One-of-a-kind, ultra-fast luxury cars are notoriously hard to get, even for the extremely well-heeled, due to their nasty tendency of being sold out prior to official release.
But if you want something hard enough, you’ll get it – which probably explains how the Bugatti Chiron Profilee – the very last car to roll out of Bugatti’s factory in Molsheim, France, equipped with a W16 engine – managed to fetch a jaw-dropping hammer price of €9,792,500 (around S$14 million) at the RM Sotheby’s auction earlier this month.
Sans the buyer’s fee paid to the international auction house, that’s still over S$12 million, or around three times the price of a production model Chiron without all the bells and whistles.
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