Few people can afford to own a Bugatti, a French high-performance luxury ride that has been a subsidiary of Volkswagen since 1998. The car manufacturer has always been focused on the upper crust. The Bugatti Veyron, which first became available in 2005, sold for a whopping $2.5 million USD. So it should come as no surprise to hear Bugatti's CEO, Wolfgang Dürheimer, describe the affluence of the company's customer base. In a 2014 interview with Bloomberg News, Dürheimer said that “the average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, 3 jets, and 1 yacht.”
Bugatti, in the footsteps of the Beetle:
It took Bugatti more than eight years to sell out its first production model, the Veyron 16.4, according to autoblog.com.
These days, Volkswagen manufactures much more than Beetles. In addition to Bugatti, the company now also owns Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bentley.
Bugatti is expected to unveil a new model in the next year. It's expected to be significantly more powerful than the Veyron, which produced a whopping 987 horsepower in the base model.
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