THE Bugatti Veyron is the most expensive street legal car on the market today – and it will take someone with a shedload of lolly to snap up the model about to come up for grabs early next month.
It features in a huge ‘Fast and Furious’ sale of 350 sports cars, coupes, performance vehicles, motorcycles and convertibles at BCA Blackbushe near Camberley, Surrey, on Saturday, June 5.
The cars have been entered for sale by Lex Autolease and Black Horse and represent one of the most valuable sales of contemporary vehicles ever staged in the UK.
Undoubted star is the 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4, as just 300 Veyrons - named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won Le Mans in 1939 - were produced.
The Veyron is powered by an 8.0-litre petrol engine that can reach 253.5 mph and is the quickest accelerating and decelerating road car in the world.
It has a computer-controlled automatic dual-clutch direct-shift gearbox with seven gears and magnesium paddles behind the steering wheel with a shift time of less than 150 milliseconds.
The sale car is finished in dark blue metallic over silver metallic and has covered just 7,341 kms from when it was registered in July 2006.
British Car Auctions is marketing the Veyron worldwide via its Live Online internet bidding system and is expecting potential buyers from Europe, the USA, Japan and the Middle-East to be interested as well as UK-based bidders.
The sale also features a 2005 Ferrari F430 F1 Coupe, a 2007-registered Aston Martin DB9 V12 Coupe and a 2004 Maserati 4200 Cambiocorsa Coupe, as well as six Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Meanwhile, the last known genuine MG works rally car is being offered for auction, 35 years after its competitive farewell.
It is expected to fetch offers in the region of £90,000 - £130,000, over 100 times greater than the price of the road-going MGB in 1964, at the Historics at Brooklands auction on June 2.
One of two MGB rally cars built in 1964 - at a time when the road car was priced at £850 - the ‘Comp Shop’ car offered by Historics made its racing debut in the Spa-Sofia-Liege rally in August 1964.
It went on to compete a further five times as a works entry, at the Tulip Rally, The Acropolis Rally, Geneva Rally, the Castrol Danube Rally and the RAC Rally, all in 1965.