Jalopnik: Bugatti

This 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO Is Now The Second Most Expensive Car Ever Sold

Tom Joslin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST

A 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO sold this past week for the unbelievable sum of $31,856,726 (£20.2 million), making it the most expensive car ever sold in Britain and the second most expensive car ever known to have been sold anywhere in the world. More »

Watch A Bugatti Veyron Owner Hit 225 MPH On Public Road

Raphael Orlove — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:00 EST

When you own a Bugatti Veyron, seven high-speed runs on public roads will take you up to 225 miles an hour. Yes, he gets pulled over and no, we don't know how much his ticket is going to cost him. More »

The World's Most Secret Garage Entrance Is Like A Tunnel To Tron

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:15:00 EST

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This isn't a movie set. This isn't a drawing. This isn't heaven. No, it's actually the tunnel entrance to what may be the world's most secret supercar garage. OK, so maybe it is heaven. More »

Über Fail: $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron loses drag race to Nissan GT-R

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST

The appeal of the Bugatti Veyron is it's so fast and so well-engineered any obscenely wealthy person can hop into it and be faster than other, poorer, people. Not this guy. He appears to not understand how the vehicle's launch control works and sits there, lamely, as the guy in the GT-R blows him away. More »

Mighty Bugatti Veyron slowed down by speed bumps

Patrick Frawley — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST

The Bugatti Veyron is a modern wonder. It is screamingly fast, it is magnificently well-controlled, it is ridiculously expensive. As the video amply shows, though, it is also all but incapable of handling speed bumps. More »

$4.72 million 1/8 scale Lamborghini Aventador model headed to auction

Tom Joslin — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST

This is the most expensive model car in the world, at least it will be when it sells this month at auction in New York. It's a 1/8th scale model of a Lamborghini Aventador built with gold, platinum, carbon fiber and diamonds by Robert Guelpen, a German car model specialist. More »

This is why people think Bugatti drivers are asshats

Raphael Orlove — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:00:00 EST

In a flagrant demonstration of being richer than you, a Veyron driver got a ticket for parking in a disabled spot today. The Daily Mail reported that the driver wasn't exactly concerned with the cost of his ticket, picked up in a very rich corner of Essex, UK. More »

Man "intentionally" drove $2.2 million Bugatti Veyron into lake

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:30:00 EST

A Texas court may soon decide if the man who drove his Bugatti Veyron into a lake was committing fraud after his insurance company claimed he crashed the car on purpose to collect $2.2 million in insurance money. Wait, it wasn't a low-flying pelican? You don't say. More »

Four door Mercedes with a terrible Bugatti Veyron body kit isn't fooling anyone

Tom Joslin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:00:00 EST

Considering the Bugatti Veyron in Super Sport trim stickered for a whopping $2.4 million and a mere 30 were made, it's not surprising there are a whole lot of people in the world who want one but don't have one. Sometimes this unfulfilled desire can push people to do pretty crazy things, like dressing up your older full size Mercedes with a Veyron "body kit". More »

The 1970s land yacht Bugatti doesn't want you to know about

Raphael Orlove — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EDT

Before Bugatti was resurrected by Volkswagen, and even before Romano Artioli brought the brand back in 1991 with the EB110, two Californians built this car, a 1970s vision of French ultra-luxury. More »

The wonders of lepidopteran roadkill

Peter Orosz — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:00 EDT

When it comes to bugs on your grille, it’s hard to top a European Peacock butterfly (Inachis io) hit by a 1927 Bugatti. Photographed in Budapest by our ex-intern Máté Petrány, it is a study in roadkill perfection, the insect’s wings spread as if mounted by a meticulous entomologist, mostly intact but displaying just the right amount of damage. More »

Eleven supercars owned by African dictator's son seized in Paris

Justin Hyde — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:30:00 EDT

How do you build the world's most expensive car hauler? You do what Paris police did this week: Take a regular car hauler and fill it with 11 of the world's rarest supercars seized from the son of a notorious African dictator. More »

How Lufthansa gets the world's most exotic cars airborne

Peter Orosz — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:00:00 EDT

To celebrate their 100th anniversary in the air cargo business, Lufthansa's pulled together a gallery of fascinating cars they’ve made airborne over the years. Lamborghini Diablo? Check. Bugatti EB110? Check. Ferrari F1 cars for Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher? Check and check—and check out the full gallery. More »

