'Price Is Right' Contestants to Bid on 'Dream Cars'
OK, playing “The Price is Right” rules, as close as you can without going over: How much would you expect to pay for a Porsche Cayenne? How about a Range Rover Sport SE? A Maserati Quattroporte S Q4, Tesla Model S or Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster? All next week contestants on the iconic game show will be making bids on that half-million-dollar quintet of luxury vehicles in hopes of hearing Bob Barker … er … we mean, Drew Carey, announce that they’ve won “A NEW CARRR!!!”
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“Dream Car Week” runs Oct. 13-17 on the four-decade-old-plus shopping-themed game show that asks contestants to wager on the retail price of merchandise in hopes of winning extravagant prizes presented by comely models. The show was famously hosted by Barker from its inception until 2007, when bespectacled comedian and sitcom star Carey succeeded him. The show runs 11 a.m. to noon Eastern Standard Time weekdays on CBS.
If next week’s contestants wanted to have an edge, we hope they boned up on their luxury-vehicle pricing on Cars.com. We don’t know what sorts of options packages will be on the cars they’re bidding on, but here are our guesses (in hopes of getting as close as possible without going over, we’ve gone with the starting price plus destination for the newest-available model):
- 2014 Porsche Cayenne SUV, $50,595
- 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport SE SUV, $64,275
- 2014 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 sedan, $105,300
- 2014 Tesla Model S, $71,070
- 2014 Aston Martin V8 Vantage roadster, $136,125
Cars.com photo by Aaron D. Bragman
