TOP TEN EXPENSIVE CARS

1. Bugatti Veyron $1,700,000

2.Ferrari Enzo $1,000,000

3.Pagani Zonda C12 F $741,000

4.Koenigsegg CCX $600,910

5.Porsche Carrera GT $484,000

6.Mercedes SLR McLaren $455,500

7.Maybach 62 $385,250

8.Rolls-Royce Phantom $320,000

9.Lamborghini Murcielago $279,900

10.Aston Martin Vanquish $255,000

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WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAR ON A BID

The world's most expensive car is up for sale. And whether or not you think it's worth the estimated $10 million asking price, it's no doubt exceedingly rare, beautiful and--like many follies in automotive history--a triumph of hubris over reason.

This Bugatti Type 41 Royale was the brainchild of Ettore Bugatti--and also a hugely expensive misstep in the history of his firm. In the 1920s, Bugatti was expecting to get a contract from the French military to build 16-cylinder aircraft engines. The contract never materialized, but Bugatti felt he could use half that engine, a straight eight, to form one of the most amazing luxury cars in history.

The Type 41 Royale engine had massive displacement: 12.7 liters, or over 700 cubic inches, roughly twice the size of most of the largest production V-8s that would be built by Detroit four decades later. This is still the largest engine of any car to be sold privately.

The car sold for a record £5.5 million at London's Royal Albert Hall before an audience of 4,000 enthusiasts. Now the present anonymous owner--believed to be Japanese--has commissioned Bonham & Brooks in London to offer the Bugatti Royale for resale to anyone willing to pay the asking price

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