The Bugatti L'Or Blanc is the world's most delicate supercar

Justin Hyde — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:00:00 EDT

For those who believe Bugatti creates expensive pieces of furniture masquerading as super cars, this will only add to their fire: The Bugatti L'Or Blanc, a partnership with a Berlin porcelain maker to create the world's most delicate Veyron. More »

A Bugatti replica built for Snooki

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:30:00 EDT

This is what happens when Delahaye USA, a company from New Jersey, attempts to build a replica of one of the most esteemed and sophisticated classics ever, the Bugatti 57S. Might as well call the carbon fiber "Bella Figura" the "57S Atlantique City." More »

British reality-show celeb orders Barbie's Bugatti

Mike Spinelli — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:30:00 EDT

Katie Price, the UK reality-show contestant who parlayed 15 minutes of fame into a $66 million media empire, has ordered her Veyron to be painted the same shade of pink as her Range Rover, VW Beetle, horse box and 125cc scooter. More »

Cheap Bugatti owner takes Veyron to coin-operated car wash

Justin Hyde — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT

Even nearly seven years after its introduction, the multimillion-dollar Bugatti Veyron is still the pinnacle of automotive engineering — enough so that seeing one of the fewer than 300 built taken to a California coin-operated car wash nearly sparked an intervention. More »

Bugatti wrapped in red chrome by Dartz

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Let's face it: Once you've clad a military truck in fake whale-penis leather, what do you do for an encore? Perhaps wrapping a Bugatti Veyron in red chrome will do the trick. At least for Kostyantyn, the adult-toy-superstore king of Dnipropetrovsk. More »

Buy this "Bugatti Veyron" for $89,000

Mike Spinelli — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:30:00 EDT

Replica builders are an odd breed — as dedicated to their craft as those guys who once built ships in bottles. A Florida man built this "Bugatti Veyron" from a Mercury Cougar, and it can be yours for $89,000. More »

What car made the Bugatti Veyron SS back down from a fight?

Bill Caswell — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Remember the playground bully? The kid twice your size who repeated first grade just so he could be larger and stronger? In the automotive world, that bully's name is Bugatti, and I just saw him back down from a fight with something even more menacing. More »

The Bugatti Veyron L'Or Blanc is a $2.3 million tea set

Mike Spinelli — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EDT

Behold, you lovers of highly-decorated, ridiculously expensive, German/French tea sets. It's the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport L'Or Blanc, a version of the recently updated Veyron, with porcelain fittings by Germany's Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM). The one-off is reportedly worth $2.3 million. More »

Last Bugatti Veyron sold, other than the other ones

Justin Hyde — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EDT

The last of the 300 regular Bugatti Veyron 16.4's fresh from its factory in the French countryside has been spoken for and will be delivered next year. And you thought you would be rich enough by now. More »

Drifting a $1.4 million Bugatti is easier than you think

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EDT

The trick to drifting the $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron without destroying it is to place it in the center of a parking lot, get out of the Veyron and jump into a Toyota Supra belonging to a driver whose skills are only outmatched by the credit limit on his American Express Centurion card. More »

How to install a $5 million Bugatti

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:30:00 EDT

By now you should be familiar with fashion mogul Ralph Lauren's classic car collection, which includes the rarest and most beautiful cars ever built and has been on a traveling show around the world. But how do you install a car in a museum? More »

Flo Rida busted for Bugatti Veyron DUI in Florida

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:30:00 EDT

Rapper Flo Rida opened himself up for a litany of puns about being "low" when he failed a sobriety test while driving his $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron in Miami. He blew a .185, which is twice the legal limit. More »

What a 1920s Bugatti Veyron would look like

Peter Orosz — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EDT

I took this photo of an unpainted Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport and its 8-liter W16 engine at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show with my father’s old Minolta XD-7 camera on Kodak’s T-MAX P3200 film, a black and white negative developed for extreme low light. A contemporary motor show with its profusion of high-power spot lights is, of course, the antithesis of extreme low light, but combined with the T-MAX, I got an image which reminds me of those old black and white photos from Bugatti’s original, lightweight heyday. Of spindly blue magnesium cars racing under the Mediterranean sun, under a blue sky never captured on film. More »

