The Lamborghini Veneno Roadster is a barely street-
legal racer that goes for a cool $4.5 million.
As was the mysterious Maltese Falcon to film noir
detective Sam Spade, the costliest cars in the world
are indeed, “The stuff dreams are made of.
With sticker prices that are beyond the reach of all
but the wealthiest royals, tycoons, and oligarchs,
many of today’s hypercars come from uber-exotic
brands not familiar to mere motorists, like Arash,
Mazzanti, and Zenvo, with others being the ultimate
expression of motoring from more familiar names
like Ferrari and Aston Martin. Any of them make
garden-variety BMWs and Bentleys seem cheap by
comparison.They’re inarguably rolling works of art, expressively
sculpted with unparalleled curb appeal, yet can
outperform most anything on four wheels. To be
sure, these are no mere touring cars. Each ride on
race-ready underpinnings, and pack powerful
engines that seal all bragging rights with staggering
horsepower ratings that can run – and we do mean
run – well in excess of 1,000 galloping ponies. They
are the ultimate attention-grabbers.
But with limited production runs that are often
spoken for long before the first model is built, they
might as well be fabricated from pure
“unobtainium.” You’ll likely never so much as see
one in person, unless perhaps you’re a doorman at
some ultra-swank hotel in Doha, Shanghai, Abu
Dhabi, or maybe Beverly Hills. Some, purchased for
future appreciation, may rarely, if ever, venture
beyond the doors of a storage facility that holds its
owner’s extended fleet of precious metal.
