The Fastest and The Most Expensive Car

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

If the McLaren F1 is still a sensational car almost twenty years after it was first seen – and by all accounts it is – the Bugatti Veyron will still be so in 2025, two decades after its introduction, and beyond. Quite simply, there is nothing else that looks like – or goes like – this amazing car, the most expensive car in the world today.

Pagani, Koenigsegg and other newcomers to the game may have tried their best to provide us with simply sensation machines that push the boundaries of the game, but it was the Volkswagen Group – an unlikely starting place for some – who were left to bring us what has been described as the ‘Car of the Decade’, and more.

The original concept came from a Bentley concept – that company is also owned by the VW Group – and the decision to revive the legendary Bugatti name is one that has been something of a success. 

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Much was made of the talk of Veyron’s being deliberately designed to produce 1001bhp, but in fact this is slightly wrong; the amazing 8 liter W16 configured engine, with four turbochargers and no fewer than ten radiators thumps out 987bhp. The missing 14bhp are not a good reason not to buy one.

Of course, to buy one you will have to be unbelievably wealthy, for this car – the ultimate Super Sports version – will cost you $2,400,000, and that’s if you can find one. At auction you will undoubtedly pay a premium.

Like many modern hypercars there is some division over the Veyron’s looks, but if you have been lucky enough to see one in the flesh it is a far prettier machine than it looks in pictures or on film, and infinitely more elegant than the Zonda or Agera R. The glorious two tone bodywork – a hark back to Bugatti’s of old – works very well on the low slung, curvy and very futuristic design. The Super Sport version of the Veyron is the fastest road-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of 431 km/h (268 mph)