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Porsche hybrid sports car an expensive ride

Porsche SE, the German automaker merging with Volkswagen AG, will sell the 918 Spyder hybrid sports car, its most expensive model ever, for $845,000 in North America and limit production to 918 vehicles. The first cars, available fo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The most expensive cars in the world

What’s the most expensive car you can buy right now? I thought it was probably the 1,001-horsepower Bugatti Veyron 16.4, which I seemed to recall cost a million dollars. It turns out the price is actually way more than that t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Uber, A More Expensive Car Service For iPhone, Headed to NYC

Uber, the San Francisco-based car service start-up, is expanding from California to New York City beginning "in a few short weeks," TechCrunch reports today. Do we need more cars? Do we need to pay more money for more cars? May [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

India: selling cars gets more expensive

It’s never been easy to sell luxury cars in India. The duties on fully assembled imported cars is 60 per cent (which effectively becomes 110 after VAT and local taxes), while the tax on locally-made cars with imported engines is 10 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Rolls-Royce develops electric car

Rolls-Royce used to boast that at 60mph in one of their cars, the loudest sound was the ticking of the clock. Now the world's best known luxury car is about to become even quieter, with the launch of the first fully electric model to [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Lexus Builds Insanely Expensive Car

It’ll be business as usual for this LFA, which starts at $375,000 before tacking on another $70,000 for the Nürburgring package, bringing the total to $445,000. With just 50 racing-inspired packages to be created, it’d b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Lexus LFA Supercar Gets More Expensive with Nurburgring Edit...

At $375,000, the Lexus LFA supercar was a sight to behold. Considering that it costs about four times as much as the competiting Nissan GT-R, you have to wonder why someone would want the most expensive road car that Toyota has ever prod [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Luxury car owner regrets letting friend drive - after £30,00...

Owner Edward Casher, 34, let Steven Jerrit behind the wheel of the car - despite neither man having third party insurance. Casher, of Ocean Drive, Edinburgh, was fined £265 and was given eight penalty points after his friend drove [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Mercedes SL65 AMG makes the most Expensive Car Insurance Rat...

Mercedes SL65 AMG, the most expensive car model for 2011 topped 2010, Porsche 911 Carrera GT2, for being the most expensive car to insure. According to the calculation done by Quadrant Information Services for Insure.com, the averag [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

New cars to cost more as MCD plans parking fee hike

Buying a car in the city is likely to get more expensive. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to double the night parking fee which a buyer has to pay while registering his vehicle. Those planning to buy cars priced betwe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

AB Group to service pre-owned ultra luxury cars

The AB Group is now keen on working with multi-brand luxury cars retailing. Based in Southern India, they are now also considering pre-owned cars sales servicing of luxury vehicles. They are looking forward to importing luxury cars for r [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Forbes lists world’s most expensive cars

Self-proclaimed ‘Capitalist Tool' Forbes has compiled a list of ten of the world's most expensive production cars. Using some old figures, a bit of guessing and a bout of amnesia, this celebrated marker of the modern world [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Forbe's Top 10 List of the Most Expensive Cars in the World

For most people a $50,000 car is well out of reach, while others happily spend double or triple of that amount on a ride. However, even those enthusiasts might not be so keen to whip out their checkbooks when confronted with the price ta [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Forbes: 10 most expensive cars in the world

THE Bentley Mulsanne has a deceptively smooth 505bhp engine and loads of hand-stitched leather. The base model costs US$285,500 (S$369,900). Without COE of course. But by Forbes' silver measure, the Mulsanne, like the $285,000 McLare [...]