Australian buys Worlds most expensive car

[Blue Supra]

Interesting, seems the recession hasnt bit everyone...

Australian pays $4m to drive Aston Martin One-77 | National News | News.com.au

Such a nice car.

[Roentgen]

I wonder if he'll be nice enough to lend it to NZ for their annual Big Boys Toys show...

The best we've had so far was a Koenigsegg CCX. Can't wait for something even better!

[NicFromLA]

Eh, I'd rather have a DBS and the cash in my pocket.

Also, I'm pretty sure the Veyron and even the Enzo were built in small numbers in RHD.

[NSXType-R]

Well I'm not surprised.

Someone had to buy the car.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Well I'm not surprised.

Someone had to buy the car.

Some-77

[NSXType-R]

Some-77

How many are they making again?

Perhaps the profit margin is much higher than the Veyron?

The bean counters at VW do not know how to count beans!

[LeonOfTheDead]

How many are they making again?

Perhaps the profit margin is much higher than the Veyron?

The bean counters at VW do not know how to count beans!

They declared 77 cars were going to be made, with all of them being highly different between each other due to customization.
Apart from what does that mean, 77 cars are the number.
Don't know if the car will be profitable, maybe "just a little", but it's surely an excellent ad campaign.
As a reference, Bugatti reportedly loses 4.000.000 € on each Veyron (standard one), Ferrari was doing about 250.000 € on each Enzo (I read it somewhere), while Pagani earns about 400.000 € on each Zonda (figures obtained dividing the annual profit by the cars made).

[MMC12]

Eheh I have seen the One-77 and it is really one of the most beautiful supercar of ever, however 4 milion of $... But why this australian owner has payed two times the real price of the car?
Bye

[Blue Supra]

that 4 mil is probably including the $120,000 stamp suty, then the extra $200,000 luxury car tax, then the import tax, then the 'we're the government and tax you on a tax tax' then the 10%GST... probaly a mill in BS charged before it even hits the road.

Remeber the AUD is buys roughly 50 EURO at the moment.

[PRC777]

Iwas just doing a currency conversion from $4,000,000 AUD, to many other currecies and I came up with this (as of today; currency fluctuates daily):
4,000,000 AUD= 1,971,014.62 British Pounds
3,473,528.75 Canadian Dollars
20,186,336.00 Chinese Yuan
2,209,405.50 European Euros
292,236,032.00 Japanese Yen
2,957,705.00 U.S. Dollars...
I can't even fathom paying so much money for this car... especially if I were a Japanese citizen!

[LeonOfTheDead]

I got a local newspaper, perhaps I will fin it again later, with a long interview with Mr Pagani, and about his business.
The profits of the two companies were quoted, both between 6 and 7 Millions €.
Now I don't know the exact English word, but in Italian a "profit" is what stay in your pocket after you paid taxes, salaries, costs and so on.

Net profit perhaps?

Assuming this is correct, that's why I simply divided the number.

From another article I remember reading that Ferrari's merchandise was good for about 3 M € each year, but I can't see what figure this is, a profit (or net) or what else.
Thing is Pagani's merchandise isn't even remotely near Ferrari's one.
When I asked for the 1:43 scale model of the Zonda F, they had to check if they had another one which wasn't that exposed on the window. I never saw a dude with a Pagani t-shirt, and there are still people in Modena (11 km away from Pagani's factory) who don't know what it is, and when they see one they ask "which Ferrari is that?!".