What in the devil does one do with a $2.4 million Bugatti? According to Emirates247.com, which quotes a Bloomberg report, some chap in the United Arab Emirates has plunked down that sort of cash, or Dh9million, on this jalopy. Couldn’t he have just gone ahead and bought an airplane? Oh right, you wouldn’t fly an airplane down the street to pick up a quart of milk.
It would be understandable that a person who can just get from here to there in a hooptie that’s older than their college age children might wonder what could you possibly put on or in a car that would crank the price up that high? Well, first of all, this car is a Bugatti, an insanely top of the line luxury car of which few are made in the first place. Just buying your standard Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 will set you back about a million and a half dollars. The thing has a quad turbocharged W16 engine — hand crafted! — and the writer doesn’t even know what that means. The average Joe probably can’t even afford to visit a Bugatti showroom.
Ironically, Bugatti is now owned by Volkswagen, the Car of the People.
Ettore Bugatti was born in Milan and came to what was then France to found his car company in 1909. He was from a family of artists and considered himself an artist as well. He longed to make beautiful, nearly perfect cars, and he did. If one peeks into the showroom where a Bugatti is on display — since you can’t afford to enter the place, after all — you will see a beast that makes you salivate, if not cry. The curves are hypersleek, the chassis polished till it shines like precious metal, the colors, let’s say a intense, glittering peacock blue, not to be found on any other vehicle anywhere. You can’t imagine what goes on inside of that thing. Are the seats upholstered in some space aged fabric that is always the perfect temperature? Is the hardware of gold? Rhodium? Platinum? Palladium? What of the hubcaps? The car may be motionless in its showroom splendor, but you can imagine how those wheels spin. What kind of rare rubber are the tires made of? Are they made of rubber at all?
Bugatti found great success in the field of racing, another irony when you think of how often racing cars get banged up. Signore Bugatti couldn’t possibly have wanted any of his delicious cars to be banged up, but there you are.
By the way, the $2.4 million white convertible with “royal blue lines” is but the latest pet of the gentleman from the UAE, who owns 200 other exotic cars. Given the normal $1.5 million price tag, a bump up to $2.4 isn’t that drastic, but here’s what he gets:
A porcelain caviar tray
Porcelain wheel badges
Porcelain fuel caps
Porcelain oil caps
Porcelain doesn’t make sense in a car that goes as fast as a Bugatti? Yes, even the folks at Bugatti considered that, but they’ve never been ashamed of their extremely upscale game. Somehow, you’d think the owner of this latest confection could have any porcelain gewgaw replaced. Besides, porcelain’s not vulgar. Solid gold would be vulgar. And Bugatti’s always been about taste.
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