A 2014 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse brought CHF 4,505,000 in Zurich on September 26, 2026. RM Sotheby’s ran the sale, and the car wears a pale shade called Bleu Wimille. According to the auction house, that price is a world record for a Veyron at auction.

Bugatti built just three of these cars to honor Jean-Pierre Wimille. He was the French racing driver who brought Bugatti its first win at Le Mans. This one also arrived in Zurich with a low odometer reading and a paper trail that runs through three countries.

The price landed far above what the auction house expected. That gap made it the headline lot of the evening, and so did one more detail. It even outsold a Ferrari F40 in the same room.

The Legends car that honored Wimille

Bugatti built a series of tribute Grand Sport Vitesse roadsters under the banner Les Légendes de Bugatti. According to RM Sotheby’s lot description, the Wimille edition was the first installment of that series. Bugatti made only three of them.

Wimille earned the tribute on the track. For example, the lot listing credits him with two overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. RM Sotheby’s results release also identifies him as the first driver to win the race for Bugatti.

The car wears that history in its details. First, the listing describes light-blue Bleu Wimille paint set against dark blue exposed carbon fiber. An outline of the Circuit de la Sarthe also sits on the rear wing. Then there is Wimille’s signature, laser-etched on the caps. Finally, a storage compartment lid carries the Le Mans layout, milled into its surface.

What sat under the skin

Mechanically, however, this is a Grand Sport Vitesse like the rest. RM Sotheby’s lists its engine as an 8.0-liter W16 fed by four turbochargers. The auction house rates it at 1,200 horsepower. It also quotes 0 to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds and a top speed of 410 km/h for the model.

The listing gives VF9SV25244M795063 as the chassis number. It also gives a delivery date of May 21, 2014. Its first owner lived in Dubai. Later, the car passed to owners in Germany and then Switzerland. Through all of that, it saw sparing use. At the time of the sale, the odometer showed 3,766 kilometers, roughly 2,340 miles.

So the catalog offered bidders three things at once. The car came from a three-car build run, had a short ownership chain and showed fewer than 4,000 kilometers.

How the Veyron auction record compared with the estimate

Before the sale, the car carried an estimate of CHF 2.4 million to CHF 2.8 million. That range comes from Magneto’s report on the Zurich results. In the end, the final figure cleared the top of that range by more than CHF 1.7 million.

In its post-sale press release, RM Sotheby’s said the Wimille car “stole the limelight.” It also called the result a world record auction price. However, the release does not name the earlier holder of the Veyron auction record. For that reason, the comparison below uses RM’s own published sales rather than an outside list.

The best earlier reference point in the auction house’s own records is another one-off Veyron. That car is a 2010 Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport called Sang Bleu. Bugatti built it as a single car for its centenary. RM Sotheby’s sold it at its Miami sale in 2024 for $3,085,000, according to that lot’s results page. Because the two results are in different currencies, treat any side-by-side as approximate.

The rest of the Zurich sale

The Veyron topped a sale that RM Sotheby’s says grossed CHF 16,302,075. By Magneto’s count, 17 of 23 cars sold, a result it described as mixed.

The auction house’s release lists the next-best results in order. First, a 1991 Ferrari F40 brought CHF 3,323,750, the second-best price of the night. Next, a 2023 Ferrari 812 Competizione A made CHF 1,850,000, ahead of a 1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S. Formerly owned by René Arnoux, that Miura sold for CHF 1,805,000. A 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Vantage followed at CHF 1,040,000, the fifth lot over CHF 1 million.

Further down the list came a 2005 Ferrari Superamerica at CHF 961,250 and a 1970 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Berlinetta at CHF 680,000. Measured against that company, the Veyron accounted for more than a quarter of the evening’s total on its own.

For the record, lot 113 at RM Sotheby’s Zurich sale was the Wimille Grand Sport Vitesse with 3,766 kilometers. By RM Sotheby’s count, it set a Veyron auction record on September 26, 2026, selling for CHF 4,505,000.

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