The Bugatti Veyron is selling briskly in the United States, according to Sunday’s Detroit Free Press. While Bugatti has taken orders for a mere 30 Veyrons in the entire United States, at $1.4 million each, sales are already over $40 million. And while Volkswagen is believed to be losing money on each sale, dealers have managed to build a working business model around the car. After all, one dealer — Bugatti Troy in Detroit — has sold just four this year. Three of the buyers live in Michigan and one in Toronto. Buyers plunk down a $383,500 deposit ahead of delivery for the thousand-horsepower supercar, the newspaper said. Bugatti will build just 50 Veyrons at its Molsheim, France facility. Production will end once the total reaches 300. Recently, the Veyron beat a Suzuki GSX-R1000 superbike in a 0-100-0 mph competition.
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07/10, 8:20 AM
posted by:
tino
Welllll, i like hotcakes
07/10, 8:27 AM
posted by:
6ix
Actually, hotcakes sound pretty good right about now.
The gap between the “have’s” and the “have nots” in this country is getting larger and larger every day. Katrina forced poor people in the gulf to run like rats from water, yet there are more and more McMansions going up, corporate and political scandals abound, etc. Ah, this crap is always going on.
07/10, 9:13 AM
posted by:
Jurrian
Strange? people buy everything these days, as long as it is expensive. these cars are only bought as a status symbol. how many years of prison would it cost the owner to drive teh car at top speed in the USA?
so what is the use of the amount of HP?
07/10, 9:37 AM
posted by:
Madcapp
Funny that you mention hotcakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsk6i-WZUw&search=uncle%20jemima
07/10, 10:38 AM
posted by:
Omar
Oooh! One in Toronto! I’d love to catch a glimpse of that! I saw a Murcielago Roadster the other day.. made my head spin around to follow it!
07/10, 12:04 PM
posted by:
Piablo
How in hell is VW losing money at $1.4 million a piece?? Unreal.
07/10, 12:42 PM
posted by:
Jaguar Sovereign
# 6, When you factor all of the research and development fees to make a car do 253 MPH safely if they do sell all 300 or whatever the number they plan to build is, the cars cost 5 million a piece so technically $1.4 million looks like a bargain.
07/10, 4:03 PM
posted by:
Anonymous
Bow many Z06’s can I buy for the price of one of these? What a waste of money.
07/10, 5:03 PM
posted by:
Pruce
Yeah, really. It would be a waste of money to buy that many Z06’s.
07/10, 8:44 PM
posted by:
chewy
The 5 million dollars number was thrown out by Jeremy Clarkson when he tested the Veyron, a person that has been known to exaggerate things in the past. That means that 1.5 billion was spent on the car, which is reasonable. That could be offset by selling one thousand Veyrons, someting that is possible. I think in the end the production might be upped a little. Also, there are rumors of a Veyron GT version with 1,250 hp and top speed of 252 mph.
07/10, 9:13 PM
posted by:
nist7
True supercar enthusiasts will be ordering the new Ultima GTR720, which beats the Veyron in every single performance category except for top speed (gear limited, so if add extra gear then it can challenge Veyron’s top speed also).
Plus it uses a modified 406ci GM block (custom built by American Speed) pumping out a healthy 720, naturally aspirated, horse power, it is fully street legal including Europe and USA, and it costs about 1/10 as much as the Veyron.
Why shell out a fortune for a very very fast car that you will probably drive very very slowly in-front of ultra-exclusive nightclubs in order to impress supermodels when you can can own a true supercar with much better performance and spirit?
07/10, 11:32 PM
posted by:
Thing2
nist7, why? To get laid by supermodels for just showing up in such an opulent car as the Veyron….
07/11, 3:15 AM
posted by:
Ke
Except nist7 forgets that Veyron is foremost a luxury car and only then a performance car. Try going for a long ride in the Ultima
07/11, 2:50 PM
posted by:
Hemidakota
A good excuse to bring back the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve for competition.
07/11, 2:55 PM
posted by:
v2
First off…the 3 people in MI that bought it were GM and Ford execs because they obviously need some help getting laid.
Secondly #12, I would suppose certain people would eat gold dipped strawberries so they can have a more “Opulent” bowel movement.
Thirdly if you love cars soooo much to buy one of these why in the heck not field a team in motorsports for that type of money instead?
07/13, 6:27 PM
posted by:
nist777
“Except nist7 forgets that Veyron is foremost a luxury car and only then a performance car. Try going for a long ride in the Ultima
Comment by Ke, posted on July11 at 3:15 am
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Ke, you’ll be spending more time at the gas station than actually driving the Veyron