A very difficult record to break down by a brand that has made costs its flag. Everyone expected a very high price but few thought it could really do it, here is the record figure.
Buying a new car always costs more, yes, however there are limits than theoretically they cannot be overcome when it comes to cars…or not? Paying for a car as much as a three-story house is really possible, there are people with enough Euros in their pockets to even afford a powerful supercar like this one we’re talking about today.
The record was shot down in a sensational way, breaking a record that however it already belonged at home. Let’s say that the primacy has remained in the family, in a certain sense, even if we wonder where the limit on the costs of a car is if a vehicle, however unique and powerful, is paid this insane amount.
Luxury goods
There are some products that fall under the so-called Giffen goods, objects to which a price increase it does not cause a drop in sales and we also have several in the world of engines, what can you believe. The paradox of luxury cars is just that, while ordinary citizens struggle to get a car at reduced prices, a lucky few spend millions on the various super cars on the road.
A lucky few precisely that they can afford of shelling out insane amounts like the one we’re talking about today for a single car, not even for an entire car park. But can you imagine being able to pay even five, eight, ten million Euros for a car? With that amount, you could buy a house, start a small business!
The brand of records
If there is a house that since its inception at the dawn of motoring modern has always put crazy price tags on its cars, this is Bugatti, a French company now part of the German Volkswagen Group – after a bankruptcy Italian parenthesis in the nineties – whose cars historically cost a disproportionate amount. And with good reason.
In fact, to date, there are no cars of this brand that are not worth a minimum of a million new. Why? And do you even ask? Cars like the Veyron and the Chiron they are the top of technology, cars that we could define as “over-engineered” to the point that many owners claim that after driving them they could not get used to carrying other cars. Ah, they also have a top speed of over four hundred kilometers per hour, by the way.
The most expensive!
All previously broken records have simply been broken by Bugatti Profiles, a special version produced in a single copy of the Bugatti Chiron which – it is rumored – could be the last Bugatti with a sixteen-cylinder engine ever produced. In fact, the future of the brand is uncertain and there is ever more insistent talk of a transition to the hybrid with the next models.
This supercar presented in an unprecedented blue livery known as Argent Atlantique capable on paper of reaching a top speed of 480 kilometers per hour even if the car certainly features a electronic limiter to remain street legal it was auctioned on a famous online auction site such as RM Sotheby at an unimaginable price.
Its currently unknown buyer has spent the beauty of 9.8 million Euros to have it, the cost of a seaside villa or a pleasure yacht. Obviously, this price does not beat the absolute record: in fact, tens of millions of euros have been spent on some vintage Ferraris and Mercedes-Benzes, but never say never: perhaps in fifty years the car will be worth even more!
