Posted by Peter Brady on Tue 8th May 2007 at 07:11 AM, Filed in Luxury Auto
It’s a muscle pumped 1969 Dodge Charger made famous by the 80’s hit TV show The Dukes of Hazard and I just became the most expensive car ever sold, and it went on Ebay! In fact it actually beat the Ebay record for most expensive sold, easily beating a $4.9m private jet.
The lucky ex-owner was none other than one of the original actors John Schneider who sold the car to finance a new movie he is making. He bought the car 11 years ago for $5000 and spent a huge $100,000 restoring it. It had all the cast’s signatures on it and believe it or not it was never used on the original show?!
Unfortunately however the bidder has dropped out surprise surprise… Ebay sort it out!
Posted by Peter Brady on Wed 28th March 2007 at 08:08 AM, Filed in Luxury Auto
Gotham Dream Cars have recently launched a scheme known as Dream Share. The company specialise in renting out dream cars using a points based system with a number of different levels of membership available relating to how many hours you are allocated per year.
The Platinum membership for $9,000 offers 20 driving days, the Titanium for $18,000 gives you around 45 days and the Elite membership, for $27,000 gives you three months worth of driving time.
They currently have 17 motors in their fleet including; Aston Martin Vanquishes, Murcielagos, Gallardo Spyders, 360 Spiders, a Bentley GTC and more.
Posted by Peter Brady on Wed 1st November 2006 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Auto
If you would like the ability to drive a variety of luxury super cars without the hassle of insurance, maintenance and housing - what do you do?
It might be worth taking a look at Damon Hills P1 International which is reviewed on Iconic Gifts.
Alternatively, you could try a membership with ecurie25 which gives 30 to 40 days and 5,000 miles driving a £1 million fleet of cars that include the Ferrari F430 Spider, Lamborghini Murcielago, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and the Bentley Continental GT.
The real benefit here is that you can enjoy the cars while ecurie25 takes care of all the costs and hassles of outright ownership.
Membership ranges from £4,500 ($8,325) to £7,950 ($14,707).
Posted by Peter Brady on Thu 28th September 2006 at 07:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Auto
If you can bear the really irritating, obtrusive ads, check out the forbes.com most expensive cars of 2006.
The stunning Bugatti Veyron that we took a look at here tops the list but no mention of the Ferrari P4/5 which we reviewed here.
Interestingly, the majority of the list are drawn from auto companies outside the super car mainstream.
Posted by Peter Brady on Fri 25th August 2006 at 07:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Auto
We took a brief look at probably the most expensive and most desirable car on the planet here when we included the Bugatti Veyron in a list of potential gifts for a billionaire.
But the Bugatti now has a potential rival in the form of the Ferrari P4/5 (awful name in my opinion) which is in effect a suped up Ferrari Enzo. So how does it measure up.
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