'La Marquise' set to make a mint
The world’s oldest car is going to auction and is expected to fetch a cool £1million.
The old bird herself, La Marquise
La Marquise, built by French manufacturers 'De Dion, Bouton et
Trepardoux' in 1884, is a steam powered four seater that pre-dates the
Daimler and Benz gas powered prototypes by just one year.
It won the world’s first motor race - from Paris to Neuilly and back (19 miles) - in 1887 using its devastating 38mph top speed.
After doing a bit of maths here at the office, we worked out that (if
you stumped up the cash) you’ll be paying £26,316 for each mph you get
out of it or £8,130 for every year it’s existed. You never know, it
might be worth double that in another 123 years time...
World’s oldest car sold over US$3 million
As the
oldest car, it did not wear number 1 but number “0” in the 1996 London
to Brighton Veteran Car Run. In 2007, a fortunate car collector had
successfully bid the car at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and the car
was sold for US$3,520,000. Imagine putting on 10,000 miles a year on
the mileage meter if the car has one, the car will be more than 1200,000
miles on the car! Remarkably, after over a century, it has only had two
owners for the world’s oldest car.
Source : Piston Heads & Malaysia Mini Lover
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