My fiancée asked me what I desired for Christmas and I told her I wanted a Bugatti Veyron, the most expensive car in the world. She told me to hit the road or find a sugar mamma who can afford to buy me one. In the throes of a deep recession, buying a Veyron is like thumbing your nose at the rest of the world. You’re telling people, “Yeah, I realize that this car is obscenely expensive. And I don’t care what anyone thinks, because I’m rich.” (Or heavily in debt.)
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4, is currently the most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with an excess of 1001 horsepower, in either the metric or SAE scale, with its top speed of 253.81 mph (408.47 km/h). The Bugatti Veyron reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the French Bugatti marque.
It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm. After the release of the car, it has been reported that while each Veyron is being sold for $1.2 million, the production costs of the car are approximately £5 million per vehicle. This is not the price to produce one vehicle, but rather the cost of the entire Veyron project divided by the number of vehicles produced at that time. As Bugatti, and therefore Volkswagen, are taking such a loss on these cars, you must know they’re the highest quality in every sense of the word. I’m not going to get one for Christmas, so I guess I’ll have to settle for new slippers, socks and an iPod. Oh well, maybe next year.
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