The 10 Most Expensive Cars and Trucks Made in America

Imagine a Venn diagram's two overlapping circles. One represents the many cars and trucks made in America; the other, the most expensive vehicles sold here. How much overlap is there between those two circles? Quite a lot, in fact. Plenty of pricey rides are both built and sold in the United States. Sure, gilded offerings such as Ferraris and Bentleys are imported from overseas, but not every car wearing a foreign nameplate has its passport stamped in a shipping port before arriving at your local dealership. These are the 10 most expensive cars, trucks, and SUVs being series produced and sold right here in the United States by any manufacturer, foreign or domestic.

P.S.: Given the differences in option pricing and availability among manufacturers, we've evened the playing field by considering only a vehicle's stated price for a model or trim level. All prices are thus presented without options added in.

Price: $93,595 | Built in: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Despite its flagship status in BMW's lineup and a price approaching six figures, the X7 just barely makes this list's cut. The Bavarian automaker's new top-of-the-line three-row crossover is produced alongside the smaller X3, X4, X5, and X6 at BMW's Spartanburg, South Carolina, assembly plant and starts at $74,895. That, however, buys you merely a base six-cylinder xDrive40i. To nab the version that qualifies as one of the priciest vehicles built in America, you'll need to step up to the $93,595, eight-cylinder X7 xDrive50i.

Price: $100,890 | Built in: Louisville, Kentucky

In the two decades since Lincoln birthed its first Navigator, it has worked to move the luxurious SUV further afield of the humble Ford Expedition on which it always has been based. Not only has that effort made the Navigator no longer a gussied-up Ford, it has transformed the SUV into one of the most expensive vehicles made in America. Pay no mind to the fact that the Navigator's 'Murican V-8 engine has been replaced by a twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V-6; the price of admission for Lincoln's range topper nevertheless opens at $74,500. Opt for the Black Label trim level, the longer of the Navigator's two available wheelbase dimensions, and all-wheel drive, and the price swells to $100,890.

Price: $101,090 | Built in: Arlington, Texas

The Navigator's archrival, the Cadillac Escalade, edges it in the price-inflation wars, if only just: A top-spec Escalade ESV (Cadillac-speak for the longer-wheelbase body style) runs $101,090. That is more than $25,000 dearer than the base-model Escalade and quite a distance from the lowest Chevrolet Suburban to which this Caddy technically is related. For all that scratch, you get an old-school, truck-based sport-utility loaded with everything General Motors can fit into its 18-foot-long shadow, plus a 6.2-liter eight-cylinder engine and room for eight passengers. Both the standard-length and stretched-wheelbase ESV Escalades are built in Texas alongside the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban and the GMC Yukon and Yukon XL.

The BMW X5 M has been (temporarily) put out to pasture while its successor based on the all-new X5 is readied. Its weirder-looking, fastback sibling, the X6 M, is mechanically identical and is sticking around until July 2019. (So, too, is the regular, non-M X6.) Like its more conventionally shaped X5 M counterpart, the X6 M boasts a 577-hp 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 . (A lower-output version of this same engine powers the new three-row X7 found earlier on this list, among other BMW models.) Here, the BMW 4.4-liter V-8 propels the X6 M to 60 mph in only 3.8 seconds; we expect the next-generation X5 and X6 M will be even quicker when they're released.

Price: $112,855 | Built in: Tuscaloosa, Alabama

In rolling out the GLE coupe, Mercedes took a page from archrival BMW's playbook and applied what it calls the "crossover coupe" treatment to its mid-size GLE-class luxury SUV, chopping the thing's roof and upping the price. Like the X6 (and the X5 on which it is based), the GLE and its coupe sibling are produced in the Deep South (in Alabama instead of South Carolina). Unlike the X6, which is offered in regular and high-performance M guises, the GLE coupe is only available in performance-minded Mercedes-AMG regalia. That means the lowest-rung GLE coupe is the six-cylinder, AMG-badged GLE43. Spend another $41,360-$112,855 all-in-and you can grab the more powerful eight-cylinder GLE63 S coupe.

