It is not news that Bugatti makes very expensive automobiles. A Bugatti Chiron, the brand’s basic model, costs about $3 million. Bugatti’s latest creation, though, sets a new bar in price and exclusivity.

* The most expensive new car ever made just sold for a whopping $19 million.
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* The Bugatti ‘La Voiture Noire’ – French for ‘The Black Car’ – was unveiled last week at the Geneva auto show, where it was sold for a record 16.7 million Euros, or $19 million dollars.
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* The vehicle sports a 1,500 horsepower 16-cylinder engine and is based on Bugatti’s Type 57 SC model from the 1930’s, which are worth as much as $50 million today.  The identity of the buyer is being kept a secret.

According to Bugatti, La Voiture Noire is the most expensive new car ever sold and only one will be made. Bugatti did not reveal the identity of the buyer. It is someone with an enormous attachment to the Bugatti brand, the automaker said. It’s also clearly someone with immense financial resources.

Bugatti’s new La Voiture Noire is designed to recall the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic of the 1930s. Only four of those cars were made and, today, they’re among the most valuable cars in the world. They can be worth more than $50 million, according to Hagerty Insurance, a company that tracks collector car values. One of those cars became known as “La Voiture Noire” which means simply, the black car. Only three are known to survive. The fourth seems to have disappeared shortly before the German invasion of France during World War II. Its whereabouts remain unknown.

The Type 57 SC Atlantic was designed by Jean Bugatti, son of Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti, at a time when the bodies for most high-end cars were created by separate body makers rather than by the automobile companies themselves. Jean Bugatti designed some of the most beautiful cars ever seen for his father’s firm.

* What’s your dream car?  Would it be a brand new model or a vintage classic?

By Qrockonline, CNN