Brave Owner Parks His Unique £1.6m Bugatti Veyron Supercar Made of PORCELAIN in Paris Street
It must require nerves of steel to drive a £1.6million one-off porcelain supercar through Paris’ notoriously congested streets, let alone parallel park it.
The super-wealthy owner of this astonishing Veyron L’Or Blanc - or White Gold - must have breathed a sigh of relief when it arrived at the hotel unscathed.
This unique edition of the 253mph, 1,000bhp car - created in conjunction with a firm that usually makes tea pots - had never been seen on the road in Europe.
The 253mph car, which is the worlds first car to ‘wear the finest porcelain on its body’, arrived at the Plaza Athenee Hotel, and soon drew a crowd of onlookers
High-octane: With a price tag of £1.6, and with a porcelain body, it takes calm nerves to parallel park the Veyron in Paris’ narrow streetsAnd when rumours started circling it had popped up in Paris, the ‘car-parazzi’ packed their tripods before heading for France.
Fans from England, France, Holland and Germany quickly arrived at the Plaza Athenee Hotel where they found the world’s first car to ‘wear the finest porcelain on its body’.
THE SUPER STATS FOR THE BUGATTI ‘WHITE GOLD’ SUPERCAR
Cost: £1.6 million
Number built: One
Engine: 8-litre W16
Power: 1,001bhp
Accleration: 0-62mph in 2.7 seconds, 0-124mph in 7.3 secs and 0-186mph in 16.7 secs
Top speed: 253mph (with roof down: 217mph)
Braking: 62mph - 0mph in 31.4 metres (DVLA figure = 73 metres)
Carbon dioxide emissions: 596g/km (Toyota Prius: 92g/km)
Average fuel economy: 10mpg
Fuel economy in town: 6.9mph