The Cost Of Owning A VEYRON !

If you think a Supermodel is expensive, owning a Bugatti Veyron is like dating entire issue of Vogue !

Most of us probably won’t be too disposed to sympathising with Bugatti Veyron owners over the maintenance costs they’ll face when running one of these magnificent machines – you practically have to be a billionaire to afford one – but you can understand why anyone might wince at some of the bills that Volkswagen’s finest can run up.

A normal routine service, for instance, costs £12,866 (RM 70,445) or the price of a Toyota Vios, whereas an annual service for a Ferrari Enzo is £1680 (RM 9,200), which seems like a bargain by contrast.

Buying new tyres for the Veyron will produce similarly heart-freezing bills, a set of four tyres costing £23,500 (RM 128,688), in part because they have to be capable of 410 km/h, more than 162 km/h faster than Concorde’s landing speed.

Worse news still is that at every fourth tyre change the Veyron’s rims must be stress tested for cracks – a sensible precaution in a car this fast – and replaced if they are found wanting at a cost of £7050 (RM 38,600) per corner.

For all these reasons, it’s not surprising to learn that one owner has taken to having his Veyron trailered to his favourite roads and following it there by executive jet, an arrangement that works out cheaper than driving the Bugatti several hundred km's to reach the dream Tarmac.

All of which is guaranteed to keep the Veyron out of reach of 99.9 per cent-plus of all car buyers, even if it should depreciate colossally. And, despite these maintenance costs, even that looks unlikely.

Via : Autocar