Bugatti Veyron Wimille takes auction record, going for $5.44 million

With only three examples ever made, Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Wimille smashed its estimate value and took home a whopping $5.44 million price tag.

New Delhi: One Bugatti Veyron has made a new record at a public auction, with a 2014 Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse Jean-Pierre Wimille selling for CHF 4,505,000 at RM Sotheby’s Zurich auction on September 26. The winning bid came in less than three minutes after bidding started. 

The result brings a new auction benchmark for the Veyron family. RM Sotheby’s had estimated the car would fetch between CHF 2.4 million and CHF 2.8 million, but bidders pushed the final figure well beyond that range. The winning price was around 61 per cent higher than the upper........

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