Jenson Button is the greatest Formula 1 driver of the moment, thanks a great deal to his team principle Ross Brawn. It looks like the English racing driver has some big plans in store for the future because he has just put his monotone black 2008 Bugatti Veyron up for sale. So the next car he purchases will have a very large parking space to fill.
Mr. Button is only the second owner of this particular Veyron and it only has a mere 1500 miles on the odometer. He is asking £899,995 for the lot. That is a quite substantial $1,482,620 here in the U.S. That isn’t such a bad deal considering that the 1001 HP super car retails new for $1.7 Million and used versions are going for as much as $1.8 Million and the original Veyron went for $2.4 Million. So that means Jensen is taking a hit for the depreciation instead of trying to sell it as a celebrity owned automobile.
Now that the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport has officially gone into full fledged production the imagineers at Bugatti have a little extra free time on their hands, so the exotic Italian automaker got to work preparing the usual round of special editions based on the upcoming Grand Sport.
It is only fitting that the first of these multi-million dollar special edition vehicles debut at the world’s greatest car show this August at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. If we reflect on what Bugatti did with the original Veyron coupe, we can safely assume that this initial limited edition vehicle will be a blacked out Sang Noir edition, and will cost owners somewhere around $2 Million.
At the same event we will also see such vehicles as: the new Jaguar XJ, the Bentley Arnage replacement, a virtual preview of the 2011 Infiniti M luxury sedan, the Aston Martin DBS Volante and the Fisker Karma; just to name a few.
What would you think about pitting a 1001 HP super car against a 473 HP budget speed machine? Doesn’t sound to fair does it? Well, the guys from EVO Magazine put the Bugatti Veyron and the Nissan GT-R in a head to head competition to figure out if more is always better. It should come as no surprise that the Veyron won the drag race, however not everything went the way of the Italian exotic once the roads got twisty.
Imagine going 200 MPH in a Bugatti Veyron. Now imagine that you are on a public street and there are blue and red lights flashing behind your 1001 HP super car. That is exactly what happened with social media mogul Philip Odegard, an internet whiz kid who is responsible for a host of full time blogs and other personal interest web pages.
Mr. Odegard being so web savvy posted the speeding ticket in his Flicker account for the world to see, a very fitting move for someone so intertwined with the information super highway. The yellow ticket is evidence that the silver Veyron was pulled by the fuzz for doing 210+ in a 65 MPH zone. That is 150 MPH over the legal limit on State Road 73, but apparently in the state of California doing above 100 MPH is only a $500 fine. So, it looks like Philip could have maxed out his Bugatti at around 250 MPH for the same price.
It appears that the driver was fined $500 for his excessive display of speed. The question remains whether the car went home with him or not; in an area so eager to crush rice rockets, we can see the police calling in a wrecker. For just the fines alone Philip could have attended one and a half sessions at a track day where he could have hit 200 MPH all day long, although he wouldn’t have the same story to tell.
In a piece of film that gave us goose bumps, Richard Hammond makes history by challenging the Stig to a standing mile drag race in two iconic super cars. The McLaren F1 was the car of the 1990s, offering the purest driving feel possible in a road car while the Bugatti Veyron is Ferdinand Piech’s technological 21st century no compromises super car. The results will make you think about the benefits of an instantaneously responsive naturally aspirated power plant compared to the lag of a turbo and the top end created by excessive amounts of boost.
Things get interesting at around 330 kilometers per hour. Check it out.
You may have grown tired of hearing about the Bugatti Veyron, with its Volkswagen sourced W-16 engine pressurized by two pair of turbochargers to make four digit horsepower numbers and hit 250 MPH … Yes we all know how great this French super car is, but when we are talking about a limited edition of this ultra exclusive supercar, well, then you are just going to have to excuse us!
The even more exclusive Veyron Pur Sang has been spotted at Silverstone during this past Grand Prix weekend. This special edition combines carbon and aluminum to create a lightweight body, while keeping the familiar performance we have come to expect from the Veyron. If you ever wanted to know what a Formula 1 driver leaves the track in, this would be a pretty good guess.
Top Speed has just added almost 50 new images to our Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport gallery! So get comfortable and start clicking!
When the roof is closed, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport can reach 252 MPH, while speeds of up to 223 MPH are possible when going topless. Should it rain, there is an innovative soft-top roof replacing umbrella that is stored under the hood. You won’t set any speed records with the temporary soft top, but you probably shouldn’t be doing over 100 MPH in the rain behind the wheel of a million dollar super car.
Now that the exotic French super car builder has officially started production of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport’s production, you will have more chances to see the supercar driving on the streets! Is true that one in a million, but is better than nothing, no?
Well, until you can see it for yourself, or even better get behind the wheel, enjoy the video below!
There is something special about being number 1, heck recently a man in Abu Dhabi paid over $14 Million for the priviledge of having the number “1” lisence plate, instant street credit in the Middle East’s oil rich car crazy tuner culture. Here is another kind of first; it is the first Bugatti of the 21st century, it is the first modern super car to demand €1 million for the privilege of ownership. This was the first road going car to be powered by Volkswagen’s W16, making 1001 HP with the help of four turbochargers. If you haven’t figured it out by now we are talking about the Bugati Veyron, and this is the very first one, chassis #001 of 300.
The owner has relinquished his piece of automobile history, and with only 400 miles on the clock, the original Veyron is on sale; the asking price, a cool $2.4 Million. The quadruple digit horse power Bugatti Veyron 16.4 can achieve a level of acceleration previously unheard of in the sports car segment, the speed bubble can go from 0 to 60 MPH in just three seconds and fly past the 200 MPH mark only 11 seconds later. Thanks to the car’s 923 lb-ft of torque, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4’s powerful propulsion unit is not exhausted until the piece of rolling technology reaches 252.3 mph (406 km/h): the maximum speed for which chassis and drive train have been designed.
In Italian, Vincero directly translates to "I will win!" Well, with 1109 HP under the engine cover and outrageous styling to match, there’s no doubt you will! Here is the Bugatti Veyron Vincero by Mansory explained by Kourosh Mansory.
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