How I found the first Bugatti EB110 prototype on an Italian street

Peter Orosz — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:30:00 EDT

If one likes supercars, a first visit to Modena is loaded with subtle anticipation. There is surely a Ferrari parked on every medieval corner! The truth is stranger, more subtle, and rather more obscure. It is a Bugatti that looks nothing like a Bugatti. More »

The $240,000 Bugatti über desk

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:00:00 EDT

A new Bugatti Veyron costs around $1.6 million, depending on how you outfit it. A 1936 57SC Bugatti Atlantic fetched $30 million at auction. This Bugatti-inspired desk, then, may seem like a value at just $240,000. But it isn't. More »

Watch this parade of 500 Chinese supercars

Justin Hyde — Wed, 18 May 2011 15:30:00 EDT

Earlier this month, Shanghai opened its Formula 1 circuit for its SIC Club Challenge, something that translates through Google as "super running carnival." With more than 500 supercars looping the track, the name sounds entirely apt. More »

The world's most ostentatious Bugatti Veyron

Justin Hyde — Mon, 16 May 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Beverly Hills designer and car collector Bijan Pakzad died last month, just after signing off on a collaboration with Bugatti for a custom Veyron Grand Sport. In tribute, Bugatti released this video to show just what was coming — a typically overdone combination of polished aluminum, Bijan's signature yellow, and a magnum of perfume. More »

McLaren's next car: a Bugatti-killing, 799-hp "Mega Mac"

Justin Hyde — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:45:00 EDT

With the production of the MP4-12C still ramping, Autocar says McLaren already has the sequel in the works: a "Mighty Mac" with 799 hp, designed to top the Bugatti Veyron as world's fastest production supercar. More »

The amazing automobiles of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

Tom Joslin — Sun, 15 May 2011 09:00:00 EDT

Even though the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance was held in March, when Jalopnik reader Todd Hollinghead sent us pictures last week of the amazing machinery featured at this year's event, we had to share a small selection of them with you (see the rest here). More »

Hear 17 cars from Ralph Lauren's awe-inspiring collection

Justin Hyde — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:30:00 EDT

If you can't make the Paris showing of 17 classic vehicles from designer Ralph Lauren's collection for the typical reasons — busy summer polo schedule, breaking in a new yacht captain, etc., etc. — you can at least hear them. More »

Bugatti, Monotracer, Koenigsegg star in Down On The Street, Monaco edition

Justin Hyde — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:00 EDT

How many supercars can you spot in this brief video shot on the streets of Monaco by a BMW driver enchanted by a Monotracer? It's like the world's wealthy villains decided to convene in a convention center. More »

How the Best Buy con artist spent millions on supercars

Justin Hyde — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:30:00 EDT

Our story on 11 supercars impounded from con artist Russell Cole after bilking Best Buy out of $31 million brought in these photos from someone who used to tend to Cole's collection back when he'd swap day-old Bentleys because he didn't like the color. More »

Owner crashes $2.9 million first production Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EDT

Rumors of a Bugatti Veyron crash in France this summer are true, and worse than originally thought. The smashed übercar was a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. And not just any Veyron Grand Sport. It was the $2.9 million Chassis #001. More »

The $1.5 million Veyron dipped in a Texas lake hits a salvage auction

Justin Hyde — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:30:00 EDT

It's been more than a year since a Texan drove his $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron into a lake in the most expensive case of distracted driving yet known. Now you can own the baptized Veyron, but it needs work. More »

15 foreign exotic cars the feds won't seize

Keith Barry, Wired Autopia — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:30:00 EDT

Our story about the crackdown against imported Nissan Skylines raised another set of questions about which foreign exotics can be brought into the United States. Keith Barry at Wired's Autopia explores the murky world of "show and display." — Ed. More »

Watch the first Bugatti Veyron SuperSport delivered in the U.S.

Ray Wert — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:15:00 EST

DragTimes has captured in photos and video the very first U.S. delivery of the $1.8 million Bugatti Veyron SuperSport. It's a one-of-five World Record Edition — referring to the 267 MPH record-setting high speed. More »