Bugatti for sale -- Craigslist’s most expensive car listing?
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This could be one of those “I wish I’d bought it while I had the chance” moments. Or maybe not. A 2006 Bugatti Veyron, with only 874 miles on the odometer, is up for sale. On Craigslist.
It’s on the Los Angeles CL site, but the car is located upstate in Benicia, just north of San Francisco -- which isn’t that far away in a car that can zip to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds, hit 200 mph in 24 seconds and max out at 252.3 mph. It has one turbocharger for every four of its 16 cylinders, and its 8.0-liter displacement kicks out 1,000 horsepower, making it one of the most powerful production cars in the world. And the asking price? $1.3 million, probably the highest amount for a car ever put up on the whole of CL, although a Craigslist spokesperson was not available for comment.
Considering that a new Veyron goes for around $1.4 million, depreciation hasn’t hit too hard even in these troubled times. And each car is said to cost about $2 million to produce, so VW -- Bugatti’s parent company -- takes a huge loss just to make the most super of supercars.
If anyone from SoCal does end up buying it (the initials JL spring to mind), there’s always the Laguna Seca track on the way home, to give the car a really good shakedown. And isn’t there something gloriously cheapskate about advertising a $1.3-million car on a free classified ad site?
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