2007 Bugatti Veyron Sells For World Record $2 Million At Goodwood Auction

It’s official. This Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most valuable example of the breed ever sold at auction, special editions not withstanding. The 2007 example went under the hammer with Bonhams at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and promptly blew its estimate out of the water with a world-record winning bid of £1,527,000. That’s just over $2.04 million USD.

Incidentally, not only is that figure double its £800,000 / $1.07 million estimate, it’s also $620,000 over the Veyron’s original asking price when it launched in 2005, and a quarter of a million dollars more than a one-of-three Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Meo Costantini sold for back in 2020. That’s not bad for a standard Veyron, if such a thing exists. But it’s still well short of the 2010 Veyron Grand Sport ‘Sang Bleu’ one-of-one that fetched $3 million last year in Miami.

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A World Record Holder, But Not The Most Expensive Supercar At Goodwood

Ordered in December 2006, and built to 2008 specifications, this particular Veyron – chassis 079 – is one of only 253 coupes built and has had only one owner from new. Unsurprisingly, it has been safely packed away with the wedding china, having racked up just under 480 miles through the years. Finished in two-tone metallic Mocha Brown and White Coffee on the outside, the interior is a mix of Magnola and Havana leather. The colors are fittingly neutral, given that the car has spent most of its life in Switzerland.

Staggeringly, this Veyron wasn’t even the highest-priced model sold at Bonhams’ Goodwood auction. One of only 275 Mercedes-AMG One hypercars sold for £2,456,600 ($3.3 million). A 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster, originally bought in 1995 and following a full 23-year restoration, sold for £866,200 ($1.16 million). And this Veilside Mazda RX-7 FD, as seen in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, sold for £911,000 ($1.22 million). Combined, the Goodwood-based auction saw upwards of $13.7 million in sales pass beneath the auctioneer’s block during the weekend.

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While the notion of a 1,000-horsepower car is a bit more acceptable by today’s standards, back in 1998, many scoffed at Volkswagen Group CEO Ferdinand Piëch’s plan to produce such a machine. The sky-high horsepower rating was only part of the numbers game, as it came with a $1 million price tag and a claimed top speed beyond 250 mph. Mind you, this was at a time when 400 hp was a big deal and $40,000 could get you a new Mercedes C-Class.

Nevertheless, Piëch’s vision came to life in October 1998 when Bugatti presented the EB118 concept at that year’s Paris Auto Show. After two years of conceptual fettling, the Veyron EB 16.4 finally reached production form.

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The name was derived from Ettore Bugatti himself as well as 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans winner (and sometime Bugatti factory driver) Pierre Veyron, and was also a nod to the hypercar’s whopping 16-cylinder, quad-turbocharged engine.

Source: Bonhams Auctions