World Auto News & Reviews

It seems like every month there is a rumor about another special-edition Bugatti Veyron, If they ever turn out to be true, they usually end up being a special-edition Veyron with some exclusive paint job or the use of carbon fiber and other lightweight materials.

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A Bugatti Veyron, one of the world’s most desirable supercars, will feature in a massive ‘Fast and Furious’ sale of 350 sports cars, coupes, performance vehicles, motorcycles and convertibles at BCA Blackbushe near Camberley in Surrey on Saturday 5th June.

The cars have been entered for sale by Lex Autolease and Black Horse and represent one of the most valuable sales of contemporary vehicles ever staged in the UK. Lex Autolease and Black Horse have worked closely in partnership with BCA to bring together a truly exceptional selection of vehicles for this event.
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A couple of days ago we were surprised by someone cashing out $3.5 million for a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica. Well, that now seems like child’s play because the estate of Dr. Peter D. Williamson sold the late car collector’s 1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic to the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Ca., for between $30 million and $40 million.

The vehicle is known to be the world’s most expensive car… ever.

“I am extremely pleased to have found the new buyer for the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, one of the world’s most significant and valuable automobiles that has been in a private collection and rarely seen during the past four decades,” says David Gooding, president and founder of Gooding & Company. “It has been a great pleasure to work with the Williamson Family and Trust in this important endeavor.”

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Terry Cook (owner of Deco Rides in New Jersey, a company that creates Generation II Boattail Speedster bodies) wanted something special, something along the lines of a Bugatti and Delahaye. The catch, other than price, was that he wasn’t willing to cut up an original.

“Starting with one of his composite bodies,…he radically modified the design incorporating styling ideas from a number of different cars, [while] the body itself was designed eight years ago for Cook by top hot rod builder/designer Chip Foose.”

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The Bugatti 16C Galibier concept is poised to be given the approval for production by this summer and if all goes well, the four-door Bugatti should go into production around 2013 after production of the Veyron ends in 2012.

Originally, a decision to build the 16C Galibier had been expected this spring, but with Bugatti being the smallest of the Volkswagen Group’s brand it has had to wait its turn for funds.

“It will be made one way or the other,” said one insider. “We’re the smallest VW Group member and there’s a recession on so we’ve not been a priority. But we can expect to announce something by the summer; it looks good, people like it and it wouldn’t be a great financial commitment in the context of the Group.”

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