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Noah Joseph
By Noah Joseph RSS feed
Oct 5th 2014
Between Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti, the Volkswagen Group has no lack of prestige marques under its umbrella. And while some of these marques may produce models that compete against each other, each seems to be profitable enough in its own right to justify its existence. But what about Bentley and Bugatti? Surely these marques cater to the same customers, right?
Not according to their shared CEO. "The clientele between Bentley and Bugatti is remarkably different," said Wolfgang Dürheimer in an interview with Bloomberg. "The Bentley customer on average owns 8 cars. The average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, 3 jets and 1 yacht."
That may be a slight exaggeration (we'd have expected three yachts and one jet), but it puts things into perspective: Bentleys are for the one percent. Bugattis are for the one percent of that one percent. Which only goes to show why it's taken Bugatti over eight years to sell 450 Veyrons – a number of units it would take Bentley about two weeks to move, albeit at about one tenth the price.
With only about 20 units left to go, the Veyron is about to roar off into the sunset, after which Bugatti will introduce its replacement sometime late next year or early in 2016. The Alsatian marque is reportedly working on three different versions, and the final design – thanks in no small part to a hybrid assist – is expected too pack some 25 percent more power than the 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 in the current Veyron, which produces 987 horsepower in standard form and 1,184 hp in the Super Sport and Vitesse models.
News Source: Bloomberg
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Damn....I need to do some work. This beats my measly 14 cars, one jet and a yacht.
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The Sultan of Brunei has 5 EB110s (!) in his car collection (some say it has up to 5000 cars - many of them unique and very rare) as well as a Veyron.
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......and a 3 inch limp dick. :o
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plenty of skinny little black rap stars own these , so its not a big deal
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Damn....I need to do some work. This beats my measly 14 cars, one jet and a yacht.
Lol - good one
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Damn....I need to do some work. This beats my measly 14 cars, one jet and a yacht.
We at get big don't consider this a yacht
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We at get big don't consider this a yacht
We don't consider this a jet either!
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plenty of skinny little black rap stars own these , so its not a big deal
Considering they only sold 450 over the last eight years, I wouldn't say plenty of rap stars own the Veyron.
List price is $1.7 Million.
A replacement transmission for the Veyron costs just over US$120,000.
It uses special Michelin PAX run-flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron's top speed, and cost US$25,000 per set.
Bugatti Veyron has a total of ten radiators:
3 heat exchangers for the air-to-liquid intercoolers.
3 engine radiators.
1 for the air conditioning system.
1 transmission oil radiator.
1 differential oil radiator.
1 engine oil radiator
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My name is Elmer J Fudd... millionaire... I own a mansion, a yacht and a Bugatti.
That is a fugly looking car.
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Considering they only sold 450 over the last eight years, I wouldn't say plenty of rap stars own the Veyron.
List price is $1.7 Million.
A replacement transmission for the Veyron costs just over US$120,000.
It uses special Michelin PAX run-flat tyres, designed specifically to accommodate the Veyron's top speed, and cost US$25,000 per set.
Bugatti Veyron has a total of ten radiators:
3 heat exchangers for the air-to-liquid intercoolers.
3 engine radiators.
1 for the air conditioning system.
1 transmission oil radiator.
1 differential oil radiator.
1 engine oil radiator
Black rapper doesn't care about any of that he buys purely for the fact its the most expensive supercar. You either buy a Veyron because you either want to be seen as having lots of money or you have horrible taste in cars.
There are MANY people that can afford to buy one but just don't , most likely because they have good taste.
My boss happens to own a 50 foot catamaran powerboat with twin helicopter engines that put out around 3000hp each and is capable of over 250mph , over $2 million usd invested so far and counting , propellers alone costing him $28 000. This thing is just a toy for him just like his $300,000 cars and yacht.
My point is just because you can afford a Veyron doesn't mean you are some sort of elite rich or in a special category of wealth because really , there are MANY speed enthusiasts who can afford one but didn't buy it because its such an ugly car and some millionaires have different ideas of what they see in a car or toy.
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We don't consider this a jet either!
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lol
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Arnold has one driving around LA
I've spoken out about the veyron, never got the hype nor cared about it, oh well
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That article is bullshit do these guys look like the one percent of the one percent to you.
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never heard of a bugatti until this thread
so basically super white wealth and hebrew pop and hip hop "artists" have them?
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hahaha, FMW Jr got three of those. now, he has to buy 9 @ $2M a piece since there will be 3 different models in 2016. Broke before his last fight.
