Back in 1989, Jerry Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys for $150 million. Instead of buying a team that he believes he could sell for at least $10 billion now, he could have held on to the money until today and bought a car for about the same price.
Mercedes-Benz confirmed that they recently sold the world’s most expensive car to a private owner for $142 million. That puts it in a league of its own, the most expensive car to have ever been sold and over twice as much as the previous record sale price of $70 million for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO back in 2018.
The Benz in demand was a rare 1955 SLR coupe. It probably doesn’t even have airbags and a backup camera.
Here’s a little more back story on the car; it was one of only two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe prototypes, and they were named after the chief engineer at the time, Rudolph Uhlenhaut. They could top out at a speed of 186 mph. The other Uhlenhaut Coupe will remain in the Mercedes-Benz private collection museum.
Here’s what Brian Rabold, VP of automotive intelligence at Hagerty, told CNN about this car.
“Their racing cars from the 1930s and 1950s are rare, and most are still owned by the factory, so any that come to market are highly sought after.”
One last bit of trivia to put this in perspective. When Mark Cuban became a billionaire, he purchased a Gulfstream private jet over the internet. He paid $40 million for it.
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