When your car is worth more than a luxurious mansion, you want to enjoy it as much as you can, including driving it to exclusive events.
- Supercar Owners Circle organizes events for hypercar owners to showcase their rare and limited production vehicles and share their passion for these expensive toys on wheels.
- The Bugatti La Voiture Noire, valued at $19 million, made an appearance at an event in Croatia, where it was raced on a drag strip and showcased its powerful performance capabilities.
- The La Voiture Noire was inspired by the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic from the 1930s and is a handcrafted vehicle with a unique design, featuring a W16 quad-turbocharged engine and a luxurious leather interior.
Supercars are not just garage queens. Some of them are driven by their owners, who understand that a moving piece of art is not made just to sit on a floor in an environmentally controlled safe room. But, they are unlikely to daily drive them to a grocery store or to a nearby 7-Eleven to take their coffee in the morning before they start their shifts. Still, they will want to enjoy them, and what better place to do that than in front of other super-expensive supercars?
That’s why a company started events dedicated to those who want to share their passion for superfast and pricey toys. One of the events took place in Croatia and was backed up by no other than Mate Rimac, Bugatti’s CEO and the founder of Rimac car company. For those who don’t know, this automaker is based in that small Eastern European republic. Unsurprisingly, YouTuber Shmee attended the event with his brand-new Zenvo.
The Proud Organizer
Supercar Owners Circle is an organization that aims to create events for those who own hypercars. They are gathering together under the same roof (sometimes that means open-air), prestigious car manufacturers, luxury brands, and famous people who are interested in sharing their experience with these expensive toys on wheels. It doesn’t matter the manufacturing year of the vehicle as long as it’s a rare historic car or a very limited production unit. As a result, the event from Croatia was the place to display vehicles such as the Ruf CTR, the original Koenigsegg CC8S, or fresh-from-the-oven vehicles such as the Zenvo TSR-S.
Supercar Owners Circle is an organization that aims to create events for those who own hypercars. They are gathering together under the same roof (sometimes that means open-air), prestigious car manufacturers, luxury brands, and famous people who are interested in sharing their experience with these expensive toys on wheels. It doesn’t matter the manufacturing year of the vehicle as long as it’s a rare historic car or a very limited production unit. As a result, the event from Croatia was the place to display vehicles such as the Ruf CTR, the original Koenigsegg CC8S, or fresh-from-the-oven vehicles such as the Zenvo TSR-S.
Since the organizer knew that supercar owners would want to stretch their vehicle’s wheels on a drag strip, they prepared one. Even though it wasn’t about car-to-car races, it was a timed quarter-mile line where every car owner could push their vehicles to their absolute limits. Well, not all of them. Some just pushed them mildly to save their tires. Others, instead, burned rubber in controlled drifts a few hundred yards. That’s how Rimac drivers understood to show their electric hypercar capabilities. But one particular vehicle stood apart: the mighty Bugatti La Voiture Noire (the Black Car).
An Undercover Celebrity Behind The Wheel
There are several rumors regarding the car’s owner, but whoever drove it didn’t pamper it on the drag strip. While the first launch was made more cautious, and the one behind the wheel pressed the gas pedal all the way down only a few yards after the starting line, it became bolder in the second run. Finally, at the last sprint, he gave it all the beans and launched it properly. While the official timing wasn’t disclosed, we know that the Bugatti Veyron has similar specs to its sibling, the Chiron. Unofficial data shows that the older brother of the La Voiture Noire says that it can cover a quarter-mile run in 9.6 seconds on unprepped surfaces.
Performance
Engine
8-liter, W16, quad-turbocharged
0-60 MPH
2.5 seconds
Top Speed
261 MPH
Dry Weight
4,409 lbs.
Horsepower
1,479 HP
Torque
1,180 lb-ft.
Layout
Mid-mounted, all-wheel-drive
The car is registered in Switzerland, Europe, and had at least one license plate on it before the current one, which was displayed on the event from Croatia. It is a unique vehicle that had a price tag of $19 million, and allegedly, the first owner sold it to the one who raced it at the event organized by the Supercar Owners Club. At the same time as the car was purchased, Bugatti also sold a one-million watch to Cristiano Ronaldo, the football player.
