Well, doing an oilchange on that car is 21 grand, so why not spend twice that to replace a fuel tank?
It's the tire replacement cost that really gets me. 30k for a set of 2500 mile tires. Unless you do a top speed run. Do that for 15 minutes and they're done. They can only be removed and mounted in France. 70k job. Every 2nd time you change tires, you throw the wheels away and buy another 80-120k set of those. Insane.
That car does nothing for me. This information doesn't help.
Well then buy the Chiron instead. Those tires are more widely available, don't cost 30k, and you don't have to send them to France to get dismounted and mounted. See? Practical!
Veyron owner to personal assistant:
"Why do you bother me with such trivial matters? Pay it from petty cash and never speak of this again."
So many of these cars will never be driven anyway. They go into a collectors museum and then show up at Barrett Jackson with 100 miles on the odometer and sell for stupid money, so the next guy can put it in his museum.
Somebody give me a Veyron, I'll drive it 30k miles a year and figure out how to DIY everything 
An engineer once told me he thought the Veyron was an exercise in actively finding the most complicated and expensive way to do everything. Somehow people bought it.
Makes purchasing a lightly used 458 seem down right responsible.
Its because you maintain this thing more like an aircraft than a car.
If you're actually going to drive it and rarely break 100 mph, I bet you can cheat those intervals A LOT.
Are you kidding? It makes airplanes look cheap. More like a spacecraft.
Appleseed said:Are you kidding? It makes airplanes look cheap. More like a spacecraft.
I read an article the other about the Nighthawk, ie Air Force One on steroids (yes I know it becomes AFO when the president steps on board). There is one always ready and waiting at the AFB in Nebraska.
$160,000 PER HOUR is the running cost.
I dunno, safety at 260 mph is vastly different than at 55 mph. What's an Indy car of F1 car's tires cost and how long do they last? How about brakes? Speed costs money. The amazing thing is the development of tires, the Veyron's tires were unthinkable a few years ago, and the Chiron already has better ones. In a few years, 300 mph 30,000 mile All-seasons will be a thing.
These prices don't surprise or offend me. Let's face it, by the time you are into Veyron ownership territory you already have at least a Gulfstream and probably a Bell for those short hops into and out of the city. I bet their net worth is well north of $100m (Quick Googlymoogly and it appears to be north of $200m) so these prices are to be expected.
I actually like the Veyron and Chiron. The Ford GT and Bugatti are the only Hypercars that impress me. The GT as it really is a race car tamed for the road, and the Bugatti as it's the ultimate expression of style, technology etc. The are the respective pinnacles of opposite ends of the hypercar spectrum. Other than those cars the rest of the $400k+ vehicles just seem to be crass flashy compensation devises.
Note, I'm not throwing in plebeian super cars like R8's and 911 Turbo's in this, nor super GT's like Astons and AMG's etc. I like a lot of those cars.
Oh, the price doesn't bother nor offend me one bit either, it's just beyond my scale of comprehension.
They are amazing cars that can do 250 mph plus....
I wish my neighbor had one :)
I saw somewhere that a McLaren F1 (car, not openwheel racer) tire replacement involves renting a track so that the suspension can be tuned to the specific set of tires.
yup... i have a feeling that some people are shortcutting that..
Bugatti doesn't make supercars, it makes lear jets that just happen to be street legal.
Klayfish said:So many of these cars will never be driven anyway. They go into a collectors museum and then show up at Barrett Jackson with 100 miles on the odometer and sell for stupid money, so the next guy can put it in his museum.
I understand wanting to protect something that costs as much as a Bugatti does. What really blows me away, is the people that have enough money that they don't care about protecting their multi-million dollar cars, and thrash them all over the same way that we might thrash a $1000 CL find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-CnXj0vLc
In reply to STM317 :
If I were going to buy a million dollar car, I'd thrash it like a rented race horse.
Other investments yield better returns than cars.
In reply to STM317 :
Well Google tells me the average US family has a net worth of $300K. Compare that to the average Bug owner with a net worth of $200m. Pro rated that means them thrashing a Bug-ratty on ice, snow or mud is like the Average American hooning around in the back 40 in a $3,000 car.
This makes an Aero L-39 Albatros look downright sensible. And it’s twice as fast.
Daylan C said:An engineer once told me he thought the Veyron was an exercise in actively finding the most complicated and expensive way to do everything. Somehow people bought it.
Those same people buy million dollar watches that have 700 parts, because they have 700 parts.
In reply to Mndsm :
Honestly I think those watches are cooler than a Veyron.
The0retical said:In reply to STM317 :
If I were going to buy a million dollar car, I'd thrash it like a rented race horse.
Other investments yield better returns than cars.
You’ve not been paying attention to the classic car market, I assume.
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