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Old 05-06-2010, 03:14 PM
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Most expensive car ever?

Surprised no one has posted this yet.


pretty interesting.


wasn't there another high price car sale that broke records recently? Not the Bugatti from the bottom of the lake.


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A 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, the rarest of the rare, may have set a sales record at auction.The auction house, Gooding & Company, won't disclose the sale price even as it touts that that the car went for a sales record. It calls the Bugatti the "world's most valuable car." Autoblog puts the sales price at "between $30-40 million, easily eclipsing the $12.2 million paid for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa this time last year."


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Old 05-06-2010, 03:15 PM
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A classy ride for sure.
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Old 05-06-2010, 03:16 PM
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Just get a bunch of diamonds and super glue it to the exterior of the car.

That is how you make the most expensive anything!
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Old 05-06-2010, 03:27 PM
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Just get a bunch of diamonds and super glue it to the exterior of the car.

That is how you make the most expensive anything!
sadly... diamonds aren't really worth anything..... except to women.
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Old 05-06-2010, 03:35 PM
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Man... from this side it also firmly qualifies as the worlds ugliest ride...
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how is this angle?
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Old 05-06-2010, 03:44 PM
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how is this angle?
Have to tell ya that's much, much better but I still wouldn't pay $100 for it... But I'm also not a collector... and clearly this car is for those who, well - have everything else.
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I agree with MercFan. Its so ugly...not worth the money. The 2nd picture is a better angle...but still.

Instead of diamonds, we can glue on a few PS3's and some apple merchandise. That will be a pretty expensive car.
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I agree with MercFan. Its so ugly...not worth the money. The 2nd picture is a better angle...but still.

Instead of diamonds, we can glue on a few PS3's and some apple merchandise. That will be a pretty expensive car.

thats pretty funny. Honestly, I think you would just end up with a burdensome fad...

and no one will want it until the PS3's resurgence 35 years from now when some retro-chic tech nerd decides it was the best device ever produced.



If you read about the way Bugattis were made, it may help you understand their collectibility / desirability.
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Old 05-06-2010, 04:04 PM
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thats pretty funny. Honestly, I think you would just end up with a burdensome fad...

and no one will want it until the PS3's resurgence 35 years from now when some retro-chic tech nerd decides it was the best device ever produced.



If you read about the way Bugattis were made, it may help you understand their collectibility / desirability.
I actually never want to see a car with that stuff on it...that's stupid. Hahaha. I was just thinking of some expensive things...hee hee. Couldn't pick diamonds, because apparently they are only valuable to us women.

But...awww man! Reading?? I am already currently doing that...RE-reading to help me with my 20 page research paper for my english class. Hahhaa. But gimmie a good link and maybe I'll check it out and understand it all. I mean, I can understand it is desired and all that, but that doesn't make it any better looking.

But I get it. Like when they make action figures of nerdy movies and TV shows, and even if they were made REALLY poorly in China and don't even look like the character they are supposed to be they are collected and kept in their plastic, untouched, and unplayed with so that the world can see one day that THAT person has the most awesome collection of memorabilia ever.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Type_57
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"I am extremely pleased to have found the new buyer for the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, one of the world's most significant and valuable automobiles that has been in a private collection and rarely seen during the past four decades," says David Gooding, president of Gooding & Company.
If I was scoring a sellers fee on it I'd be pretty f'in chuffed with selling a 30-40,000,000 car.


Just throwing it out there, there is some uuuuuugggggllllyyyyy ass art out there that people pay handsomely for. The bugatti is beautiful in its own way. I'd be proud to own it.
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The same week that a Picasso went for $106.5 Million; what recession?
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Bet Ralph Lauren bought it. Those Type 57SC's are amazing to look at, I'd just go out and sit in my garage and look at it if I had one.
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Bet Ralph Lauren bought it. Those Type 57SC's are amazing to look at, I'd just go out and sit in my garage and look at it if I had one.
Wow... not disagreeing with ya... just can't fathom it...

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