It’s official. This Bugatti Veyron 16.4 might be essentially the most treasured occasion of the breed ever provided at public sale, explicit editions not withstanding. The 2007 occasion went beneath the hammer with Bonhams on the 2025 Goodwood Pageant of Tempo, and promptly blew its estimate out of the water with a world-record worthwhile bid of £1,527,000. That’s merely over $2.04 million USD.
By the best way, not solely is that decide double its £800,000 / $1.07 million estimate, it’s moreover $620,000 over the Veyron’s genuine asking value when it launched in 2005, and 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {{dollars}} higher than a one-of-three Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Meo Costantini provided for once more in 2020. That isn’t harmful for a regular Veyron, if such an element exists. Nevertheless it is nonetheless correctly wanting the 2010 Veyron Grand Sport ‘Sang Bleu’ one-of-one that fetched $3 million remaining yr in Miami.
A World Report Holder, Nevertheless Not The Most Pricey Supercar At Goodwood
Ordered in December 2006, and constructed to 2008 specs, this express Veyron – chassis 079 – is one among solely 253 coupes constructed and has had only one proprietor from new. Unsurprisingly, it has been safely packed away with the wedding china, having racked up barely beneath 480 miles by the years. Accomplished in two-tone metallic Mocha Brown and White Espresso on the floor, the within is a mix of Magnola and Havana leather-based. The colors are fittingly neutral, given that the automotive has spent most of its life in Switzerland.
Staggeringly, this Veyron wasn’t even the highest-priced model provided at Bonhams’ Goodwood public sale. Actually one among solely 275 Mercedes-AMG One hypercars provided for £2,456,600 ($3.3 million). A 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, initially bought in 1995 and following a full 23-year restoration, provided for £866,200 ($1.16 million). And this Veilside Mazda RX-7 FD, as seen in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, provided for £911,000 ($1.22 million). Combined, the Goodwood-based public sale observed upwards of $13.7 million in product sales go beneath the auctioneer’s block by way of the weekend.
The Bugatti That Made Historic previous
Whereas the notion of a 1,000-horsepower automotive is a bit more acceptable by proper now’s necessities, once more in 1998, many scoffed at Volkswagen Group CEO Ferdinand Piëch’s plan to produce such a machine. The sky-high horsepower rating was solely part of the numbers sport, as a result of it obtained right here with a $1 million price tag and a claimed excessive velocity previous 250 mph. Ideas you, this was at a time when 400 hp was a large deal and $40,000 would possibly get you a model new Mercedes C-Class.
Nonetheless, Piëch’s imaginative and prescient obtained right here to life in October 1998 when Bugatti provided the EB118 concept at that yr’s Paris Auto Current. After two years of conceptual fettling, the Veyron EB 16.4 lastly reached manufacturing variety.
The determine was derived from Ettore Bugatti himself along with 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (and sometime Bugatti manufacturing facility driver) Pierre Veyron, and was moreover a nod to the hypercar’s whopping 16-cylinder, quad-turbocharged engine.
Provide: Bonhams Auctions