This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like

It’s come to my attention that most Americans don’t live within easy walking distance of a Bugatti dealership. I was surprised to hear this, as I was just about certain that the Hyundai/Kia dealership near me also sold Bugattis, but it turns out I had them confused with Mitsubishi. The guy on the phone said this happened all the time, but usually he could put potential Chiron buyers into a new Outlander, so he really didn’t mind. Anyway, it seems like most people have not seen the window sticker on a new Chiron, a problem I’m about to solve for you.

It seems our own Editor-In-Chief Rory Something will be driving one of these soon in Connecticut, one of America’s Strategic Wealth Preserves, and before they let him into one they sent him all kinds of information on where he needs to go to get deloused and that sort of thing. They also included the Monroney sticker for the 2021 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Hatchback DX:

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like
Screenshot: Bugatti

Oh, I guess they don’t use the “Hatchback DX” in there after all. Huh.

This window sticker is a remarkable thing to see; I think it’s likely one of the highest-dollar window stickers you can find, totaling a brain-injuring $US3,959,000 ($5,093,649).

That’s, uh, that’s a lot of fucking money.

Let’s see how that breaks down: the car starts at $US3,599,000 ($4,630,473) for the base model Chiron Pur Sport, which I have to assume has steelie wheels and unpainted black bumpers and mirrors, and then there are “options” that cost as much as a nice home in most parts of the country, $US360,000 ($463,176).

Let’s see how that $US360,000 ($463,176) breaks down here:

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like
Screenshot: Bugatti

So there’s an $US80,000 ($102,928) paint option, an interior package for $US60,000 ($77,196) that seems to be mostly exposed carbon fibre and Alcantara, though I don’t see any floor mats.

As an aside, I decided to see what the options were for Bugatti Chiron floor mats, and while Bugatti’s site was no help, I was thrilled to see this on an aftermarket floor mat maker’s site:

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like
Screenshot: Bugatti

You really have to appreciate the boundless optimism of whoever coded that floor mat company’s database of car makes and models to include an entry for a 2021 Bugatti Chiron. I wonder how many times that’s been searched.

The $US220,000 ($283,052) “Pur Sport split” option, also roughly the cost of a home in which one could live and raise a family, is what it costs to make the car sort of two-tone, with exposed dark carbon fibre on the lower third of the car.

Curb feelers are not included.

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like
Screenshot: Bugatti

The Standard Equipment box is interesting, in that it includes the power and torque numbers for the engine (1479.5 HP, 535 kg-feet of torque) and the top speed, listed here as 420 km/h. I don’t top speed is usually included on a window sticker say, a Nissan Versa Note.

You get a seven-speed DSG gearbox, you know, like the one you can get on a SEAT Leon. There’s all the usual stuff most premium cars come with today: nav, automatic climate control, Bluetooth, and so on, and you do get SiriusXM satellite radio, but only a four year subscription.

Four years? For a four million dollar car? Come on, Bugatti, stop being such cheapskates. Spring for some lifetime subscription deal. This is why you’re losing buyers to Mitsubishi.

Also interesting is the required EPA fuel economy section.

This Is What A $4 Million Bugatti Chiron Window Sticker Looks Like
Screenshot: Bugatti

This thing isn’t great on gas, so if you’ve been cross-shopping Chirons and Priuses, I think you likely know what your call will be. Eight miles per gallon in the city, 13 on highway, for a combined rating of 10 — yeesh, what is this, 1974? Is there a carburetor in there?

Still, these numbers might not really be all that fair or representative of Chiron ownership. It’s estimating that you’d pay $US17,000 ($21,872) more in fuel costs than the average car, but that’s assuming 15,000 driven miles per year, with fuel costs of $US3.25 ($4)/gallon.

Now, here’s the problem. As our own Raph Orlove pointed out to me, no Chiron owner is driving these things 24,140 km per year. I’m not sure any modern Bugatti has been driven 24,140 km in one year.

Chiron lease agreements appear to account for 4,023 km per year, which seems a much more probable number, at least for new Bugattis. Maybe someone out there has a salvage-title 2016 Chiron with a bad transmission and no door glass they found on Craigslist they’re road-tripping in, but I think that’s unlikely.

So, if we use much more Chiron-probable numbers of 4,023 km per year and SoCal premium gas prices of $US4.20 ($5)/gal, and at 10 mpg that’s 946 l, that’s $US1,050 ($1,351) for gas, per year. For five years that comes to $US5,250 ($6,755), which is $US2,250 ($2,895) less than the average five-year fuel cost of $US7,500 ($9,650).

So, really, the Chiron is a penny-pincher’s dream!

See, that’s why it pays to really look over these things for yourself; I had a very different view of the Chiron before we dug into the window sticker. Now I think those people that choose the Outback over it are fools!

Fools!


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