By The Numbers - Up To Speed
Big Money
By Aaron Frank
Photography by Courtesy Of Chrysler
| $120,000 | MSRP of the MV Agusta F4 CC, the world's most expensive production motorcycle. |
| $126,000 | Price of NCR's 2009 Mike Hailwood TT replica, which begins life as an $11,999 Ducati Sport 1000. |
| 8 | Number of 1981 Ducati Mike Hailwood Replicas you could buy for the price of one NCR bike, and still have $4320 in change. An exceptional original sold at auction for $15,210 last May. |
| $150,000 | What it takes to look like Jay Leno with your own MTT Turbine jet-powered superbike. |
| $155,000 | Price paid for Steve McQueen's 1934 Indian Sport Scout 45, sold at auction in 2006. |
| $135,000 | Premium for McQueen provenance, compared to fair market value for any other 1934 Indian Sport Scout 45. |
| $275,000 | Price of the limited-edition (10 total) Ecosse Titanium Series streetfighter. |
| $5000 | Approximate retail value of the color-matched BRM wristwatch included with each Ecosse Titanium Series streetfighter. |
| $520,000 | Most ever paid at auction for a motorcycle, a 1915 Cyclone board-track racer sold in Monterey in July 2008. |
| $550,000 | Price for the Dodge Tomahawk V10 "motorcycle" (technically a quad that rolls on four very close-set wheels). Non-running reproductions were sold as "rolling sculptures" exclusively through the 2003 Neiman Marcus Christmas book. |
| 392.85714 | Number of Chinese-made 150cc knock-off Tomahawks, available over the Internet for $1400, that you could buy for the price of one Neiman Marcus re-pop. The knock-offs actually run. |
| $1.4 million | Current asking price for the legendary, record-setting Rollie Free Vincent Black Lightning. It remains on the market. |