Most expensive cars in the world

Not content with spending 'only a few hundred thousand pounds on a car? You'll be wanting to blow a multi-million pound sum on one of the most expensive cars in the world. 

Most can only dream of owning expensive supercars or luxury models. The average cost of a new car is around £40,000, but that probably wouldn't buy a new door mirror for the world's most expensive cars in this list.

These expensive cars are beyond sports cars and supercars, best described as either 'hypercars' or 'megacars'. Most are outlandish, powerful and viscerally exciting models with top speeds well over 200mph. Some also make the list of the fastest cars in the world. 

Many of the world's most expensive cars are one-offs or few-offs and are bespoke and commissioned for well-heeled owners. You certainly won't fail to be noticed if you cruise the streets in them, but many will have been stashed away in the owners' private garages to protect them from prying eyes. Sadly, most of these cars can no longer be purchased, but occasionally pop up at auction. 

Most expensive cars in the world

1. Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail
2. Rolls-Royce Boat Tail
3. Bugatti La Voiture Noire
4. Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta
5. Rolls-Royce Sweptail
6. Bugatti Chiron Profilée
7. Bugatti Centodieci
8. Red Bull RB17
9. Pagani Huayra Codalunga
10. Pagani Huayra Imola

1. Rolls-Royce Drop Tail

Price: Up to £25 million (est)

It should come as no surprise that Rolls-Royce tops this list. 

The brand is the byword for luxurious and expensive motoring, and as of 2025, the Droptail is the most expensive of the lot. While it's not exactly advertised with a price tag, such is the bespoke nature of its embellishment process, you can expect little change from £25 million if you're the financially endowed individual who commissions one.

Just four of these exquisite V12-powered cars will be built. The one pictured here is the first, the La Rose Noire Droptail – the name, and the details of its design, are inspired by the Black Baccara rose. Unusually for a Roller, it's a two-seater – the first one the brand has made in recent years – with a folding hard top.

The centrepiece is a ridiculously complicated piece of woodwork, consisting of 1603 pieces of Black Sycamore veneer arranged in triangles. Buying one gets you a one-off Audemars Piguet timepiece integrated into the dashboard. It's removable, so you can wear it as a watch while the car gets its MOT.

2. Rolls-Royce Boat Tail

Price: £22 million (est)

Following the Droptail is the Boat Tail, an incredibly bespoke, ultra-luxurious, expensive waft mobile. 

The Boat Tail debuted in 2023 and is still the most expensive model the British marque has produced. Its moniker referred to the stern of a J-class yacht. 

Under its lengthy bonnet was the usual 563bhp 6.75-litre V12 as found in the Phantom. Likewise, the Boat Tail also got the Phantom's safety gizmos, but that was it. The rest was bespoke and featured 1,813 new parts. Only three cars were produced although the Boat Tail can still be explored on the Rolls-Royce website. 

3. Bugatti La Voiture Noire

Price: £10.4 million (est)

One of the many derivatives of the Chiron, the La Voiture Noire is a (very expensive) look to the past that remains mechanically modern.  

The Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic was handsome, and the La Voiture Noire nodded to the one owned by Jean Bugatti, a car that disappeared during World War II. Its name translates to "The Black Car", fitting considering its stealthy physique. 

The La Voiture Noire featured a single-piece carbon fibre body and boasted six tailpipes, which led to Bugatti's W16 powerplant. Similarly, the Havan Brown grain leather interior was inspired by the Atlantic. Only one La Voiture Noire was made.

4. Pagani Zonda HP Barchetta

Price: £13.4 million

While built in 2018, the Zonda HP Barchetta remains one of the world's most expensive cars.

789bhp comes from a 6.0-litre biturbo V12 mated to a six-speed manual gearbox, alongside rear-wheel drive and a mechanical locking diff. 

The HP Barchetta has large ventilated discs with four-piston calipers at the rear and six-piston ones up front. Its design is very Hot Wheels; there's no roof, but there is a roof scoop (oddly), the wheel fairings are made from carbon fibre and it has a wraparound windscreen. Overall, it weighs 1,250kg, meaning an incredible power to weight. 

