James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5, as driven by Sean Connery in the movie Goldfinger, is up for auction at the end of this month and is expected to fetch around £4 million. But, even at this price, the DB5 is still some way off being amongst the world’s most expensive classic cars. Below is a list of the most expensive classic cars…and, even though one of them looks like a Batmobile, there’s not an ejector seat between them!

This classic Ferrari went under the hammer in May 2008 at the RM Auctions/Sotheby’s second annual “Ferrari Leggenda e Passione” and it’s eventual price tag was twice the amount auctioneers expected it to fetch.
The black Pininfarina designed beauty once belonged to Hollywood actor James Coburn and now resides in the garage of British Radio and Television presenter Chris Evans whose successful bid of £6.8 million made it, at the time, the most expensive car in auction history. And for any 80’s film buffs out there, this is the same model Cameron Frye wrote-off in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

One year after Evans’ purchase, an anonymous telephone bidder broke the record for the most expensive car in auction history by bidding $12.2 million (around £7.8million) for a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. One of only twenty two ever made, this particular car is thought to be one of the most competitively raced Ferraris ever built having been entered into over 20 races between 1958 and 1963, winning ten. 

Not to be outdone, that man Chris Evans was out to but himself a new Ferrari and plumped for a 1963 GTO, which he famously bought for himself as a present for attracting 9.5 million listeners to his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show! Another very limited edition, this was one of only 36 manufactured, with engine that can break 60mph in six seconds and record speeds of up to 173mph the 250 GTO is perhaps the ultimate Ferrari in looks, performance and heritage.