14 of the Most Outrageously Expensive Options for Ultra-Luxury Cars
Prices of exotic cars are already high. But sometimes you just gotta have that granite interior or gold-plated hood ornament.
When it comes to the most exotic and exclusive automobiles on the planet, their prices are like telephone numbers because they have seven digits. For instance, the McLaren Speedtail has a starting price of roughly $2.1 million, according to Car and Driver. As a recent list from the British website Leasing Options shows, optional equipment on one-percenter vehicles is proportionally costly. The money you’d pay for some trick features could buy you anything from a shiny fresh-out-of-the-box smartphone to a new house.
As you can tell from the list, some of these options pertain to cars from years past, such as the Ferrari 458. That doesn’t change the fact that the prices Leasing Options determined (then converted to U.S. dollars; we had to convert some on our own) are so high that you can get a nosebleed just from looking at them.
Not surprisingly, the most expensive option was available on the Bugatti Veyron super-ultra-mega-hypercar. According to Leasing Options, getting the quad-turbo W16 monster with unpainted carbon fiber bodywork would take $304,530 out of your Cayman Islands bank account. With that kind of money, you could fly first-class from London to L.A….35 times. That’s almost enough to make the Liquid Metal paint job that Porsche offered on the 918 Spyder look like a bargain at $67,153. Almost.
Rolls-Royce has the most entries on the list with four. The “most affordable” one (and we use that term loosely) is a $9,100 gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament. Let’s face it, if you’re being chauffeured around in a Rolls-Royce without one of those, you might as well be riding in the back of a mule-drawn rickshaw, right?
With the “Starlight” headliner, you can have a sky full of stars wherever you go – and 12,000 fewer dollars burning a hole in your pocket. If you’re fine with a normal headliner in your Rolls, you can use that dough as a down payment on the $20,662 beverage cabinet for your bespoke ultra-lux land yacht.
At the other end of the spectrum is the Phantom’s rear seat divider at $34,716. Privacy seems to be a commodity these days. Rolls-Royce knows that…and how to charge for it.
Of course, Bentley made the cut, too. It offers a Breitling clock in the Bentayga that adds $171,402 to its already lofty price. Leasing Options figured out that for that same amount of money, you could buy more than 40,000 pints of beer. Then again, you don’t need a fancy clock to know it’s always five o’clock somewhere.
In partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre, Aston Martin offered its own expensive timepiece. The Transponder watch allowed the wearer to unlock their Bond car with their fancy Swiss watch. That kind of bragging came at a high price: more than $32,000.
Bentley’s and Rolls-Royce’s German rival Mercedes-Maybach got on the list, as well. Drinking champagne out of their special flutes comes with a hard-to-swallow price tag of $3,376. If a herds-worth of leather and a forest of wood veneers isn’t opulent enough, you can upgrade the interior trim to real granite for $64,276.
The Lexus LS may not be in the same stratosphere of luxury as England’s finest, but that didn’t stop it from appearing on Leasing Options‘s list. You can outfit its LS flagship with a $17,000+ Executive Package that includes heated and ventilated reclining rear seats.
Even little things can cost a lot when you have specific tastes. The custom Louis Vuitton luggage designed to fit in the BMW i8 has a retail price to coordinate with the high-dollar hybrid: more than $21,000. Do you just have to have the air vents in your Porsche 911 in a certain color? Be prepared to shell out $1,818 for them. Back when the Ferrari 458 was still in dealerships, you could order the mid-engine exotic with seatbelts in the same color as the body, as long as you didn’t mind paying an additional $974. We understand wanting a certain look, but we also know Ferraris are meant for going fast, which burns through tires quickly. We’d rather have that money left over for new rubber. Safety first. Color-coordination second.
Images: Leasing Options
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