Bugatti Veyron 16/4 (expert review)

• BUGATTI VEYRON


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  Just five special edition Bugatti Veyrons show off the $4 million supercar’s aluminium and carbon fibre frames.
  
  The world’s most expensive car now doesn’t come with paint.
  Bugatti is building just five special versions of its $3 million Veyron EB 16.4 supercar with a special ‘naked’ finish that does without any paint.
  


• Instead, the special versions of the Veyron 16.4 showcase the shiny aluminium panels and futuristic carbon fibre in what is the world’s fastest car.
  


• Bugatti says it is reacting to customer demands with the unique Veyron 16.4s by making them a bit more special.
  


• Instead of an estimated price of $3 million dollars for the Bugatti supercar – if one were ever sold in Australia – the special Veyron 16.4’s price would likely be closer to $4 million.
  Bugatti is asking a hefty 1.4 million Euros for the special Veyron, minus taxes and any other statutory charges.
  


• That’s 400,000 Euros more than the regular Veyron and translates to some 2.3 million Australian dollars. By the time you add the import duty, GST, dealer margin, luxury car tax and stamp duty the price stretches to somewhere around $4 million, depending on the exchange rate on any given day.
  


• The special Veyron 16.4 also boasts different wheels and other minor changes in an effort to better appeal to typically discerning markets.
  


• Bugatti says customers never complained about the power and performance of the Veyron 16.4.
  Described as the Concord of the motoring world, the Veyron has an 8.0-litre 16-cylinder engine with four turbos.
  


• It sends its 736kW of power – four times that of a six-cylinder family sedan - to all four wheels and can accelerate to 100km/h in a Formula One-like 2.9 seconds.
  The Bugatti Veyron has a top speed of 407km/h, a figure verified by independent testing.
  


• Just 100 versions of the Veyron have been sold around the world. All have the steering wheel on the left-hand side, so they can’t be registered in Australia.
  Bugatti says it is already holding orders for another year’s worth of production