August 13, 2009
Your chance to own a Bugatti Veyron
According to today’s Times, Jensen Button has put his Bugatti Veyron on the market – a mere snip to you and me at £900,000 with one not-so careful owner. I hope he does better than me the last time I put a car in Autotrader. I got a lot of telephone calls from people selling advertising space in other magazines – and time wasters who never showed up.
I’m undecided about the Veyron. I like it and Jeremy Clarkson speaks very highly about it on Top Gear. But I am a bit worried about the £25,000 annual service bills – and the fact that I haven’t got £900 – let alone £900,000.
According to a helpful article on buying Supercars in the Sunday Times last weekend, the Veyron is not a particularly good buy. It’s too big to use on British roads – and it depreciates almost as fast as it travels. So I can only assume Jensen Button reads the Sunday Times when he is not driving around in circles.
Their recommendation was for another million pound motor – the Enzo Ferrari. And I see Mr Button is keeping his one of those too for the time being. Button must have quite a big garage in Monte Carlo because he apparently has a Mercedes AMG and an Audi RS6 Avant too. Well I suppose his girlfriend needs a car to get to the shops – and the Audi is dead useful when you want to take your dog for a ride at 180mph
All of which brings me back to the car I tried to sell in Autotrader, I still have it sitting forlornly in the back of my garden. It used to be a bit of a liability – but now it is apparently worth £2000!
The only snag is that I will have to exchange it for a new car… something I don’t want to do as I have never bought a new car in my life. I’m not much of a one for green mania – and I cannot see the logic in swapping a car that does not go - and is therefore not polluting the environment one iota – for one that does go.
Even if you believe the baloney that marginally improved fuel efficiency is somehow important – there is the small matter of making the car that nobody currently wants to buy. Wouldn’t it be just a tad more ecologically friendly not to build all those cars in the first place?
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