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And the Most Expensive Car to Insure Is ...

The car with the highest dollar amount of losses for insurance companies is the Cadillac Escalade EXT 4 wheel drive .

Where is the Most Expensive City to Park Your Car

London : $68.07 a day, or $1,166.87 a month in the financial district.

$850,000 of James Brown Stuff Sold at Auction

Christie's auction house in New York auctioned off over $850,000 of items from the estate of James Brown , the famous soul singer. One of the top items was his black satin cape which went for $47,000.

Renoir Sold at Auction by Paris Pawnshop

The oldest pawnshop in France just auctioned off a pastel painting by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, for $300,000 . The painting "Young Girl Seated in a Garden," is from 1881.

$2 Million Lunch with Warren Buffett

At a charity eBay auction, a Chinese investor paid $2,110,100 for a lunch with the famous American investor, Warren Buffett . This was the most expensive charity item that eBay has ever sold.The proceeds support the Glide Foundation, a California based charity which provides services to the poor and homeless in San Francisco. The winning bidder was Zhao Danyang, head of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund. The winning bidder is entitled to himself and up to seven friends dining with Buffett at Smith & Wollensky steakhouse restaurant in New York City, New York.

$185 Burger King Hamburger

How would you like to pay $185 for a hamburger ? And a Burger King (BKC) hamburger at that! That is what burgers are selling for at a Burger King in South Kensington, England. Burger King trades on the New York Stock Exchange.

$1 Billion Home

If you think the $100 Million for Donald Trump's mansion is high, it doesn't come close to Mukesh Ambani's house which is costing $1 billion to build . The house will be 27 storeys high (the first six floors for just parking and the roof has a helipad). Ambani is the fifth richest man in the world.