Veyron Coupe Sold Out, Grand Sport ‘Vert Still Available as Bugatti Preps Its Next Move

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The 253-mph Bugatti Veyron 16.4 coupe, the impossibly wide, impossibly powerful, and impossibly quick supercar that embodied more superlatives than any single car in most of our lifetimes, is now history. To be precise, the last available production spot for the fixed-roof Veyron has been assigned to a European customer. Once that example emerges from Bugatti's Molsheim, France, production "studio,” 300 of the million-dollar-plus coupes—including a handful of the truly insane, 258-mph Super Sport variants—will have been built.

Unlike the six palatial Type 41 Royales built by Bugatti between 1926 and 1933, not every Veyron may be destined for immortality, since some owners haven’t always been judicious in the manner in which they take the 8.0-liter W-16 engine up on its 1001-hp offer. So if you are one of the lucky chaps who currently has one in his possession and you can manage not to rear-end an Astra on the autobahn or drive it into a Texas swamp, the finite number of Veyron 16.4s in the world, the car’s significance, and those other jokers ruining their cars mean that your four-wheeled technological tour de force should appreciate in value. (Just for kicks, we poked around and saw at least a half-dozen used examples on the market in the U.S. alone, with none trading for less than a $1 million. So value isn’t exactly a problem even now.)

Here's the good news for those of you with mounds of cash to burn: Bugatti says it will build a maximum of 150 $2M Grand Sport convertibles, and only 31 have been delivered at the time of this writing. There are another handful currently in the commissioning or assembly process.

What's next for Bugatti? Officially, that's still a mystery; the company has stated only that its next product—it builds just one product at a time—will not be a sports car. It seems to be leaning toward producing something like the controversial 16 C Galibier sedan, which Bugatti floated to customers and media in 2009. According to a spokesperson, a formal announcement of the next product is still two years away, so other than a special-edition Grand Sport or two, don't expect to see much Bug news until then.

Steve Siler 28 Jun, 2011

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Source: http://blog.caranddriver.com/veyron-coupe-sold-out-grand-sport-vert-still-available-as-bugatti-preps-its-next-move/
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