Most expensive cars to buy in 2025
You know how it is. You’re bored and you’re thinking about your inevitable big lottery win. You’ve figured out where all your houses are going to be, how many Le Creuset casserole dishes you’ll need to buy, the exact look on the faces of all the dreadful ex-partners and old bosses when you tell them, and… what are we talking about, again?
If at any point during that daydream you’ve turned to ditching your cheap car and the fancy cars you’ll buy, this list is for you.
We’ve curated 10 of the rarest and most expensive cars you can buy(ish) in 2025. It’s not quite as simple as you might think, because with a stratospheric budget you have options way beyond what you’ll find in a showroom.
And, to be honest, most of them are limited production runs that have basically already sold out. Still, with your new found mega wealth you might be able to get hold of one. We’ve avoided duplicating manufacturers here, otherwise it’d be like a Sheikh’s car park - just a big row of unfathomable Bugattis and Rolls-Royces. Let's go...
Most expensive cars to buy in 2025 |
1. Rolls-Royce Droptail
Price: £25,000,000
Reason to buy: The most exclusive Rolls-Royce ever made.
Reason to avoid: You’ll still look like a market trader done good.
Can a car ever be worth £25,000,000? What about if said car is one of four specially commissioned and entirely hand-built Rolls-Royces. No? Okay, but you have to admit that the Rolls Royce Droptail is pretty impressive.
A roadster unveiled in August 2023, only four will ever be made, each designed for its owner but inspired by something specific, uniquely pretentious and uniquely British. Like the “La Rose Noire” one, inspired by the Black Baccara rose found in… France. Each one gets a 600-horsepower 6.75-litre twin-turbo V12, powered by a special elixir extracted from the tears of actual angels. We made that up.
2. Pagani Huayra Codalunga Speedster
Price: £6,000,000+
Reason to buy: Rare convertible version of Pagani’s custom shop longtail coupe.
Reason to avoid: People might shout “CODALUNGA, DUDE!” at you like a Ninja Turtle.
In 2022, Italian hypercar maker Pagani unveiled the Huayra Codalunga, a ‘longtail’ coupe with a price of about £6,000,000 a piece.
Only five were made and as with all these things, every one sold immediately. Imagine, then, that you’re one of those five people and you’re sat eating your bowl of truffles and someone tells you that a convertible version has been announced. You’d be raging, right? Ten Speedsters will be made, all with the same Mercedes-AMG 6.0-litre twin turbo V12 and costing way north of £6,000,000. Probably.
3. Bugatti W16 Mistral
Price: £5,000,000
Reason to buy: It’s the last car with Bugatti’s legendary W16 engine.
Reason to avoid: “It’s just a fancy VW, innit!”
Only 99 Bugatti W16 Mistrals will be made and all of them are already sold. It isn’t just the price, or the unique design, or the 1600PS, or the 261mph top speed that's special about the Mistral… it’s that this is the LAST time Bugatti will use the groundbreaking 8.0-litre, 16-cylinder quad-turbo engine in a production car.
It’s the same basic engine that Bugatti introduced in the Veyron in 2005, a car that genuinely shifted what we thought was possible from a performance car. RIP.
4. Ferrari F80
Price: £3,100,000
Reason to buy: It’s a top-of-the-line Ferrari, for flip’s sake.
Reason to avoid: Have you seen how ugly it is?
Limited to 799 copies (albeit, this is one of those times when you wonder whether that’s just how many Ferrari reckons they can sell), the Ferrari F80 is a hybrid hypercar with stratospheric numbers. It has a 3.0-litre V6 with THREE electric motors, which essentially work as zero-emissions turbochargers.
The result is 1200PS, making it the most powerful production car Ferrari has ever made. It hits 124mph from a standstill in 5.7 seconds. Replacing the LaFerrari and tracing its heritage back to the Ferrari F40, it represents the very best Ferrari is capable of right now…apart from design, we'd argue...
5. Lamborghini Fenomeno
Price: £3,000,000
Reason to buy: There’s a chance it’s a spaceship.
Reason to avoid: Small fuel tank and terrible economy might leave you stranded in space.
The Fenomeno is part of a special group of cars that Lamborghini makes in limited numbers to show off the best that it can do, both in engineering and design terms. It’s called the “Few Off” programme.
Only 29 Lamborghini Fenemenos will be made and they are, of course, already sold. It has the most powerful V12 in the company’s history, augmented by three electric motors for a 1080PS total.
Here’s a quote from Lamborghini: "We have created a hyper-elegant design piece that is as refined and sophisticated as it is both athletic and essential. It is an unexpectedly elegant spaceship." To confirm, it’s not an actual spaceship… we assume. Lamborghini put the phone down when we asked.
6. Gordon Murray T.50
Price: £2,500,000
Reason to buy: It’s a modern day McLaren F1, basically.
Reason to avoid: Gordon who?
