06/02/2023
Bugatti sold its last purely gas-powered supercar at a Paris auction Wednesday for more than $10 million, setting a world auction record for a new car.
Originally a special development model that was never intended to be sold, the one-of-a-kind Bugatti Chiron Profilée sold at RM Paris collector car auction for a bid of $9.5 million. With fees paid to the auction house, the final selling price was about $10.7 million (Around Rs. 2.7 Billion).
The price was far above the $4.5 million to $6 million RM Sotheby's had estimated the car to be worth. The eight-figure price eclipses previous auction sales of new cars, according to Hagerty, a company that tracks the collector car market. (But, privately, a trio of new bespoke, highly customized, Rolls Royces sold in 2021 at about $25 million apiece.)
