When 24/7 Wall St. recently examined the 10 Most Expensive Cars in America, the price for the winner was not even close to the balance of the cars. The McLaren P1 is priced at $1,155,000, which is higher than the second place car, the Porsche 918 Spyder, at $929,995.

As the analysis points out:

McLaren is first and foremost an engineering company, and it is a special event when a car such as the McLaren P1 appears on the market. When it was first introduced in 2013 as a followup to the McLaren F1 of the 1990s, all 375 P1s sold out in just eight months. It was the first time that McLaren Automotive — the manufacturing subsidiary of McLaren Group — posted profits. McLaren’s CEO Mike Flewitt was tempted to produce more cars but abstained to preserve the exclusivity that is so essential to the McLaren P1 brand. The P1 has a top speed of 217 mph, and accelerates from zero to 62 mph in 2.8 seconds.

The research was based on the ultra-luxury models being separated into two categories: performance and luxury vehicles. Cars such as the McLaren P1, the Lamborghini Aventador and the Ferrari F12berlinetta are built for speed and handling, meant to mimic the style of racing vehicles.

Others, including the three Rolls-Royce models to make this list — the Phantom, Ghost and Wraith — are designed to invoke class and style. “The Phantom and the Ghost and Wraith and the Bentley Mulsanne are not slow cars with limited power by any means, they’re extremely powerful, and for their size and weight, they are shockingly quick,” said Kelley Blue Book senior analyst Karl Brauer. “But they are not by nature performance vehicles like the other cars on the list. They are luxury vehicles.”

To identify the 10 most expensive American cars, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed Kelley Blue Book’s current fair purchase price, which is the site’s estimate for how much an auto buyer should expect to pay for a vehicle based on existing purchase data. We considered only 2015 models that were sold in the United States. In addition, we considered model specifications, which were obtained from manufacturer websites.

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