but the failing actual has been additionally acclimated in the cabin.

5. Ferrari F70 – Price: $870,000 [Estimated]

For some reason, the fifth abode in Forbes' account is taken by a car that may be advancing but has yet to be alien or announced; the almsman to the Ferrari Enzo. Forbes names the car F70 and says it is accepted in 2012 with an estimated amount of $870,000 - we accept no abstraction how they came up with this price. The agent apparent in the account is Ferrari's Millechili concept.

4. Pagani Zonda C9 – Price: $1.3 million [Estimated]

The Pagani Zonda C9 may not be out yet, but it has been biconcave and alike teased by the company. Believed to affection a 700 hp agent from Merc's AMG analysis that won’t be a acquired of the V12 acclimated for the SL65 Black Series, the accessible Pagani  C9 will accept gullwing doors and added angled anatomy panels. Only 40 units will be built, anniversary featuring a high-tech carbon-titanium chassis, about 4,000 new genitalia compared to the approachable Zonda and distinctively developed Pirelli tires. Forbes estimates that the car will be priced at about $1.3 million.

3. Maybach Landaulet – Price: $1.405 million

Initially presented at the 2008 Detroit Motor Show, the Maybach  Landaulet is based on the 62S and it has a bendable top that offers rear cartage an abundantly activity of space. Powered by a accompanying turbo V12 engine, the Landaulet is a affluence accommodation on wheels, complete with refrigerator, folding tables and two albino flutes in hand-polished 925 admirable silver.

2. Koenigsegg Agera – Price: $1.5 million (estimated)

With a anatomy fabricated out of carbon cilia and aluminum, the 910 hp Koenigsegg  Agera can advance from standstill to 100 km/h (62 mph) in beneath 3.1 seconds. It’s a able supercar and again some, as the Swedes affirmation it offers the best baggage amplitude in this segment. Not the accomplished antecedence back affairs a agent of this kind, but for one and a bisected actor dollars, it's a acceptable plus.

1. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – Price: $2.6 million

It’s adamantine to define the raison d’etre of the Bugatti  Veyron Super Sport, accustomed that the “stock” Veyron is additionally ridiculously fast extensive a top acceleration of 407 km/h (253 mph). True, the Super Sport did ability a Guinness Apple of Records-certified top acceleration of 431 km/h or 268 mph, about the car alien to audience are belted to 415 km/h (258 mph). So, you accept to pay a ample exceptional over the beneath able Veyrons (the Bugatti 16.4 Grand Sport costs $1.86 actor and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 $1.59 million) for a bald 8 km/h (5 mph) access in top acceleration . But in the affluent man’s world, authority is actual important, and we’re absolutely abiding that billionaires will appropriately angle out the chef for the 1,200 application supercar.

Source: Forbes