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Most expensive cars ever sold at auction

The classic car market is showcasing no signs of slowing down. The world’s super-rich are only getting richer and classic cars seem to be one of the safest places to invest large sums of cash. That means request for the rarest cars money can buy has boomed in latest years, as our list of the most expensive cars in the world shows.

Below you’ll find ten most expensive cars ever sold at auction, the models that oligarchs, CEOs and dot.com billionaires choose as means to squirrel away their cash. The records for the most expensive cars in the world have been hammered with growing regularity of late and a few prestigious auction events seem to predominate the global market. The Bonhams sales at The Quail and at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Goodings & Company Pebble Beach auction and the RM Sotheby’s Auctions at Monterey and Maranello account for the lion’s share of the mega-money car sales we see each year.

Predictably, Ferrari predominates the list you see here, as it takes seven of the places in the top ten most expensive cars in the world. At one point, this list consisted of nine Ferrari models but there’sd presently representation from Mercedes, Alfa Romeo and Jaguar too. Tellingly, ever car on the most expensive cars in the world list has been sold since 2013, a good indicator of which way the classic car market is headed.

From the outside looking in, the sums involved seem unbelievable and the theatre in the salerooms as these multi-million Dollar deals are done is incredible. The idea of a scrape of your nose at an inopportune moment landing you a £10million 1950s Ferrari is enough to have anyone sitting on their arms.

The most expensive cars in the world

So here we go, below are the world’s most expensive cars sold at auction. We’re restricting this most expensive car list to auction sales as these can be lightly verified.

Cars are regularly rumoured to have switched forearms for even larger amounts in private sales. A Ferrari two hundred fifty GTO is believed to have been sold for £32million in two thousand thirteen but that was a private deal inbetween two collectors so it doesn’t make our list of auction records.

It’s a similar story with the one thousand nine hundred thirty six Bugatti Type-57 SC Atlantic that was reportedly sold to the Mullin Automotive Museum in California for inbetween $30million and $40million in 2010.

The models below are listed in switch sides order and we’ve given the prices in US dollars as that’s the currency in which the vast majority of them were bought.

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