Bugatti Divo, Ferrari Pista Spider and more at Monterey Car Week – in pictures

The Californian car-calendar highlight had some particularly big unveilings this year

<p>The Bugatti Divo&nbsp;at The Quail &ndash; A Motorsports Gathering. Bugatti Automobiles SAS</p>

<p>Bugatti Divo. Bugatti Automobiles SAS</p>

<p>The 488 Pista Spider is shown for the first time at the&nbsp;Pebble Beach&nbsp;Concours d&#39;Elegance. Bloomberg</p>

This 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO set a new record price for a car sold at auction. R M Sotheby's

The Ferrari made US$48.4m (Dh177.8m). R M Sotheby's

This 1963 Aston Martin DP215 Grand Touring Competition Prototype was also sold at auction at Pebble Beach for $21.5m. R M Sotheby's

The Fenyr SuperSport, by Dubai-based hypercar-maker W Motors, made its US bow at Monterey. W Motors

The Bentley Mulsanne W O Edition by Mulliner had its debut at Monterey Car Week. Bentley

Each W O Edition has a slice of crankshaft from company founder W O Bentley's own personal 8 Litre car from 1930 set into the armrest. Bentley

The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ was launched at Monterey. It will be limited to 900 cars. Lamborghini

BMW's new Z4 roadster was revealed in its First Edition guise at Pebble Beach. BMW

Anglo-Australian carmaker Brabham presented its 5.4-litre V8 model the BT62. Brabham Automotive

The all-electric Audi PB18 e-tron concept car had its premiere at Pebble Beach. Audi

Automobili Pininfarina, the car brand from the famed Italian automotive design house, held a private preview for its PF0 electric hypercar concept. Automobili Pininfarina

This 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta was 'best of show' at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. FCA

Bugatti, Ferrari, Bentley and a host of other top car companies used this year's Monterey Car Week and its umbrella of events to take the wraps off some of their flashiest new models and special editions this weekend.

The undeniable highlight was Bugatti's new hypercar, the Divo, which was shown off at The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering.

As with the Bugatti Chiron, it is a 1,500hp monster powered by the French carmaker's 8.0-litre W16 engine.

Improved aerodynamics, suspension and chassis settings, however, mean that the Divo is 35 kilograms lighter and has 90kg more downforce than the Chiron, with a limited maximum speed of 380kph.

Want to own one? Tough luck: all 40 vehicles, with a price tag of €5 million (Dh21.4m) each, have already been sold.

If you're merely a millionaire rather than a billionaire, you can instead get scrabbling under your sofa cushions for enough dirhams to buy a Ferrari 488 Pista Spider, which made its debut at the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach.

How many dirhams, exactly? Pricing is yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be comfortably north of Dh1m.

Those seven figures will afford you quite the drop-top, race-tuned sports car, in follow-up to the 488 Pista Coupe, which was first announced in February this year.

With 710hp, the 4.0-litre twin-turbo engine is the most powerful Ferrari V8 ever.

There was also a new world record set for most expensive car ever sold at auction, with a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO put under the hammer by R M Sotheby’s, eventually selling for US$48.4m (Dh177.8m). To put that into context, for that sum, you could have purchased two Bugatti Divos, with enough change to grab three or four Ferrari 488 Pista Spiders.

The UAE's own Fenyr SuperSport, by Dubai-based hypercar-maker W Motors, also made its US bow at Monterey.

Scroll through our gallery above to see the Divo, Pista Spider, record-breaking 250 GTO and more highlights from Monterey Car Week, which wraps up today.

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