Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today we chat to talk about the running costs one of the most incredible cars of the past 2 decades, the Bugatti Veyron.
When it comes to running costs of a supercar we talk about figures that are out of reach for most people
when it comes to hypercars, it's an even smaller and exclusive circle with prices that are out of mind
not just about the purchase but mainly about the running costs!
The Veyron was launched in 2005 and back in time, its figures were science fiction!
1 million € price tag, 407kph of top speed and 1001hp.
Figures that may not shock us these days, trust me that 2 decades are these figures were and are still impressive!
It's weird to think that for example a second hand Ferrari F12 TDF is more expensive than a brand new Veyron!
Back in time, 1 million was a lot of money and today they're like peanuts if we look at the supercars and hypercars market.
As mentioned in the previous video, if I had the cash I'd love to have a Veyron in the garage because it's a masterpiece of engineering,
it's a car that has defined the laws of gravity and back in 2005 the Veyron achieved what lots of manufacturers didn't
creating a hypercar with insane figures with reliability and the possibility to daily drive it
Back in time, its weak point wasn't the price tag but the running costs to use it
because a car with these insane performance is not a car you can neglect and service it whenever you want,
if Bugatti say you have to service the car, you have to do it and the running costs of the Veyron are simply insane!
Out of the several running costs, let's start from the classic one, the oil change which is something eveyrone do on their own car
Bugatti recommends an oil change every year, the big 8.0L W16 quad-turbo hold 16 litres of oil, how much it cost though?
About $25.000! The Veyron isn't running on liquid gold as engine oil,
it's mechanically complicated, a few people know to handle it. Disassembling all the parts in order to fit the oil ain't quick and simple,
every work requires lots of hours of labor and as you may understand, it ain't cheap at Bugatti!
In order to use the full potential and drive the Veyron safely, one of the most important components are the tires.
Bugatti recommends to change the tires are 2/3 years. The price of a full set? $38.000!
You can't surf on the internet and order the tires, this car is running on Michelin Pilot Sport PAX specifically made for this car,
in fact Bugatti has developed with Michelin a specific tire for this model in order to provide these performance and the tire size is insane!
Tire cost is not over because every set lasts about 4000km and at the 4th tire Bugatti forces you to change also the wheels
because due to the roughness of the road and potholes, Bugatti claims the wheels may not guarantee safeness and performance at high speed so the cost is pretty high
about $50.000!
I've exposed these running costs in $ because by looking around I saw american Veyron collectors who wanted to share their figures.
Even when parked, the Veyron is very expensive to run. If you have one I guess you want to enjoy it sometimes
Talking about insurance, I have no idea about the cost as I didn't find any figure,
I wonder if there's insurance companies willed to insure it, probably if you phone call your company for a quote they shut the phone!
I found the witness of a british Veyron owner, he didn't say the figure but he said that every year the spend the equivalent of a brand new luxury car to insure the Veyron
let's say between 50 to 60k €? I think it's quite realistic, especially if we talk about a full insurance.
Also because if you damage it, it takes a second to get ready to pay a huge bill, later on we'll talk about it!
Probably for these reasons most of the second hand Veyrons have a low mileage,
mechanically speaking it's a masterpiece, it's very reliable but the problems are the insane running costs so also
those who can afford it, don't enjoy it that much
not everyone are like that because this is one of the highest mileage Veyrons of the market.
currently this car has over 60.000km and it has just 1 owner from new!
This car belong to a french collector and it's particular because it's a pre-series Veyron used by Bugatti and tested up to 414.7kph!
As you know, for safety reasons and to save the tires, Bugatti limited it to 407kph.
Still, tires life is relatively short because at top speed, the tires last just 15 minutes
you can't even keep the top speed for 15 minutes because at 407kph you run out of 100 litres of the fuel tank in just 12 minutes!
Which means the fuel consumption is 800m per litre and this is probably the cheapest running cost which is quite something!
