That's been happening for decades. Many super cars of the past barely have 500 miles when they trade hands. Thats a number I'd say qualifiy as a car they never drive. 500-1k ..miles over 30 40 years is basicly from shuffling it around Taki g it into a shop tuni g it up cleaning it and taking it for a 5 minute cruise
Bro I work in a machine shop, aluminum is so unbelievably easy to damage and scratch. I get it looks nice and all but you literally can't even drive the car without damaging it
@@CoolSteve08 exactly... Any quality handman who finishes polished molds like lenses for example could polish this aluminum out if it was scratched bad... These people make like $28/hr... It's not some crazy rare skill or high paid trade...
SAME! Work in a CNC shop and my jaws on the floor for a number of reasons, but mainly because I’m think that just the sheer TORQUE of that SOB would damage it, depending on the milling of course. But STILL, that’s riDUNKulous!
Most all cars on the road are aluminum now. My dad's Toyota pickup is all aluminum lol. It just got a coat of paint of it tho. Same exact thing. Nothing especially here folks. If yall worked at machine ships you'd know this wasn't a billet cut aluminum car either lol. That's just ludicrous. It's stamped aluminum. It makes no sense to make it from a block of aluminum. It has body panels that need to be seperate or things like the hood won't even open. The only thing that may be extra is if the rear view mirrors etc are actually aluminum, and if the panels are usually fiberglass instead of aluminum.
@the_Holy_Spirit999 nobody would expect it to be used to commute, but people usually buy cars to drive them. People don't usually commute in Lambos, Ferrari, and McLaren, but they do drive them.
This "Pansy" is worth more than your house, Your car, You parents house and there cars, Your girlfriends car, Pretty much your salary for 25 years, Hell even you're parents if they started saving for this car in 1950, They still wouldn't have enough to buy it by 2024
Fun fact: Bugatti originally told the owner this car, that it was impossible to build (at the time). He threatened to cancel his current paid order of 10 more Vitesses, and 20 or 30 other various high spec Bugatti models. Bugatti bowed down to his wishes and hand built this full aluminum & carbon fiber showpiece. The aluminum body work alone cost 3 times more than the Grand Sport Vitesse. The owner probably paid a little under $10 million for this car back when the Veyron was first released as the world's fastest and most expensive car at $1Million msrp.
@@daprince001x5I don’t think you actually want to know that, might make you resent the world you live in that allowed one man to be able to literally throw around tens of millions of dollars like it’s pennies.
@@borthwey look it up, easy to find. One piece per panel. Seams from sheet metal were not acceptable. Bugatti said it could not be done, customer threatened to cancel current orders.... Bugatti complied.
Not at all. If I fall on this thing, or drop something, damaging it, that's on him. A car out in public should be able to cope with being out in public. This car is like the vehicular version of an autistic child.
Completely insane. It costs more than the entire base price of the car and Bugatti didn't want to do it until the owner threatened to cancel like 6 other Bugatti orders
The weight of the car is 8000lbs now. So its ugly, slow and useless because you cant drive it anywere because of the aluminium body. One stone throw and you have to replace the whole panel and mill a new one. Smaaaaaart dude who thought about this. 💩
@@domhamai You wouldn't have to pay anything. I'm living proof. That when someone upsets me I take something away. They never get it back. Because Some people Are actually free And say no. You can't put me in jail. And you can't touch my cash. You bribe the mafia for protection and they can't help you when I am the mafia. Lolol
We live in a society nowadays where a very small amount of people live like this, spending lavish amounts of money on utter nonsense, at the expense of the majority of the world’s population.
This is ‘nonsense’? It’s someone’s passion and someone’s hobby for life, let people enjoy themselves presuming they’ve worked hard all their life for it. If you work hard enjoy what you want, it’s those that don’t work hard and get to enjoy things that it frustrating. Blame the government not people enjoying themselves, because I think we both know if you were in their position you’d be doing the same thing. There’s no time in life to be jealous
@@amazin7006 Given that most wealth of that size is obtained using “shady” ways, it is obviously obtained on the expense of the majority of society. Otherwise the rich poor gap would not be on an all time high. Thus, even if I like the car, I don’t like what it represents. In my opinion of course 🙂
@@all-caps3927 That’s a rather bold presumption I would say. It’s not jealousy my friend, it’s genuine worry regarding the path our society is going down towards, as far as what is regarded as precious and worthy of admiration. In my opinion always.
The original client, located in Asia (that's all Bugatti would say.) was/possibly still is one of Bugatti's very best customers being the owner of something like, over 20 modern Bugattis. He obsessively INSISTED on these panels each being milled from a single billet of aluminum. This copy came in at something like $5.7 million dollars although Bugatti would only say that this examples options package total "exceeded the price of the original Grand Sport Vitesse." Cool stuff, huh??
I'm sure that most of you will disagree with me, but I honestly think that milling a bodywork from a solid block of aluminium is a huge and unnecessary waste of material, given the amount of energy it takes to reach high quality standards in metallic materials such as aluminium. It would have been more amazing if it were 3D printed. Sometimes people don't really know how to spend their fortunes😂
Any competent classically trained coachbuilder could have fabricated those panels from sheet ally. It’s EXTREMELY unlikely that anyone would be able to tell the difference. Seems like machinist was playing a game of “let’s see how much money I can squeeze out of this wealthy moron”. You know what they say about fools & their money… 😂😂
@@AFTER_MIDNITE Machining waste products are an incredibly poor & low yeald source of recyclable material. This is because the chips are so small they have a huge surface area to mass ratio meaning a lot the material oxidises & turns to unusable slag waste product when melted down.
@IceColdH2O It's not popped open. Its got awfully fitting hood panel gaps. They are all like this. Personally I think they are fugly and worst sounding supercars ever.
To be fair; it might get deformed being a moving part over time and it wasn’t like that new. Given that the rest of the panels and fittings are perfect; my guess is that either someone shut the hood like an animal.. either they needed to put a different mechanism for this aluminium part as it’s not as flexible as the original carbon one.. and it doesn’t regain its shape that well
Why would you ‘not want to damage a car because of how expensive it would be’…. We have this magical thing called insurance - it would cost your excess and a higher premium next year. Yawn
@@BIG2hats no it doesn’t my friend. The car is insured for its value including modifications - car insurance is car insurance. Just like insurance paid for rowan Atkinsons McLaren f1 (google It)….. yawn
I worked in the aluminum industry for 30 years. This is not “milled” from a single block. It’s hot rolled from a huge ingot, and then cold rolled, and heat treated. All auto body is made that way.
I don't think people realise how special that is. The bonnet or rear 1/4s etc require a machine worth double digit millions to make. Then each piece requires a individual massive die/tooling jig to hold it while the machine makes it. It's incredible lol.
You couldn’t pay me to drive it on an open air strip. I’ve drove 2024 rentals and it’s like, man if I f this up yeah insurance helps but your still crashing a brand new whip. I already totaled a 2020 trailblazer I’m damn sure not touching a Bugatti
