It’s not only palatial properties that the prominent personalities are known to sink their teeth into, but many also have an affinity for shelling out crores on luxury cars — like billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. Amongst the exquisite fleet of automobiles from across the globe, the most expensive car in the world is worth a staggering $28 million…
Which is the most expensive car in the world?
The most expensive car in the world is the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail. According to DNA India, the opulent grand tourer car’s price is estimated to be a mammoth $28 million (approximately Rs 232 crore). It was designed by Rolls-Royce’s Coachbuild division. Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO of Roll-Royce Motor Cars, shared about Boat Tail on the iconic car company’s official website, “Boat Tail is our most ambitious project yet. Coachbuild, in collaboration with its clients, has ignored all preconceived notions of possibility and set a new standard. This is Bespoke at its purest.”
Rolls-Royce Boat Tail’s nautical aesthetic silhouette is inspired by J Class yachts of the 1920s and 1930s while reinterpreting Rolls-Royce’s 1910 Boat Tail car design. According to Daily Mail, the world’s most expensive car takes four years to be built by hand and has 1813 bespoke parts, designed and created from scratch. According to Tatler, the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail shares its chassis, engine, and underpinnings with the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Amongst the exquisite features attached to the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is the car deck which opens in a sweeping butterfly gesture, and makes way for a whimsical parasol. The custom-built automobile includes a double refrigerator housing Armand de Brignac (owned by Jay-Z and LVMH) champagne and is colour-matched to the bottles. Also included are rotating co*cktail tables with matching stool seats, featuring a set of Christofle crockery and cutlery (with Boat Tail's name engraved), according to Autocar.
According to Tatler, a Montblanc pen can be found in Boat Tail's glove box, stationed inside a hand-crafted case of aluminium and leather. A Bose sound system is also a key feature of the four-seater, left-hand drive convertible, using the car’s floor as a resonance chamber. The Rolls-Royce Boat Tail features Bovet Fleurier watches, a matching pair of men's and women's two-side timepieces, which include a tiny sculpture of the car in the dial. They can either be worn or within the fascia as car clocks. It took three years of partnership work between Rolls-Royce and Bovet in 1822 to create the time classics.
Here's an inside look at Rolls-Royce Boat Tail:
