Super luxury
The benchmark for luxury cars in the country just got higher with Volkswagen Group company Bugatti Automobiles launching its super premium sports car Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, with price starting at Rs 16 crore, the most expensive car to hit the Indian roads.
(Pic: Models pose as Exclusive Motors Managing Director Satya Bagla, right, with Buggatti Sales and marketing manager, Europe, Middle East and India Guy Caquelin sit in a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand sport car during its India launch, in New Delhi.)
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, priced at Rs 16 crore onwards, will be distributed by the company's Indian dealer Exclusive Motors. So far, the most expensive cars in India have been the Rolls Royce Phantom and the Maybach, which are priced around Rs 5 crore.
Bugatti is aiming between 60 and 80 units of the car to be sold across the globe this year and there have been queries from 3 to 4 Indians globally. The company claims that the Bugatti Veyron is also the fastest car on production that is allowed to drive on normal roads in the world with a top speed of 407 km/hour with an acceleration of 0-100km/hour in 2.7 seconds.
The car, which uses components made of special materials like titanium, carbon fibre and magnesium is powered by an 8 litre engine with 16 cylinders and is assembled by hand at the company's hand headquarters Molsheim in France.