Monday 23rd February 2015

Last Bugatti Veyron sold

'La Finale' has found a customer and will be on show at Geneva - is that really it?

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After a decade in production, the 450th and final Bugatti Veyron has been sold. It is the Grand Sport Vitesse "La Finale", seemingly another demure Bugatti one-off.

To be shown in full at Geneva...

The La Finale will be on display at Geneva alongside chassis #1, the first Veyron produced back in 2005. Since then we've had the Super Sport Coupe, Grand Sport Roadster and Grand Sport Vitesse Roadster. There have of course been those infamous special editions too, which we will not attempt to recount here. What will motor shows be without another one-off Veyron?

The four original development goals for the Veyron are still fairly incredible today. It was to transfer more than 1,000hp to the road (the actual power figure is 1,001hp), reach a top speed of over 400kph (248mph), accelerate to 62mph in less than three seconds and still be suitable "for driving to the opera in comfort and style." While the hybrid hypercars may have stolen some thunder from it recently but the Veyron's technical achievement remains pretty bonkers.

"An unprecedented chapter in automobile history has reached its climax", modestly claims Bugatti President Wolfgang Durheimer. A price hasn't been announced for the La Finale, but consider this has some kind of indicator: the average price of recent sold Veyrons is 2.3 million euros. Lordy.

 

[anonymous-user]

Whats next for Bugatti now I wonder?

[anonymous-user]

Europa1 said:

I have always struggled with the looks - the grille to me has always jarred.

That's a Bugatti hallmark though, I thought they've done well to incorporate it. It's not the most attractive car: function is winning the battle with form I feel (understandably in this instance).

The EB110 is an example of how to fudge it into a design; it looks like a keyhole in the front of the car.

[anonymous-user]

I agree with pretty much what has been said so far really.

It's an amazing car but strangely does absolutely nothing for me, and wouldn't even make my top 10 or probably top 20.

Someone made a good comparison to it being a 4 wheeled Faberge egg, and I think that's about eight. It's basically like just driving round in a big pile of money for everyone to see. I don't even think it's much of a drivers car is it apart from the obviously mental straight line speed.

It just doesn't look fun to me.

If someone gave me one, I would be absolutely delighted... Because I could sell it and buy a few cars that are both crap and ridiculously exciting at the same time, like an F40 and Diablo SV.