A real one-off Bugatti has set a report for the best value paid for a brand new automobile at public sale.
The automobile is the Bugatti Chiron Profilée that the French efficiency marque revealed final month. It went beneath the hammer on Wednesday at an RM Sotheby’s public sale in Paris, the place it offered for 9,792,500 euros (roughly $10.77 million), together with the client’s premium.
The worth is double the pre-auction estimate, and that is a superb factor as Bugatti plans to donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. It additionally smashes the earlier report for a brand new automobile offered at public sale, which was the $7 million paid in 2016 for the five hundredth Ferrari LaFerrari. With regards to the best value paid for any automobile at public sale, the title goes to the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe that offered for 135 million euros ($148.5 million) in 2022.
Unike most one-off automobiles, the Chiron Profilée was developed with the view to supply a number of examples. It was developed in response to Bugatti clients in search of a tamer, extra elegant model of the hardcore, track-focused Chiron Pur Sport launched in early 2020. Nevertheless, increased than anticipated demand for the Chiron typically meant all 500 construct slots for the hypercar have been already accounted for earlier than the Chiron Profilée might be delivered to market.
Bugatti Chiron Profilée
Bugatti Chiron Profilée
Bugatti Chiron Profilée
The Chiron Profilée that was offered is definitely a pre-production unit that has been made authorized to drive on public roads in Europe. As a pre-production unit, it isn’t included within the 500-unit construct run for the Chiron.
Distinctive to the automobile is its small ducktail spoiler, which along with a revised entrance lip spoiler helps to generate enough downforce for the Profilée (the Chiron Pur Sport has an enormous six-foot-wide rear wing). The identify of the automobile is derived from the rear spoiler. It is a nod to one in every of Jean Bugatti’s first creations, the Sort 46, which was nicknamed the Superprofilée and featured a rear part with its personal flick within the tail.
Energy comes from the acquainted quad-turbo 8.0-liter W-16, tuned right here to ship the identical 1,480 hp because the Pur Sport. It helps the Profilée speed up from 0-62 mph in 2.3 seconds, from 0-124 mph in 5.5 seconds, and on to a prime velocity of 236 mph, which is quicker than the Pur Sport. It tops out at 217 mph.