An ad for a car appeared on the American duPont Registry website, which its seller calls the most expensive Volvo in the world. He wants twenty million dollars, ie about 440 million crowns, for the blue V70 station wagon of the first generation, produced in the second half of the 1990s.
The reason is definitely not the condition of the car, because it is very far from the uncluttered specimen that someone forgot in the showroom. On the contrary, the photographs show a properly used, unwashed, relatively dozen station wagon with half-empty tires. After all, the dealer does not even give details about the engine.
License plates raise the price to practically unthinkable heights. This Volvo carries unique “numbers on request” with the inscription New York. “When the state of New York started offering such brands in the late 70’s, one of the inhabitants ordered it with the inscription New York,” the blog said. duPontu.
The metal plates, which actually correspond in their text to those that tourists buy in souvenir stalls, have remained in the family since the 1970s and the son of the original owner now sells them. Together with the old Volvo to which they are attached. But for those $ 20 million, he values the brand, which is supposed to be the only truly legal one with the word New York.
“When I suggested to my father to buy the brand at the time, I knew it would be exceptional. I just had no idea how exceptional it was then,” says the seller. Of course, the brand does not have to stay on Volvo, just like in the Czech Republic, the new owner can put it on any other car. The seller promises to provide a transcript of the brand at the New York Traffic Inspectorate at a price of twenty million.
If Volvo manages to sell, “New York” should probably become the most expensive brand in the world. German magazine auto motor and sport states that in 2008 a businessman in Abu Dhabi bought the simple number 1 brand for ten million euros (approximately 260 million crowns). about 13 million crowns).
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