pinched this link from another forum, hammer falls at £625,000!!
The new owner commented this on forum:
Hi all, I was the lucky man who bought the car. Not a dealer, but do own part of a garage in surrey- Will play with it for a bit and review it after a trip to classic lemans! The interesting thing was that BCA kippered themselves by asking me if i wanted to jump up by 2.5k at the end. They told me afterwards that the internet bidding took a while to catch up in which time they had put the hammer down- The internet bidding went on beyond 625K! Guess its better lucky, than clever. As to valuations, i have no idea! There are rumours of a cheap one being sold when the world fell appart a year or so ago. I also figured the year of the car really wont matter in years to come.For example, you really don't care if a mclaren F1 is a 1994 0r 1998- Its still an F1- Anyway, thats my mad logic. Must rush now as need to sell something to pay the bill!!
later post:
Hi, running costs are horrendous and part of the reason these are dropping versas an Enzo. The tyres are £5500 a pop and last 10,000 km- then every 30,000 you need a new set of wheels for £25,000- I am not your regular Veyron owner - more the budget variety! - I think the wheel problem is easily solved on a day to day bases with a set of race wheels/less highly rated tyres. The veyron wheels/tyres are only so expensive as they are supposedly rated to 250mph- will just have to keep under 200mph on ordinary roads! The annual oil service is a whopping £13k- its 35hours and the rest is parts- I have a plan here as i own a garage and know a man with the necessary lap top gear! The problem will be lack of official stamps when i sell if i go down this route. They are supposed to be relatively hassle free and there are a couple in germany that have done over 60,000km. However, if the gearbox goes bang you will see me in tears at the side of the road!
The new owner commented this on forum:
Hi all, I was the lucky man who bought the car. Not a dealer, but do own part of a garage in surrey- Will play with it for a bit and review it after a trip to classic lemans! The interesting thing was that BCA kippered themselves by asking me if i wanted to jump up by 2.5k at the end. They told me afterwards that the internet bidding took a while to catch up in which time they had put the hammer down- The internet bidding went on beyond 625K! Guess its better lucky, than clever. As to valuations, i have no idea! There are rumours of a cheap one being sold when the world fell appart a year or so ago. I also figured the year of the car really wont matter in years to come.For example, you really don't care if a mclaren F1 is a 1994 0r 1998- Its still an F1- Anyway, thats my mad logic. Must rush now as need to sell something to pay the bill!!
later post:
Hi, running costs are horrendous and part of the reason these are dropping versas an Enzo. The tyres are £5500 a pop and last 10,000 km- then every 30,000 you need a new set of wheels for £25,000- I am not your regular Veyron owner - more the budget variety! - I think the wheel problem is easily solved on a day to day bases with a set of race wheels/less highly rated tyres. The veyron wheels/tyres are only so expensive as they are supposedly rated to 250mph- will just have to keep under 200mph on ordinary roads! The annual oil service is a whopping £13k- its 35hours and the rest is parts- I have a plan here as i own a garage and know a man with the necessary lap top gear! The problem will be lack of official stamps when i sell if i go down this route. They are supposed to be relatively hassle free and there are a couple in germany that have done over 60,000km. However, if the gearbox goes bang you will see me in tears at the side of the road!
no such thing
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