Wrecked Bugattis have always been worthy of a post, even in the early days of Jalopnik. A crashed Bugatti Chiron is unusual enough, but this time, it’s personal. This 2021 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport we found on Copart appears to be the same one we reviewed back in 2022, just with a purple wrap added on.
This car made the rounds as a press car back in the day. Our beloved former editor-in-chief Rory Carroll made a special trip to New York just to drive it. If someone were willing to throw me the keys to a $4 million hypercar, I’d move heaven and earth to take them up on the opportunity, too. In a way, this car even double-dipped into the annals of Jalopnik history, as fancy Kristen also got a turn behind the wheel, albeit for another great website.
After its time as a press car, this Chiron became a dealer demo car for a while before finally being sold to a private owner. I imagine depreciation might have brought the price down to a reasonable $3 million, which seems like barely more than the average used car these days. That buyer must have had a particularly bad day when this car saw its end.
The ultimate project car
The Copart listing doesn’t have much information, most notably the price, but here’s what we can put together. The car is now in Miami, Florida, just like most retirees from the northeast. The car actually looks pretty good from the side and rear. The damage seems to be concentrated only in the front. In a regular car, it wouldn’t be that bad. However, this is a Bugatti. The damage to its carbon-fiber shell is quite tricky to repair properly. Both front airbags have also deployed, which is visible in the interior photos. This is probably why the insurance chose to total it rather than repair it.
However, this is the perfect opportunity for a shadetree hobbyist like you to own the car of your dreams. You wouldn’t be the first person to make your own carbon-fiber repairs in your garage. The airbags have already been cut away, so you can pop the covers back in place and forget they aren’t there. Then you should invite me to come drive it and add to the car’s Jalopnik history. It would be like bookends on a perfect existence. Don’t worry about the difficulty of the repair. As another famous car reviewer once said, “How hard could it be?”