5. Rolls-Royce Sweptail

Price: £10 million

Yet another Rolls-Royce makes our list, this time in the form of the stunning hard-top Sweptail.

When buying a new car, buyers can often choose from colours, alloy wheels or interior trinkets. Things that add a little extra to the overall cost. But when a Hong Kong businessman ordered a Phantom Coupe, he specced a bespoke interior and body. Something that took four years for Rolls-Royce to build. 

Rolls-Royce fitted a large panoramic roof, which is one of the biggest and most expensive ever fitted to a car. Inside is polished open-pore Paldao and Macassar Ebony wood. 

6. Bugatti Chiron Profilée

Price: £8.4 million

Sadly, you can forget about buying the Bugatti Chiron Profilée unless it pops up at auction. 

This one-off Chiron wasn't built for a particular customer but was instead a response to customers who desired the performance of a Pur Sport with road comfort. 

While it would've sold, all 500 Chiron's it was based on had been sold, meaning only one Profilée could be built. If somehow you get your hands on it, remember this is the last car to feature Bugatti's legendary W16 engine. 

7. Bugatti Centodieci

Price: £7 million (est)

Oh look, it's another Bugatti! Like the Chiron Profilée, this model pays homage to another legendary Bugatti, in this case, the EB110 Supersport.

The Centodieci also celebrated the company's 110th birthday. Bugatti gave it an entirely new roofline, a higher rear and a lower front to the Chiron. Likewise, a smaller horseshoe grille matches the EB110's, while five round air intakes are positioned at each side aft of the doors. There's no mechanical difference between it and

It still has the Chiron's 8.0-litre W16, which produces 1,578bhp, meaning a 240mph top speed. Only 10 examples were built. 

8. Red Bull RB17

Price: £6 million (est)

It's typical - you wait years for a hypercar from F1 design wizard Adrian Newey, and then two come along at once. 

Well, almost. Having had quite a lot of input into the Aston Martin Valykrie when the brand sponsored the Red Bull F1 team, Adrian Newey has since designed the Red Bull RB17 track-only hypercar. Awkwardly, he left Red Bull last year and went to, would you believe it, Aston Martin, but he'll still be carrying on with his pet project. 

Like the Valkyrie, it's powered by a specially developed engine from Cosworth, although it's a V10, rather than a V12. The redline is an astonishing 15,000rpm, and the engine develops 1,000PS on its own, with a hybrid system bringing an additional 200PS to the table. That sounds relatively sedate compared to some modern hypercars, but most of them weight a lot more than the RB17, which is set to be only around 1,000kg. 

It's roughly double the price of the Valkyrie, earning the RB17 a place on this list. 

9. Pagani Huayra Codalunga

Price: from £5.9 million

Described as "a grand complication on wheels", the Pagani Huayra Codalunga mirrors the ethos of ludicrously expensive, hand-built watches. 

Indeed, the department of Pagani that makes bespoke models is called Grande Complicazioni, a nod to horology. Every aspect of the Codalunga was designed to wow.

Only five examples of the Huayra Codalunga were made, the first stemming from a client who wanted a long-tail version of the Huayra Coupe. That was back in 2018, and it took years to become a reality. Inspiration came from the Italian coachbuilders and racing cars of the 1960s, although they didn't have 840PS V12 engines with some 1100Nm of torque and a titanium exhaust system.

10. Pagani Imola

Price: From £5 million

No Pagani car is restrained or slow, but even among a pantheon of ludicrous hypercars, the Pagani Imola is bonkers.

It's hugely over the top, with the trademark AMG 6.0-litre V12 producing 850PS and six (!) titanium exhaust tailpipes announcing its arrival.

Naturally, it easily tops 200mph, and has an aero package that generates 600kg of downforce. Only eight were created. Well, we think so anyway – this was one of those "if you had to ask..." cars where the actual price was somewhat unclear, but £4.5 million is an educated guess, based on Pagani's other pricey motors.