Broad Arrow Auctions, a Hagerty company, is thrilled to offer over 165 collector cars at its annual Amelia Auction, set for 7-8 March 2025, at The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island. Led by a host of sought-after supercars from the collector car hobby’s top marques, Broad Arrow’s team of car specialists has assembled a desirable lineup ranging from the world’s first supercar to today’s most advanced engineering marvels. Among this incredible lineup includes this 2008 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 estimated at $1,800,000 – $2,000,000.
An engineer by trade, Ferdinand Piëch’s ethos toward automotive development is perhaps best summarized by the three-word slogan of the company he helped elevate into a premiere luxury brand: “Vorsprung durch Technik.” Meaning “Progress through Technology,” the Audi motto would not only transform the brand with such audacious designs as the four-wheel drive Quattro and the economical 100, but set the stage for Piëch’s broader progress-driven assault on the automotive industry during his time as head of the Volkswagen Group.
Ascending to the position in 1993, Piëch orchestrated a series of bold acquisitions that would reshape the automotive landscape at the turn of the millennium. These included such hallowed marques as Bentley, Lamborghini, and in 1998, Bugatti – reestablishing the fabled French sports car maker as Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. Piëch’s vision for the modern Bugatti was ambitious and uncompromising, and involved the construction of a sprawling, state-of-the-art factory in the Bugatti’s ancestral home of Molsheim, France. This factory, directly across the street from Château St. Jean where Ettore Bugatti once entertained clients for his beautiful creations, would produce Piëch’s crowning achievement – the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive production car in the world.
Volkswagen tried a series of different concepts in the late 1990s before officially introducing the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show. The performance statistics were as extraordinary as they were groundbreaking: 987 horsepower, 922 pound-feet of torque, a top speed of 253 miles per hour, and a zero to 60 time of just 2.47 seconds (or 119 feet). At the heart of this automotive marvel was a titanic 8.0-liter W16 engine – essentially two narrow-angle V8s joined together and driving a common crankshaft – equipped with four turbochargers and ten radiators. This unit alone, assembled by a select group of eight specialists, required a week to complete.
To harness this immense performance, Bugatti fitted the Veyron with a permanent Haldex four-wheel drive system and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Equally immense braking power came from 15.7 inch, eight-piston front, and 15-inch, six-piston rear carbon-ceramic disc brakes supported by an additional 0.7 G of braking force from the rear air brake – capable of bringing the Veyron from 60 miles per hour to a standstill in 2.2 seconds. All told, the Veyron was the most ostentatious and rapid production road car money could buy at the time of its release.
This outstanding example of the Veyron is one of only 252 16.4 coupes produced, with just 76 completed in United States-market specification. The example offered here is finished in striking and very elegant Black and White over a complementary cream leather interior with black piping, accents, and carpeting. The mileage indicated at the time of cataloging stands at just 3,756 miles, which is certainly commensurate with the superb cosmetic condition the car enjoys today. The car is understood to have always been collector owned with full provenance and service history on file. Given its exhaustive service history and climate-controlled storage, this Veyron truly presents in virtually as new condition. The CARFAX Vehicle History Report on file further supports this presentation, indicating the car’s original titling first in Nevada, followed by Delaware, and finally Pennsylvania. In fact, by 2015, the car had accumulated less than 2,000 miles and did not pass 3,000 miles until about two years thereafter. The car has evidently resided in New York State since 2019, serviced and cared for by experts.
Given its lifetime of careful enjoyment, this elegant example of Bugatti’s revolutionary supercar can be enjoyed guilt-free as Piëch and Volkswagen intended for its record-breaking performance. This Bugatti, offered at Broad Arrow’s Amelia Auction on 7-8 March, presents a rare opportunity to own and drive the car that forever transformed the supercar landscape as we know it today.
To view more thrilling cars on offer at Broad Arrow’s the Amelia Auction, please visit their website at broadarrowauctions.com and be sure to register to bid for this exciting must-attend event.
