The price of not just buying, but keeping a super- or hypercar running, is astronomical. What would otherwise be your standard, run of the mill car parts on a regular vehicle can cost as much as vehicle themselves on a supercar. From McLaren F1 windshields that cost as much as a midsize family sedan to … Read more
Photo: Daniel Golson/Jalopnik I live about ten minutes away from Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, so I’m always driving around or walking through to see what cars are out and about. There’s always rare, cool and weird stuff running around, and even on a slow day I’m likely to see at least a few new … Read more
Twenty years after the game-changing Bugatti Veyron entered production and eight years after the Chiron was unveiled, it’s time for a new Bugatti, and the French brand’s latest hypercar is unlike anything that’s come before it. Enter the Bugatti Tourbillon. Powered by a new V16 plug-in-hybrid powertrain, built on a new structure and featuring a … Read more
Image: Aspark It seems like just yesterday that Aspark was pushing the boundaries of physics by getting its Owl electric hypercar to sprint from 0-60 in under two seconds. In reality that was six years ago, and now every EV automaker can make a sub-two 0-60 run, so Aspark had to set its sights a … Read more
It’s common for modern Bugattis to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in options, with some bespoke commissions through the Sur Mesure division costing seven figures on top of the already mega-expensive car. There is one Veyron that stands above the rest in this regard, and it was never before seen until a few days … Read more
Bugatti unveiled the one-off Golden Era last year, a unique Chiron Super Sport built to celebrate the marque’s two golden eras: 1909 to 1956, and 1987 to 2023. Bugatti has an extensive history of bespoke creations, both with pre-war coachbuilt cars and with the Veyron and subsequent modern models, but the Golden Era is something … Read more
Just over eight years after the Bugatti Chiron was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show, the 500th and final has rolled off the assembly line. As with its Veyron predecessor, the last Chiron to be built is an incredibly special one-off spec. Based on the Chiron Super Sport model, it’s fittingly called L’Ultime, and it … Read more
Bugatti is well known for its overall win at the 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans, where Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist piloted the Type 57G “Tank” to victory, but the brand’s first factory running at Le Mans happened six years earlier in 1931 and was, in typical French fashion, a bit of a protest. … Read more
