What car is way more expensive than you thought?

I spent a week with a Maserati Levante Trofeo. It is an interesting machine in that it will make entertaining noises, has robust electricity, and definitely helps make its existence acknowledged in that adequately Italian way. Even if it is continue to a crossover. It’s not a revelatory driving encounter or anything at all like that. And the interior is fantastic for what it is. But both of those of all those very last points are what make it stand out in a stunning way, to me at the very least. That is simply because the as-analyzed price tag of this brilliant eco-friendly device is $173,550.

That is at the very least $50,000 more than I would’ve guessed. The foundation rate of the Levante Trofeo product is $155,200. And then the Fuoriserie Corse paintwork (right here performed in City Green, which is a odd name for a shade) is an more $17,000.

Even prior to the paint, the price tag feels a little bit higher to me. The base Levante, with a 345 hp V6, begins just close to $90k. So there is truly nowhere to go but up. And this Trofeo, at minimum, has a 580 hp twin-turbocharged V8. Even now, it is challenging for me to justify the rate tag on this when it’s just a several grand shy of the starting off rate of the Aston Martin DBX, which is a considerably top-quality machine.

Regardless, it’s a phase of automotive pricing in which I’m not taking part in in any case. I can even now complain about it, of program. And to me, this one particular is stunning. What autos are you stunned by with regard to the value?