Weirdest Auction Items

Weirdest Auction ItemsThe 1963 Pontiac Bonneville that carried President John F. Kennedy's body is up for sale. It's not the first bizarre auction item to go on the block. Lee Harvey Oswald's coffinThe coffin was first sold when the suspected presidential assassin's body was exhumed in 1981. School board hero's purseFlorida school board member Ginger Littleton tried to fight off a shooter with

Why does this Mercedes cost $500,000?

2011 Maybach 62 S The Maybach isn't the most expensive car in the world, but it is the highest-price line of autos made by Mercedes-Benz. The 62S model of the Maybach — the automaker's answer to the Rolls-Royce and Bentley — costs 8 million Hong Kong dollars (about US$1 million). And that's without extras.But the biggest reason for its high price is the Hong Kong luxury tax, about 50% in