Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Aug 16: The recently disqualified MLA MTB Nagaraj is in news again. However, this time for buying India’s most expensive car, the Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII.
The luxury car is currently the most expensive vehicle available on sale in India and costs Rs 9.5 crore (ex-showroom, Delhi). When one calculates the on-road price, it costs a whooping Rs 11 crore.
Nagaraj’s purchase was brought to the media attention by Congress politician Nivedith Alva, who posted a picture on twitter.
Sources reveal that Nagaraj visited the Avimukteshwara temple in his hometown of Hoskote in his new car. Later, he left in his swanky car to meet the Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa.
Nagaraj, before his disqualification, was the MLA of Hoskote and the Karnataka housing minister. Prior to the Karnataka Assembly elections in 2018, he had declared assets worth Rs 1,015 crore.
Nagaraj was termed as the richest MLA in India, in a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms.
In his declaration, Nagaraj, who belongs to Kuruba community, had claimed that his main sources of income were agriculture, house property, business, and other sources.
Phantom VIII is the successor of the Phantom model that had a runtime of almost 16 years.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII is made using a new-age aluminum space frame platform and the car is powered by a massive 6.75-litre petrol engine. The V12 unit twin-turbo engine churns out 563 Bhp of power along with 900 Nm of peak torque. This enables the car to reach 100 km/h in just 5.4 seconds.