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what a waste of money....1.7 million dollars could change somebody's life forever...or it can buy a car that will sit in a garage with a bunch of other nice cars.
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The world truly is fucked. :/
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Arnie letting his new hoe drive his car
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The world truly is fucked. :/
Think.
The World has always been Fucked.
It seems part of our nature :(
It's just more evident with so much instant media.
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what a waste of money....1.7 million dollars could change somebody's life forever...or it can buy a car that will sit in a garage with a bunch of other nice cars.
For some high millionaire esp billionaires it doesn't matter, 1 to 2 mil is nothing
Only people that think otherwise are the f aggot liberals who shout "spread the wealth" bs ::)
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never heard of a bugatti until this thread
so basically super white wealth and hebrew pop and hip hop "artists" have them?
Yeah you have to be wealthy to own one of these but I think super rich white guys will mostly be driven around in black bullet proof benzs. It's a look at me thing for these "artists"
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Arnold has one driving around LA
I've spoken out about the veyron, never got the hype nor cared about it, oh well
I'm not a big fan of the Veyron either. Something tells me a VW built quad turbo W16 isn't very reliable or easy to fix.
All I really got out of the article is if you don't already own 84 cars, 3 jets and a yatch, then you shouldn't buy a Veyron.
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I'm not a big fan of the Veyron either. Something tells me a VW built quad turbo W16 isn't very reliable or easy to fix.
All I really got out of the article is if you don't already own 84 cars, 3 jets and a yatch, then you shouldn't buy a Veyron.
Which is utter bullshit.
Veyron fans always make them out to be more prestigious and unaffordable than they really are.
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Of course. But one can always still have hope that things could change. Silly as that thought might be.
Think.
The World has always been Fucked.
It seems part of our nature :(
It's just more evident with so much instant media.
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Gotta say if I where super rich I too would have the toys. I would also not be able to live with myself unless I gave more away than I spent on myself, that is to those who really need help.
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BUGATTI??sounds like mid east cuisine
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That article is bullshit do these guys look like the one percent of the one percent to you.
(http://www.koonadance.ug/admin/storythumbs/Drake-Bugatti-2.jpg)
(http://teamspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39984&d=1262990853)
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Don't know if they are the original owners, but many of the Bugatti Veyrons have been owned by other people. they haven't made that many since 2005 (405ish), and they are having a hard time selling the last of them.
Now, you can buy a Lamborghini Huracan and GT-R that can beat it's 0-60 time, for a mere fraction of the price (thanks to dual clutch transmissions). of course you are not gonna get the top speed. And of course the Hennessey has beaten it's top speed.
The Veyron is a good excerise in what happens when you can throw money and engineering into a project...it has been said that the replacement model goals will be top 275 if not higher.
The Bugattis that I do like
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Here is the question, those three pictured with their Veyrons, do think that you will probably ever see them at a HPDE or Cars and Coffee (please correct me if I am wrong)? Jay Leno has taken his McLaren P1 to a Cars and Coffee event. It shows you who is a true enthusiast and who just buys it for the name.
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what a waste of money....1.7 million dollars could change somebody's life forever...or it can buy a car that will sit in a garage with a bunch of other nice cars.
what kind of liberal bullshit is this?
it's nobody's responsibility to provide for anybody else (besides your children).
just because somebody can afford a 1.7million dollar car, he deserves to be shamed for not giving it away to some poor bum who's too incompetent to provide for himself?
fucking liberals always wanting to punish success and those who make wise choices.
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Damn this is sick
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Damn this is sick
40 million dollars. Ralph Lauren's "collection" is the epitome of class and style.
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Gotta say if I where super rich I too would have the toys. I would also not be able to live with myself unless I gave more away than I spent on myself, that is to those who really need help.
That is very Honourable of you.
When you get that Rich pls remember Me.. ;)
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how many people would find this Ugly Bugatti sexier than the Aventador?.....if you say Bugatti has more sex appeal, then something is wrong with you...Bugatti looks like a bullfrog.. ;D
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Italians exotics will always rule in the super high end cars esp ferrari
Therefore ferrari and Lamborghini has ten times the appeal cause of its name and pedigree
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That article is bullshit do these guys look like the one percent of the one percent to you.
(http://www.koonadance.ug/admin/storythumbs/Drake-Bugatti-2.jpg)
(http://teamspeed.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39984&d=1262990853)
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Other than Jay Z, the answer is no.....and the other two don't own the Bugatti. Personally I think its a fugly piece of shit