These machines are "burn" money faster than others - gasoline.

From supercars to spaceships - these machines "burn" money faster than others - gasoline.

1. Bugatti Veyron





Cost per mile (1 mile = 1, 6 km): $ 18

Car Bugatti has always been an expensive toy. $ 350,000 will cost the car itself. 36 cents per mile for gasoline does not seem exorbitant price, but the more mileage, the more costly car maintenance

2. Queen Mary 2



Cost per mile: $ 245

On the ship at the same time can accommodate 2,640 passengers. This is $ 0, 092 per mile per passenger, excluding maintenance and the cost of the team.

Every hour, the Queen Mary 2 burns about three tons of fuel. Each ton costs $ 650. Taking into account all costs, every hour of the ship costs $ 7350. During the cruise ship is moving at a speed of about 30 miles per hour.

3. Air Force One (the presidential airplane)



Cost per mile: $ 306, 78

Cost of the flight of the American presidential plane - about 180 thousand dollars. Flight, for example, from Los Angeles to New York takes 4 hours 47 minutes. The distance between the airports in these cities is 2806 4 miles.

Plus escort.

In the year goes from 1, 4 to 1, $ 8 billion.

4. Spacecraft



Cost per mile: $ 390

Spaceship costs a little more expensive than the plane of Obama. The cost of the ship is about $ 200 billion, the number of miles for which they are intended - about 500 million. Receives $ 390 per mile.

5. The International Space Station



Cost per mile: $ 484, 65

At least, that was three years ago.

6. Crawler-transporter



Cost per mile: $ 502, 80

Transportation spacecraft is not cheap.

There are two copies of the conveyor. In total, over 47 years of existence, they have done about 3400 miles. One gallon of fuel is enough to drive less than 13 meters. For each such machine management requires a team of highly paid specialists from 30 people.

7. The rocket Saturn V



Cost per mile: $ 2,400

This spacecraft, which Neil Armstrong made a flight to the moon. Its engine runs on liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

8. The carrier of the "Nimitz»



Cost per mile: $ 2626, 81

160 million a year spent only on staff salaries.

If we add to this the cost of fuel and maintenance facilities, then come to about $ 400 million a year. Plus the cost of the aircraft carrier - $ 4, 5 billion. Divide by years of service (40 years) and $ 530 million per year or $ 1.45 million per day.

9. Dragsters class Top Fuel



Cost per mile: $ 21,000

This includes the short life of the car, and the need for constant change of parts and fuel consumption.

10. Lunar rover program "Apollo»



Cost per mile: $ 5, 9 billion

To this rover has done its 18 miles, it first had to be transported to the moon. Given the development of the device, which cost 17, 2 billion dollars in 1969, receive $ 5, 9 billion per mile in recalculation on money in 2013.

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