Price: $125,090 | Built in: Bowling Green, Kentucky

Chevrolet has been building ever more expensive versions of the Corvette, and the trend will continue when the all-new mid-engined C8 Corvette arrives and edges America's sports car deeper into exotic territory. For now, the front-engined Corvette ZR1 stands as the most expensive roadgoing Vette, setting customers back $122,095 sans options. The convertible costs even more, listing for $125,090-a far cry from the lowliest $60,590 Corvette Stingray convertible. It might be the priciest Corvette ever, but that feels like a worthwhile tradeoff given that the 755-hp ZR1 is the front-engined Corvette's zenith.

Mercedes-AMG uses the same twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 across its lineup, but reserves the more muscular states of tune (mostly) for its heftiest vehicles. Hence why the version with 577 horses and 561 lb-ft is reserved for the likes of AMG's nearly 17-foot-long, seven-seat GLS63. This thing hauls: Even though AMG estimates the GLS63 takes 4.5 seconds to reach 60 mph, we found that to be conservative, clocking a smoking 4.3-second run in our testing. An all-new GLS is expected in the not-too-distant future, and it could even get a twelve-cylinder engine option.

Price: $136,200 | Built in: Fremont, California

Tesla has been hard at work driving down the cost of its new Model 3-its supposedly affordable electric sedan that has yet to become truly affordable-but its bigger brother, the long-serving Model S, firmly remains an expensive luxury EV. The base version with the 75.0-kWh battery starts at a rich $78,000, while the top Model S P100D performance model with the larger 100.0-kWh battery and the YouTube–famous Ludicrous acceleration mode goes for nearly twice that. Note that its $136,200 MSRP is before any available federal or state taxes and purchase incentives.

Price: $141,200 | Built in: Fremont, California

The Model S is not Tesla's priciest offering. That award goes to the S's crossover sibling, the Model X. Not only is the Model X more car than the Model S-it is taller and has a roomier third-row seat option-but the SUV has complex motorized Falcon Wing gullwing rear doors. Thus the Model X, despite sharing its powertrains with the Model S sedan, starts at $85,200 in 75D form ($6000 above the Model S 75D's price) and can be stretched all the way to $141,200 by way of the top-dog P100D variant. That last MSRP makes the Tesla Model X the most expensive car made in America by an American automaker-at least until the new, $200,000 Tesla Roadster arrives.

Price: $159,300 | Built in: Marysville, Ohio

The most expensive car on our list isn't made by an American automaker, but it is built right in the American heartland: Ohio. You wouldn't think that is the case by looking at Acura's exotic NSX, a mid-engined gas-electric-hybrid supercar. Whereas the original NSX was imported from Japan, this newest model is assembled at Honda's dedicated Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, which is adjacent to the plant where the Acura ILX, Acura TLX, and Honda Accord sedans are built. (The facility where the Honda CR-V, Acura RDX, and Acura MDX crossovers are screwed together is but a short drive away in East Liberty, Ohio, cementing the state as Honda's Western headquarters.) But nothing else Honda or Acura makes comes close to the NSX's $159,300 base price; option an NSX, and $200,000 comes up quick.

America's workhorses, full-size pickup trucks-the Chevy Silverado, Ford F-series, GMC Sierra, and Ram-start out affordable. Base and work-truck versions can be had for around $30,000. Opt for a rig's top trim level in heavy-duty spec with the largest cab configuration, four-wheel drive, and an optional diesel engine, and one can easily double up the cost of an entry-level truck. Truckmakers aren't deaf to the siren song whistled by ever pricier full-size pickup trucks. The vehicles already are hugely profitable, and building more luxurious, more capable, and more expensive iterations only inflates those returns. Ford's F-series Super Duty Limited, for example, starts at over $80,000. Because this roundup is based on prices for a given make, model, and trim level without added-on options, the Ford doesn't officially make the list. And yet we're on the cusp of seeing a $100,000 factory pickup truck from one of Detroit's Big Three: Step up to the F-450 and check off every option box, and the window sticker will read a cool $95,365.