The rarest road cars ever built

Slide of Occasionally, manufacturers give us limited runs of very special cars, exclusive to those who have piles of cash to part with. Whether that was their intention, or something went sour along the way to mass production, here’s our pick of the world’s rarest road cars: Slide of Bugatti EB 110: 134 examples In 1987, Ferrari F40 posters were strewn on bedroom walls all over the world — it was a race car for the road. 1991 arrived, and Bugatti, a company that last released a car in 1956, teased its sleek EB110. On paper, the F40 was still faster but the EB110 looked like an extraterrestrial spacecraft with all the cooling ducts and grooved bodywork — it had its own league, but it was too expensive for its time. From 1991 to 1995, just 134 cars were built in total. Bugatti went bankrupt just two years after production stopped, and was subsequently swallowed up by Volkswagen. Slide of Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder: 106 Considered to be one of the most collectable cars of all time, the California Spyder has deep-pocketed buyers flocking to auction houses to part with around $18m when one pops up on a rare occasion. Only 106 were made, with 56 cars being short wheelbase guises and the other 50 were long wheel base cars. Slide of McLaren F1: 106 The F1 remains to be one of the most iconic supercars ever made, and you would be lucky to see one driving around as only 106 cars were built. Through some clever bodywork sculpture, aerodynamic tweaking and a 620bhp naturally aspirated engine, the F1 holds the record for being the world’s quickest naturally aspirated car with its remarkable 240mph top speed. Slide of McLaren Speedtail: 106 Paying homage to the F1 with its three-seat layout is the Speedtail, one of McLaren’s more recent projects. It trumps the F1’s top speed with the help of modern technology, a NASA testing facility and turbochargers, but only by 10mph. Yet again, McLaren created an exclusive car with just 106 units.  Slide of Pagani Huayra: 100 On Pirelli tyres, the Huayra is capable of 1.66g of lateral acceleration: flat out, it’ll hit 238mph. Pagani created a few variants of the Huayra, including a roadster, but in total only 100 cars were ever made. When first released in 2011, the base car was priced from £820,000 but this has now jumped to north of £1.5m. Slide of Consulier Industries Consulier GTP: 83 Mosler is more known now for its MT900 race car than its earlier production cars. This American car may not have looked as striking as a Lamborghini or Ferrari, but the firm claimed that in factory tests it could shame a Porsche 911, Chevrolet Corvette and Lotus Esprit when it came to the twisties. Consulier Industries then became Mosler in 1993 and various other iterations of the GTP were made such as the Intruder and Raptor. It’s believed that just 83 cars were made. Slide of MG XPower SV and SV-R: 82 MG Rover purchased Italian firm Qvale which meant that the Qvale Magusta, formerly known as the DeTomaso Bigua, would become the base for MG’s new X80 project. The X80, like the Bigua, would use Ford Mustang parts, and MG later changed the name to the XPower SV. Peter Stevens, designer of the McLaren F1, was then hired to tweak the production car to look more sinister than the concept. MG later released a more powerful SV-R guise of which only 42 were made, the other 40 being the standard car. Slide of Tucker ’48: 51 Also known as Torpedo, its prototype name, the 48 was famous for its groovy centralised headlight which rotated when the wheel was turned. The 48 wasn’t intended to be a limited run but the company’s Accessories Program left a significant scar on its reputation. After the war, demand for new cars was greater than supply and preference was given to veterans. Tucker, however, had a programme which stated that those who bought Tucker accessories would be given a definite spot for a car. This was investigated by various U.S officials and Tucker was accused of crime. The charges were later dropped, but Tucker’s reputation was squashed. Production stopped after just 51 cars. Slide of Maserati MC12: 50 The mid-2000s gave us plenty of exclusive cars such as the Mercedes-Benz SLR, Pagani Zonda and Maserati MC12. Like many others, the MC12 was built to homologate the model for GT racing. With Maserati and Ferrari exchanging notes under the desk, the MC12 was based on the Ferrari Enzo although various modifications were made to the engine and chassis. In total, just 50 cars were made. Slide of Lamborghini Centenario: 40 While it’s not unusual for Lamborghini to give us rare bulls, there were just 40 of the Aventador-based Centenario produced: 20 roadsters and 20 coupes. To celebrate 100 years of Ferruccio Lamborghini, also known as a centenary, Lamborghini created one of its wildest cars yet. It had the same right hook as the Aventador with 7