The cost of owning a Bugatti Veyron
#1
01-19-2010, 09:58 AM
The cost of owning a Bugatti Veyron
Bugatti Veyron operating costs so expensive, it's cheaper to use a private jet?
by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed)
There are frightening bills, horrific bills, and Bugatti Veyron bills. The legendarily expensive to buy, it seems that the Veyron is equally expensive to keep running, with some pegging yearly running costs at $300,000. It's so expensive, in fact, that Autocar says there's an owner who trailers his car to a particular driving route, then follows behind in a private jet.
Let's just take the tires, for example: in the U.S., the Michelin Pilot Sport 2s fashioned with the Veyron's unique compound cost about $30,000; in the UK they're £23,500 ($38,216 U.S.). Bugatti recommends you change them every 4,000 kilometers, or 2,500 miles, and at every ten thousand miles the company recommends changing the wheels and tires, which runs north of $50,000.
In between those wheel changes will be things like routine maintenance, with a major annual service setting you back about $20,000. None of this is particularly unexpected so long as you remember the Veyron is more a roadgoing Space Shuttle than a car. And we won't even begin to talk about how expensive pelican insurance has become...
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by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed)
There are frightening bills, horrific bills, and Bugatti Veyron bills. The legendarily expensive to buy, it seems that the Veyron is equally expensive to keep running, with some pegging yearly running costs at $300,000. It's so expensive, in fact, that Autocar says there's an owner who trailers his car to a particular driving route, then follows behind in a private jet.
Let's just take the tires, for example: in the U.S., the Michelin Pilot Sport 2s fashioned with the Veyron's unique compound cost about $30,000; in the UK they're £23,500 ($38,216 U.S.). Bugatti recommends you change them every 4,000 kilometers, or 2,500 miles, and at every ten thousand miles the company recommends changing the wheels and tires, which runs north of $50,000.
In between those wheel changes will be things like routine maintenance, with a major annual service setting you back about $20,000. None of this is particularly unexpected so long as you remember the Veyron is more a roadgoing Space Shuttle than a car. And we won't even begin to talk about how expensive pelican insurance has become...
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#5
01-19-2010, 12:55 PM
Wheel change every 10,000 miles? Maybe if you're driving it like it was built to be driven! If I had one, I think a wheel change every 5,000 miles would be in order. And a new set of undies for my passengers with every single ride! 
Sadly, that is too rich for my blood......
Sadly, that is too rich for my blood......
#8
01-19-2010, 01:25 PM
When I bought my 360 Mo I did research on the cost of ownership.
I figured about $1.50 - $1.80 a mile - FOR A MODENA!!
That has largely been my experience in reality with the car as well.
You can only imagine what a Veyron costs.
It is basically 4 supercars all welded together. It has like a dozen radiators.
I figured about $1.50 - $1.80 a mile - FOR A MODENA!!
That has largely been my experience in reality with the car as well.
You can only imagine what a Veyron costs.
It is basically 4 supercars all welded together. It has like a dozen radiators.
#9
01-19-2010, 02:21 PM
Kind of makes the Switzer cars (and everything else on the planet!) look like a bargain!
Just a quick refresher on what all that buys: https://teamspeed.com/forums/japanes...n-w-video.html
Just a quick refresher on what all that buys: https://teamspeed.com/forums/japanes...n-w-video.html