BUGATTI’S “LA VOITURE NOIRE” IS THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE NEW CAR & THERE'S ONLY ONE. (IT COSTS HOW MUCH?!)

NEWSFLASH! Bugatti makes VERY expensive cars. The Bugatti Chiron costs about $3 million, but that’s a bargain compared to their latest new model. 

Bugatti’s La Voiture Noire costs about $19 million (including tax.) Before taxes, the car costs $12.5 million. (That’s a LOT of tax!)

La Voiture Noire is THE most expensive new car ever sold and only a single one will be made for an anonymous buyer. It’s someone with an “attachment” to the brand, the automaker said. And likely a billionaire. (Ralph Lauren? Jerry Seinfeld?)

La Voiture Noire is designed to recall the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic of the 1930s. Just four of those cars were made and they’re among the most valuable cars in the world today, worth in excess $50 million, according to Hagerty Insurance, a company that tracks collector car values. 

One of those cars became known as “La Voiture Noire” which means simply, the black car. Only three are known to survive –the fourth seems to have disappeared shortly before the German invasion of France during World War II.

(Photo, Bugatti; via CNN)

A $3.2 MILLION COMIC BOOK + A $38.1 MILLION CAR

The World’s Most Expensive Comic Book
An original Superman comic, sold for 10 cents at a West Virginia newsstand in 1938, was purchased at auction Sunday night for $3.2 million, making it the most expensive comic book ever sold. The copy of Action Comics No. 1, which features a caped Superman lifting an automobile, was sold on EBay by Darren Adams of Pristine Comics, above. The previous record for a comic book was $2.1 million, for another Action Comics No. 1, sold by Nicolas Cage in 2011 to assist paying his massive debts. Cage purchased the comic in 1997 for $110,000. (FYI, Nic was cast as Superman in Tim Burton’s ill-fated, never produced filmSuperman Lives and he named his son Kal-El, Superman’s birth name.)

Action Comic No. 1 had an initial print run of 200,000 copies, but only 100 or so survived, and most of those have had some restoration work done to them. Purchased off a newsstand by a man from West Virginia in 1938, it was stored in a cedar chest “at high altitude” for four decades. A couple of owners and more than 30 years later, Darren Adams purchased it for seven figures. He first saw the copy in a bank vault.

“It wasn’t just a copy of Action Comics No. 1. It was THE copy. I was floored. The emotion was overwhelming.”

Adams and EBay are donating 1% of the sale price to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation for spinal-cord injury and paralysis research.

The Most Expensive Car Ever Sold At Auction
The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta, reportedly one of only 39 made, sold for $38,115,000 at Bonhams in England. The sale easily topped the previous record of any car ever sold at auction – $30 million for a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R F1 single-seat racer, sold last year at Bonhams. The Ferrari GTO was developed to race in the 1962 3-liter class FIA GT World Championship series, but it was involved in a crash early in its life that killed the driver, and was subsequently repaired. Experts say a crash involving a Ferrari of its type doesn’t decrease the value – it appears to only to increase the mystique. BTW, for about the same money you can get a used Gulfstream G550 (for around $33 Million) and with the $5 Million or so leftover you could buy a 2014 Lamborghini Veneno Roadster. Just sayin’.