It's impressive to know that guy covered over 60.000km, after all if you can afford it, enjoy it!
Just wondering how much he spent to use it!
Also because as mentioned, ordinary expenses aside, you have to take into consideration the extraordinary expenses like issues and malfuctions
I manged to find the price of the spare parts and labor and also the invoice of a crashed Veyron, let's have a look!
This russian invoice is about a crashed Veyron,
As you can see, here's the damages to the bumper and wheel, sadly it's low quality but it's the best I could find.
I save you also the translation and tell you the works done on the car.
Bumper replaced, repaint, bumper grilles, wheel arch cover, new tire and wheel and lots of other things like bolts etc.
The bill for this joke? 3.8m rubles, the equivalent of 45k €!
Phone call to the insurance must have been fun!
Whenever think you touch or whatever unexpected thing happens, it's pricey!
What's impressive is that sometimes the labor rate is more expensive than the mechanical parts to change!
As you can see in this document, here we find the price of some mechanical parts and the labor rate
I'm reading the document, for example a couple of turbos for the Bank1 cost 5640€ + 8000€ of labor
so if you double the figure by replacing all 4 turbos you pay 27.280€!
If you work on the camshaft, there's lots of little expenses about the intake and exhaust
figures are low but the labor is shocking, in order to work on the camshaft get ready to pay 19.200€ in labor alone!
If you want to save just go on Ebay and build your own Veyron every week!
I couldn't believe at my eyes but on Ebay there's a huge market of new and second hand spare parts of the Veyron, look what I found!
Tired of your interior? Here's adverted a full interior taken off a Veyron with a price of about 79k €!
You don't want to pay a lot of for a new set of tires and wheels? Here's a set for 31k €!
New carbon fibre bumper? Here's one priced at 12k €!
Need a new exhaust? Here's one for 10k €.
Need a new bumper? Here's one for 7k€.
Here's a couple of brand new headlights priced 6k€
but hey, not everything is expensive on the Veyron because I found the windshield wiper for just 12€!
Look at the bright side, if you start by the wiper you just made a small step with a little expense!
Jokes aside, owning a Veyron ain't for everyone, even for most millionaires
a few people dare to spend over million and pay even more than 100k € per year just to say " Hey, I have a Veyron in the garage! "
Is there Veyrons in Italy though? Yeah, over the time there have been some, even registered in Italy!
The first Veyron I saw live was in Milan in the old Lamborghini Milan dealership that sadly doesn't exist anymore, it's no the current dealership in the city centre.
The car you see was never registered, it had just 300km and belonged to the Gheddafi family,
once war in Libia started, the car disappeared on a truck with an unknown destination and since then, we didn't see any more pics of it.
Another Veyron everyone talk about but there's no pics, it's about the Veyron of Ghedini, Berlusconi's lawyer.
For years I heard rumors of him having one, friends from his area confirmed it but over the years I never saw a pic
still, there's pics of Veyrons with italian plate because here you see a Veyron SS, one of the rarest Veyrons ever is here in Italy.
The car is around Bologna and the day I saw a pic of it with the italian plate my face was like
Sometimes it pops out and it's cool to see cars like this in Italy.
Another italian Veyron that is used regularly is this one that is around Arezzo
meanwhile another famous one, this time a Vitesse registered in Italy is this one. Maybe by the plate 007 you can tell the owner and nope,
it's not James Bond but Cristiano Ronaldo!
Since when he moved to Turin to play with Juventus, he brought most of his collection including also the Chiron and Senna, who knows how many other!
Basically, Ronaldo help the terrible economy of our country with the car taxes!
On italian plate, another big expense is the car tax because 1200hp cost 3600€ of regular car tax plus 14.000€ of Superbollo car tax to pay every year!
For 1001hp you pay 3000€ of car tax plus 6600 of Superbollo car tax, it's reduced as most Veyrons have more than 5/10 years.
That's all!
Now you know why you don't see many Veyrons around and also why most have low mileage.
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