Because there will always be a Star Wars nerd fan out there with ungodly amounts of money to spend (hire me), the Luke Skywalker lightsaber and severed hand prop used in The Empire Strikes Back recently sold at auction for $4.69-million ($3.75-million + a 25% buyer’s premium). It is the
In news that makes me really regret not winning the lotto last night (I knew I should have played), one of the largest and most complete t-rex fossils was recently sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $50.1 million to an anonymous phone bidder (crazy how professional I can make myself
This is an animated bar graph visualizing the world’s fifteen richest people (royalty excluded) from 1985 – 2023, with their associated companies also highlighted. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that even the poorest of these people is entirely too rich. I don’t even have any money and
This is a video of CNBC journalist Ray Parisi highlighting a robotic parking garage below the 121 East 22nd building in Manhattan where spots cost $300,000+ to own. An RFID tag lets the system know which car pallet to retrieve, then either brings you your car, or the empty pallet
Even though rich people’s exotic cars are at the very bottom of my list of things to to worry about during natural disasters, these are several photos and videos from Naples, Florida of a $2.3-million McLaren P1 that, along with its garage neighbor Rolls-Royce Phantom, succumbed to storm surges caused
Note: Some appropriate cursing from the car’s owner. Because driving exotic cars isn’t for everyone, this is a video of some poor valet bastard in Monaco crashing a ~$3.5-million LaFerrari (limited to 499 cars total) almost immediately after being handed the keys. “I thought you said crash it into the
This is a video of lead-footed JTThornton setting the record for the fastest 24.5 mile lap around Manhattan during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020 (there was never a better time to drive fast), averaging 69MPH in a McLaren 720S and reaching speeds up to 149MPH. Just to
This is a video of some dumb stunt involving a man dangling from the door of a $3,000,000 Bugatti parked on a boat. Just what the hell is going on here? Rich people, am I right? All dollars and no sense. For reference, if I had a $3M supercar you