It’s good to know: for Bugatti Veyron an oil change costs $20,000 to $25,000.
With a 252-mph top speed and a 1,001 horsepower engine, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 was the world’s most powerful production sports car. And with a price tag of about $1.7 million, it was also the world’s most expensive new car.
First introduced in the 2006 model year, Bugatti Veyron is still an exotic sports car, with its use of high technology materials and engineering.
And this year, it turns 15.
Exclusively and meticulously hand- built and tailored to individual fabulously well-heeled customers, it is a car few have seen or will ever experience outside the playgrounds of rich Arab oil sheikhs, billionaire corporate owners and the independently very wealthy.
Powered with quad-turbo, 8.0-liter W16 engine, (The Veyron’s “16.4” refers to cylinder and turbocharger count) rated at 1,001 horsepower and producing 922 pound-feet of torque.
All-wheel drive system F1-style, with seven-speed automated manual gearbox. the Veyron is so fast, it needs runways to achieve top speed as it runs out of road due to its tremendous acceleration. It is reputed that the Veyron has a 0-60-mph time of approximately 2.5 seconds and a quarter-mile time in the low 10-second range- which is as fast as some 2000 horsepower dragsters. The top speed is estimated at 252 mph.
The Veyron has 11 radiators and 64 valves for its engine. It needs fuel with a 93 octane or higher to run properly, or your must have the engine detuned by Bugatti or risk damaging it. Note, the four specially – made Michelin PAX Pilot tires are rated at a top speed of 253 mph and cost $6,500 each and have to be changed in France at the Bugatti specialist service center. Speaking of the tires, at 250 mph, the Veyron’s tires will last only fifteen minutes. Fuel economy? Well at top speed, its 26.4-gallon fuel tank will empty in only twelve minutes!
The front windows automatically rise and lock in place at 93 mph for safety and you have to take the rear body panels off to access the engine! Meanwhile the huge rear aerodynamic spoiler is operated by the same hydraulic rams as found on military aircraft.
240 Veyron’s have been sold out of a projected 300 production run and it will cost around $100,000 just for airfreight delivery from France.
