Broad Arrow Auctions, a Hagerty firm, is thrilled to supply over 165 collector automobiles at its annual Amelia Public sale, set for 7-8 March 2025, at The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island. Led by a bunch of sought-after supercars from the collector automotive passion’s prime marques, Broad Arrow’s staff of automotive specialists has assembled a fascinating lineup starting from the world’s first supercar to as we speak’s most superior engineering marvels. Amongst this unbelievable lineup contains this 2008 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 estimated at $1,800,000 – $2,000,000.
An engineer by commerce, Ferdinand Piëch’s ethos towards automotive improvement is probably finest summarized by the three-word slogan of the corporate he helped elevate right into a premiere luxurious model: “Vorsprung durch Technik.” That means “Progress by Know-how,” the Audi motto wouldn’t solely rework the model with such audacious designs because the four-wheel drive Quattro and the economical 100, however set the stage for Piëch’s broader progress-driven assault on the automotive business throughout his time as head of the Volkswagen Group.
Ascending to the place in 1993, Piëch orchestrated a sequence of daring acquisitions that may reshape the automotive panorama on the flip of the millennium. These included such hallowed marques as Bentley, Lamborghini, and in 1998, Bugatti – reestablishing the fabled French sports activities automotive maker as Bugatti Cars S.A.S. Piëch’s imaginative and prescient for the trendy Bugatti was formidable and uncompromising, and concerned the development of a sprawling, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility within the Bugatti’s ancestral dwelling of Molsheim, France. This manufacturing facility, immediately throughout the road from Château St. Jean the place Ettore Bugatti as soon as entertained shoppers for his stunning creations, would produce Piëch’s crowning achievement – the quickest, strongest, and most costly manufacturing automotive on the earth.
Volkswagen tried a sequence of various ideas within the late Nineteen Nineties earlier than formally introducing the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 on the 2005 Tokyo Motor Present. The efficiency statistics have been as extraordinary as they have been groundbreaking: 987 horsepower, 922 pound-feet of torque, a prime pace of 253 miles per hour, and a zero to 60 time of simply 2.47 seconds (or 119 toes). On the coronary heart of this automotive marvel was a titanic 8.0-liter W16 engine – primarily two narrow-angle V8s joined collectively and driving a standard crankshaft – geared up with 4 turbochargers and ten radiators. This unit alone, assembled by a choose group of eight specialists, required every week to finish.
To harness this immense efficiency, Bugatti fitted the Veyron with a everlasting Haldex four-wheel drive system and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Equally immense braking energy got here from 15.7 inch, eight-piston entrance, and 15-inch, six-piston rear carbon-ceramic disc brakes supported by a further 0.7 G of braking pressure from the rear air brake – able to bringing the Veyron from 60 miles per hour to a standstill in 2.2 seconds. All advised, the Veyron was probably the most ostentatious and speedy manufacturing street automotive cash might purchase on the time of its launch.
This excellent instance of the Veyron is one among solely 252 16.4 coupes produced, with simply 76 accomplished in United States-market specification. The instance supplied right here is completed in hanging and really elegant Black and White over a complementary cream leather-based inside with black piping, accents, and carpeting. The mileage indicated on the time of cataloging stands at simply 3,756 miles, which is actually commensurate with the excellent beauty situation the automotive enjoys as we speak. The automotive is known to have all the time been collector owned with full provenance and repair historical past on file. Given its exhaustive service historical past and climate-controlled storage, this Veyron actually presents in nearly as new situation. The CARFAX Automobile Historical past Report on file additional helps this presentation, indicating the automotive’s unique titling first in Nevada, adopted by Delaware, and at last Pennsylvania. In reality, by 2015, the automotive had gathered lower than 2,000 miles and didn’t cross 3,000 miles till about two years thereafter. The automotive has evidently resided in New York State since 2019, serviced and cared for by consultants.
Given its lifetime of cautious enjoyment, this elegant instance of Bugatti’s revolutionary supercar might be loved guilt-free as Piëch and Volkswagen supposed for its record-breaking efficiency. This Bugatti, supplied at Broad Arrow’s Amelia Public sale on 7-8 March, presents a uncommon alternative to personal and drive the automotive that perpetually reworked the supercar panorama as we all know it as we speak.
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