The 10 Most Expensive Cars Ever Sold At Auction

Why would someone spend over a million dollars for a car? If it was for sentimental reasons, like finding a mint restoration of your first car, the auction price wouldn’t be so high. No, these cars are extremely rare, extremely high quality, or historically unique. The car shown here is a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K Roadster.

In total, around 342 500K’s were produced, however there were only 58 of the Roadster models. The vehicle is a massive grand touring car that featured a long front end and a comfortable cabin. The vehicles were outfitted with a 5.018-liter I8 engine that produced up to 160 horsepower which allowed these cars to hit speeds of 100 mph. It may not seem like much compared to todays standards, but back then those were mind-bending numbers. One example of the car was sold at a Christie’s auction in 1984 for the price of $1.45 million dollars, which works out to be $3,325,872 dollars today.

That’s a lot of money, but this car’s auction price ranked it at number ten. The other cars on the list brought in more money, as you’ll see at Money Inc.