"Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom" (will-alib)
01/22/2014 at 12:54 • Filed to: None | 0 | 5 |
I couldn't post the link so I copied the text.
"Certified pre-owned cars, with the benefits of a factory-backed warranty
and low mileage, come with premium prices. But this 2008 Bugatti Veyron
turns that phrase on its head. This particular Veyron, with
1,300 miles on the clock, belonged to British TV personality and
"American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, who drove the fastest production car
on earth around crowded Los Angeles —
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.
Bugatti
is billing this black-on-black Veyron as its first CPO car, replete
with a one-year factory warranty and a new $42,000 set of fresh Michelin
tires. For $1.375 million, that's all the time and rubber a used
Bugatti buyer can get.
Cowell sold the car at the
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last weekend, and likely didn't lose too much on his purchase. Veyrons cost anywhere from $1.5 to
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,
depending on the year, trim, exchange rates and if it's built as a
special edition. Cowell had a "normal" Veyron, if that's what
celebrities such as Drake, Lil Wayne and countless others can call a
1,001-horsepower, 253-mph rocket with license plates.
Bugatti is
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and has no immediate plans to offer a successor. That's why the
company, owned by Volkswagen, is starting the CPO program to keep the
car's quad-turbo, 16-cylinder fire alive. We don't think it'll have any
problems, since every car that's tried to beat it — on
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, anyway — has failed."
John Bulzacchelli
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
01/22/2014 at 12:59 | 0 |
HammerheadFistpunch
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
01/22/2014 at 13:05 | 0 |
two 750 miles trips?
Chris Clarke
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
01/22/2014 at 13:21 | 0 |
Why drive a VW when you can drive one of these....
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Chris Clarke
01/22/2014 at 14:20 | 1 |
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> HammerheadFistpunch
01/22/2014 at 14:20 | 0 |
Sounded odd to me too. Maybe it had miles on it when he got it?