22 June 2009 - 12:00
First-ever Veyron on sale
The first production Bugatti Veyron ever built - number 001 of 300 - is up for sale. With a mere 400 miles on the clock, in mint condition.
There are just a couple of tiny problems. One, it's on sale in Beverly Hills - on the forecourt of luxury car dealer O'Gara Coach, to be precise - which is quite a long way away from the Top Gear office. This makes the possibility of a cheeky test drive somewhat remote.
Two, the price. $2.4 million. Or £1.46 million, if you prefer. Which is quite a lot more than the Veyron's supposed £925,000 list price.
Still, you do get a 8.0-litre W16 engine putting out very nearly 1,000bhp, and a car that'll hit 62mph in 2.5 seconds. And the happy glow of knowing that you're number one, baby. Number zero-zero-one. And a nice red-on-black paint scheme, though if we're being fussy we'd still prefer it in white-on-black.
If you could resist driving it, we'd imagine the 001 Veyron would earn you a tidy mint at auction in a few years' time. But would you be able to resist?
Now watch James's brilliant Veyron V-Max clip:
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Anybody wanna club together and buy it? We can ask Bernie and then drive it round Silverstone
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Why is it when the Veyron was first released they banged on about it achieving 1001BHP when most statistics show it to be 987? Type of fuel is it, that weak american stuff? Whichever the case, for this car to acheive 1001BHP is its party piece so you would think Bugatti would want its highest BHP figure to always be quoted.
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^ It's always been 987 BHP which translates to 1001 PS, a different measure of horsepower used in Europe and Japan.
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Isn't it a bit early to be jacking up the price of the first ever Bugatti EB16.4 Veyron? This sort of thing usually happens in 20 years and jacks the price up to, I dunno, £6.5m or £8m or whatever.
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(20 Plus - stupid comment box doesn't understand symbols...)
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I would love one of them...as soon as i pass.
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this car rocks!
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this car rocks!
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the only reason actually that is so much becuase you dont have to go on an waiting list and it probably was owned by a super famous person.
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Ummm... sorry. I've never liked the Veyron and I still don't. Ok the performance is awsome, on paper, but after going round the TG track its not actually that fast is it? I do like the interior though.
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The reason it's increasing in price is because it cost £5million to make and won't stop goin up in price until it reaches £10million and will probably keep going and why shouldn't it.....
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I hear number 2 was shit!
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carguytom commented on this article
22 June 2009
is the only reason it costs more than the standard one because it has been owned by some big headed celebrity
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