Okay, so we’re being a bit facetious there - everyone knows who Gordon Murray is, right? Owner of one of the UK’s last surviving moustaches, Murray redefined what a supercar could be when he designed the original McLaren F1 in 1992, with its central driver’s seat and engine bay lined in ACTUAL gold.
The T.50 is a modern interpretation, complete with the same middle-set driving position, a non-turbo V12 engine that revs beyond 12,000rpm and a kerb weight below one tonne. All 100 have already been sold, so if you want one, you’ll have to contact an owner and name your price.
7. McLaren W1
Price: £2,000,000
Reason to buy: It’s a top-of-the-line McLaren, for flip’s sake.
Reason to avoid: You can still say “I own a McLaren” with a £70,000 McLaren 12C.
Another ‘limited edition’, this time just 399 (allowing you to mercilessly mock your Ferrari F80-owning chums), the McLaren W1 was announced in 2024 and all have been sold already - despite not one being released to a buyer, yet.
Like the Ferrari F80, it’s a hybrid, albeit it only has the one electric motor working with the 4.0-litre V8 petrol engine. Total power exceeds the Ferrari’s at 1275PS, but the performance is basically identical - never has a YouTube drag race been so inevitable.
Like all the McLarens, the W1 is built around a carbon fibre tub, has anhedral doors and is heavily influenced by McLaren’s F1 learnings. In the same way that a Chef Ramsey microwave lasagne is heavily influenced by learnings at Claridge's. Exactly the same way.
8. Aston Martin Valhalla
Price: £850,000
Reason to buy: The coolest name any car has had since the Mazda Bongo Friendee.
Reason to avoid: All Aston Martins look basically the same these days, right?
The usual stuff about a £1,000,000-odd, 1000PS-odd plug-in hybrid hypercar apply here: influenced by F1, more aerodynamic than that stone your dad skimmed across Lake Windermere in 1998, more carbon in it than an abandoned student barbecue.
Unveiled all the way back in 2019, just 999 Aston Martin Valhallas are scheduled to be made, but not one has actually been delivered yet. Apparently that’s happening before Christmas. Or maybe they’re waiting for another James Bond film to come out, for the usual free marketing hit.
9. Mercedes-Maybach S-Class
Price: £260,000
Reason to buy: The absolute best way of getting to the Travelodge after you’ve won X-Factor.
Reason to avoid: Constant phone calls from rap producers about borrowing it.
Yep, Maybach still exists. Surprised? Relaunched as a standalone uber-luxury brand in the early 2000s, it was killed off after a decade because the market for massively over-styled, massively overpriced S-Classes wasn’t that massive, it transpired.
A few years after that, it essentially became a trim level for the poshest Mercedes-Benzes, which means that today, the most expensive Mercedes saloon you can buy is the Maybach S-Class. Imagine the finest Turkish barber you’ve ever been to and take away the low taper fade, and that’s what sitting in the back of a Mercedes-Maybach S580 feels like.
10. Porsche 911 Spirit 70
Price: £190,000
Reason to buy: It’s a rare Porsche 911
Reason to avoid: The worst bonnet sticker you’ve ever seen, including on any MINI.
As the name gives away, the Porsche 911 Spirit 70 is a Porsche 911 designed to evoke the decade of terrible trousers, trade union strikes, power cuts and harrowing Space Hopper accidents.
Thankfully, its mechanicals are rooted in 2025, so it features a 541PS six-cylinder engine with an electric turbo - of sorts - driving the rear wheels. All that power going backwards means if you turn off the traction control, you’re never too far away from a dramatic tailspin… much like the fabric of 1970s society. And whatever you do, as soon as you collect your new '70s-style 911, immediately peel off the sub-Temu bonnet sticker.
What is the most expensive car ever sold?
You might think that the most expensive car ever sold is a Ferrari - the 250 GTO is famous for making huge money at auctions. But in fact, the record belongs to a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, which sold for 135,000,000 euros in 2022. It was almost three times the amount that the previous record holder - a 250 GTO - had sold for in 2018. Only two Uhlenhauts were made in 1955, and only one was put up for sale by Mercedes-Benz. The other one is in a German museum.
Who owns the most valuable fleet of cars in the world?
The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, is believed to have the world’s most expensive car collection. His 7,000-or-so cars are estimated to be worth around £4bn. The collection includes multiple versions of legendary cars like the Ferrari F40, McLaren F1, and the Bugatti EB110, as well as various one-off concept cars; the Sultan reportedly owns the BMW Nazca M12 unveiled at the 1991 Geneva Motor Show, and a specifically commissioned wagon based on the Lamborghini LM002 pick-up.
What is the most expensive production car on sale in the UK?
The most expensive ‘regular’ production car - as in, not produced in limited numbers, and that anyone with the means can walk into a showroom and order - is the Rolls-Royce Phantom Extended. Its starting price is around £500,000. Albeit, that really is just a starting price for a car you can customise to your little heart’s content.
