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The last unit of the fastest car in the world was sold: the Bugatti Chiron records in his goodbye

2023-02-07T10:32:22.083Z


It is a one-off that was auctioned in Paris: the buyer paid more than 10 million dollars for it. When Bugatti confirmed in December that it would auction the Chiron Profilée , the special edition of a single copy to say goodbye to its sports car that it is already an icon, the expectation immediately rose and it was easy to anticipate an intense battle between the most die-hard fans (and wealthy) of the brand. But reality surpassed all imagination: when RM Sotheby's house lowered the hammer,


When Bugatti confirmed in December that it would auction the Chiron Profilée

, the special edition of a single copy to say goodbye to its sports car that it is already an icon, the expectation immediately rose and it was easy to anticipate an intense battle between the most die-hard fans (and wealthy) of the brand.

But reality surpassed all imagination: when

RM Sotheby's house lowered the hammer, the bid had reached US$ 10.76 million

,

the highest figure ever paid for a zero kilometer at auction

.

The amount – represented in US currency for reference, but in reality the operation was for 9,792,500 euros –

is more than double the US$ 5.2 million projected by the most optimistic calculations for the event, which was held held in Paris

and received offers both from those present and by telephone and online.

And it had its solidarity facet: a percentage of the proceeds,

Bugatti

herself confirmed , will be allocated to charity.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

Good news, then, that this Bugatti Chiron Profilée has established a new brand, which until now was held by the US$7 million paid in 2016 for the

500th

Ferrari

LaFerrari .

However, if it is the highest price paid at auction for any car, that is, including used ones, it is still far behind: the title goes to a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, which was sold last year. for no less than US$ 148.5 million euros.

"We wanted to give any devotee of the Bugatti brand a fair chance to acquire this unique car," Bugatti president Christophe Piochon explained of the methodology chosen to sell it. He said: "It is, in every way, a unique piece. in Bugatti history, and a true collector's item."

Last Bugatti Chiron: the height of the exclusive

Originally, the brand planned to manufacture 30 units

, but the high demand for the standard version of the Chiron forced it to back down with the idea, because it conflicted with Bugatti's premise of producing only 500 units of this car in all its variants.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

However, and even limiting itself to a single copy, the Molsheim house had to break its self-imposed commitment, because by the time it auctioned the Profilée that quota had already been covered.

How did you justify it?

Simple: the argument is that as it is a pre-production unit –approved to circulate on public roads in European territory, yes– it cannot be counted among the 500 official production units.

"We knew that what we had created was too beautiful to hide," said Piochon himself, as if summarizing the story in other words.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

With the first sketches drawn in 2020,

the Bugatti Chiron Profilée was born in response to requests from its own customers

, who were looking for a more elegant version and not as focused on the track as the Chiron Pur Sport, launched earlier that same year.

As its name suggests -and beyond the nod to the Type 46 designed by Jean Bugatti, nicknamed Superprofilée-, for this car Bugatti placed the emphasis on profiling, aiming to achieve greater stability at high speeds from the maximum possible aerodynamic efficiency.

And that's where its small duck tail spoiler also comes into play, which replaces the huge one carried by the Pur Sport and which perfectly complements the front spoiler.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

But none of this would make sense if it were not accompanied by

the 8.0-liter W16 engine with 4 turbochargers

that also says goodbye in this act, a true beast that

allows the car to deliver about 1,460 HP of power at 6,700 rpm

, in addition to a torque of 1,600 Nm between 2,000 rpm and 6,000 rpm.

Thus, and as a result of all this, the car can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in no more than 2.3 seconds, to 200 km/h in 5.5 seconds and to 300 km/h in 12.4 seconds.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

It comes as no surprise, then, that the Bugatti Chiron Profilee reaches a top speed of 380 km/h.

In other words, it ended up being even faster than the Pur Sport, of which it claims to be a less radical derivative: the latter's speedometer marks a maximum of 349 km/h.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

Finished on the outside in the exclusive Argent Atlantique silver color combined with Bleu Royal blue, it shows off wheels also designed for the occasion and that complete an exterior in perfect harmony with what happens in the passenger compartment: there the woven leather that covers the doors dominates the scene. door panels and the central tunnel, which is finished off with matt black anodized aluminum on the console.

Bugatti Chiron Profile.

It was the last 0km Bugatti Chiron to be sold

.

And he did it with a record, just as in August 2019 he had left his name in the records of extreme speed: at that time,

a Chiron Super Sport 300+ reached the figure of 490.48 kilometers per hour on average

, a brand that for now could not be surpassed by other cars that failed in the attempt.

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Source: clarin

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