The 5 strangest:
In this automobile world, being a rare car can also mean being one of the most expensive, depending on its design, mechanics, labor, among other factors.
In this list we will present you all kinds of cars, whose designs attract attention due to their particular style, they can be extravagant, strange, ugly and funny.
Next, you will know 5 of the strangest, rarest or rarest cars that you will find through the history of vehicles.
- Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe
Ettore Bugatti had planned to build 25 examples of the Royale, and sell them to royalty to make it the most luxurious car.
But even European royalty was not going to be able to buy such cars during the Great Depression, and Bugatti was only able to sell three of the six made.
It was sold along with the 41,150 by L’Ebe Bugatti in the summer of 1950 to American Le Mans driver Briggs Cunningham for 200,000 francs (US$571) plus a couple of new General Electric refrigerators, then unavailable. available in postwar France.
Restoration costs would bring the total cost to about 1 million francs, or US$2,858 per car. These models were delivered to the United States in January 1951.
- Lamborghini Reventon
You probably forgot about the Lamborghini Reventon. We don’t blame you. Anytime a company like Lamborghini builds a limited-edition car that you can never see, let alone afford, you tend to forget about them.
The Lamborghini Reventón is a super sports car produced by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini between 2007 and 2010.
It was first shown at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. It was the most powerful Lamborghini built until 2009.
It cost about $1.5 million when it was new, and looking back, it may have been too much. The car is mechanically identical to the Murciélago LP640.
This means that power comes from a 6.5-liter V12 mated to a six-speed electronic gear sequential transmission. The car had 650 horsepower and could hit 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.
- Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Roadster
The Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Roadster was one of the first convertibles made by the company with an automatic transmission.
It was the fusion of Formula 1 racing technology and legendary SLR racing tradition.
The SLR has a central V8 front engine with a displacement of 5,440 cc, equipped with a volumetric compressor for each bank of cylinders, which yields 626 CV of maximum power.
Its body has a convertible version since September 2007.
It can accelerate from 0 to 100 in 3.8 seconds, from 0 to 200 in 9.9 seconds, and from 0 to 300 in 30.6 seconds. Its top speed exceeds 333 km/h.
- Maybach Exelero
The Maybach Exelero is probably one of the most extravagant and spectacular machines ever created and its reason for being is no less.
Far from the exclusivity that the fact of being a unique prototype gives it, the Maybach Exelero draws attention for its huge front hood, under which hides a whole 5,908 cm3 bi-turbo V12 that develops 700 CV at 5,000 rpm and the huge figure of 1,020 Nm of maximum torque at 2,500 rpm.
It was the latest release from German luxury car maker Maybach, and was the subject of an auction worth around $8 million.
- Acura NSX
A mid-engine, two-seater sports car manufactured by Honda between 1990 and 2005 offering different versions such as the coupe and targa. In the US and Hong Kong it was sold under the Acura brand.
When it went on sale in 1990, the NSX’s exotic combination of materials and experience was like nothing else on sale and certainly nothing else for the money.
A successor was planned for 2010, powered by a V10 engine, but was scrapped by the same economic downturn that caused the company to quit F1.
During its heyday, between 1990 and 2005, only a hundred cars were produced on the line per year.
I return in 2017 to give the Acura brand a lift, which is coming in free fall.
