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What is the most expensive car in the world and how can you get your hands on it without being the owner of Microsoft?    Well, the 1931 Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe is a reasonable candidate.  It sold for almost $9 million at auction in 1987.  Gems like that come along only rarely, but if you have the money and the opportunity, you need only spend a relatively a small fraction of that amount it to get a production supercar in your garage.   Spread betting is one of the few legitimate financial investment exercises that could potentially provide enough cash for the wheels of your dreams.  It’s a “marginal” activity, meaning that the bets you place don’t have to be huge to make a great deal of money.  There is a risk attached the practice that’s true, but it is perfectly possible to control the exposure to risk and limit your liability to lose.

Assuming you’ve correctly predicted how financial market indices will react on a given day and made your pile of Wonga, what supercar should you choose?

Here are a few thoughts and price tags:

1.  Bugatti Veyron – around £1.1 million

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world with a proven top speed of over 253 mph delivered by  a W16 engine—16 cylinders in 4 banks of 4 cylinders. Built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS, it’s named after racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 for the original Bugatti company.

2.  Ferrari Enzo – About £640,000

Sometimes also referred to as the F60, this 12-cylinder supercar is named after the company’s founder.  It uses F1 performance management technology like a carbon-fibre body, sequential shift transmission, and carbon-ceramic brake discs as well as gimmicks not allowed in F1 such as active aerodynamics where the rear spoiler is actuated by computer to maintain down force at high speeds. Continue reading →