The most expensive vehicle made in America costs $150,000 more than the second priciest

America builds plenty of fast, flashy, six-figure machines, but one of them sits so far above the rest it might as well have its own ZIP code.

This year’s ranking of the most expensive American-made vehicles isn’t even a close fight.

The gap between first and second place isn’t just big… it’s house-deposit big.

And the model taking that top spot isn’t the one you’d expect to outrun hyper-EVs and 1,200 horsepower Corvettes.

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America’s most expensive vehicle that blasts $150,000 past its nearest rival

At the top of the list is America’s most expensive vehicle, the Cadillac Celestiq.

A hand-built electric flagship that starts in the low-$400,000 range. 

Built in Warren, Michigan, the Celestiq is designed as Cadillac’s answer to Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

And it leans into that ambition with old-school craftsmanship and ultra-low production numbers. 

Cadillac reportedly made just 25 of them for 2025.

Two electric motors produce 655hp, it does 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds, and it’s rated for 303 miles of range. 

All fine, all impressive, all totally secondary to the fact that no other American-built vehicle comes close in price.

The closest competitor is the Lucid Air Sapphire, a tri-motor rocket out of Casa Grande, Arizona. 

Fully equipped, it lands at $250,500 – a full $150,000 below the Celestiq – despite packing 1,234hp, a 1.89-second 0-60 time, and a 205mph top speed. 

By nearly every performance metric, the Lucid is the one pushing boundaries. 

But in this list, performance doesn’t determine the throne, exclusivity does.

Cadillac has built a car so rare, so tailored, and so expensive that even America’s most extreme EV.

And its quickest Corvettes can’t get anywhere near it on price alone.

Where the rest of America’s most expensive vehicles come from

Below the Celestiq and Sapphire, the list shifts into hypercar-grade Corvettes and ultra-luxe SUVs.

A mix that says a lot about what ‘American-made’ really looks like in 2025.

From Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and ZR1X claim the number three and number four spots. 

The ZR1 delivers a twin-turbo flat-plane V8 making 1,064hp, while the hybrid-AWD ZR1X bumps it to 1,250hp with a claimed sub-two-second 0-60. 

Then come the luxury giants: BMW’s X6 M, Alpina XB7, and XM Label, plus Mercedes-AMG’s GLS 63 and the Maybach GLS 600. 

They wear German badges but roll out of factories in South Carolina and Alabama, giving the ‘Made in America’ list a very international flavor.

Sitting right in the middle is the Cadillac Escalade-V from Arlington, Texas, which proves traditional American excess still has a place among $150,000-plus SUVs.

Add it all up and the pattern becomes clear: today’s priciest US-built vehicles aren’t muscle cars or EV tech showcases.

They’re a blend of handcrafted domestic flagships, foreign luxury SUVs assembled stateside, and a few Corvettes that now qualify as land-based missiles.

And hovering far above all of them is Cadillac’s Celestiq, redefining how expensive ‘American-made’ can get.

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