A photograph taken on February 4, 2020 shows the Bugatti logo on a displayed car during the Retromobile classic car show at Porte de Versailles, in Paris.
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The COVID-19 pandemic may have affected plenty of businesses across the globe in 2021, but that was certainly not the case for luxury car brand Bugatti. It was a record-setting year for Bugatti with all the company's highly popular Chiron allocations already spoken for. The final deliveries were set to happen by the end of this year.
Demand for Bugatti at an all-time high
The French car manufacturer announced that 150 customers ordered and personalized a car last year. The company's reach is expanding, with 60 percent of those said customers new to the brand. Bugatti plans on delivering at least 80 of those cars this year.
Demand for the Chirons was very high, with only 40 of those ultra-expensive hypercars up for grabs out of the 500 Bugatti will build as of November 2021. The final cars that Bugatti will produce in 2022 for the Chiron will be its Super Sport and Super Sport 300+ versions. Bugatti will make only 30 cars for each version with the "regular" Chiron and Chiron Pur Sport models already built.
Aside from making the first deliveries of the Super Sport 300+ last year, Bugatti was also able to make the final deliveries of the one-off La Voiture Noire and the Divo. Bugatti's Bolide hypercars are sold out as well, with the track-only vehicles already spoken for just a couple of months after its production was announced at The Quail during Monterey Car Week last year.
Bugatti planned to make only 40 versions of the Bolide, and all were snapped up quickly. There is progress with Bugatti's EB110-inspired Centodieci, with 10 of those units set to be delivered this year.
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Safety an issue for Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport with cracks found in rear tires
Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport grabbed the headlines for the wrong reasons this week after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States published a recall, saying that the supercar's rear tires may start to crack after being driven 2,500 miles. Bugatti released an advisory to the nine American Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport owners, saying that they should not drive the car if their current set of tires already has more than 2,500 miles on them.
To avoid having these cracks, Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport owners will need to have their tires replaced every 1.5 years or 1,875 miles, whichever of the two comes first. Bugatti does not have tires to fix this specific problem yet. Bugatti will offer tire replacements to the owners to address this issue, with the company installing them at no charge. These tires are the same ones that the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport were fitted with before.
The Chiron era may soon be coming to an end, but the future remains bright for Bugatti after the company announced in November its joint venture with Rimac. Fans can expect electrification to feature in their upcoming releases, with the automotive industry trending in that direction.
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