Bugatti Chiron

"Super Sport" has come to mean "world-record speed" at Bugatti, and the Chiron Super Sport remains true to its heritage. The newest member of the Chiron family has been painstakingly optimized for world-beating grades of acceleration and speed.

After the first big online-only foray by the biggest automotive auction cluster on Planet Earth, it's clear that automobiles are not particularly suited to online-only auctions, but that significant strides were made in the right direction.

Watchmaker Jacob & Co and carmaker Bugatti have teamed up again to produce the Twin Turbo Furious 300+ wristwatch. With styling inspired by the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ hypercar, the new timepiece is available in a limited run of three units.

Last time Bugatti made a black car, it literally called it "the black car." It did so, however, in French, which as we all know confers a certain unwashed classiness to things, and La Voiture Noire quickly became the most expensive new car ever to be sold, at a horrific US$12.3 million.

Bugatti has broken the production car speed record with a timed run of 304.773 mph by the Bugatti Chiron.

"The Quail – a Motorsport Gathering" was already a world class automotive lifestyle event and concours of gravitas, but this year "The Quail" played host to 11 major vehicle debuts and could rightfully boast to have the world's highest concentration of Ultra High Net Worth Petrolheads.

Car auctions have made the digital transition far better than most industries, and while we may no longer have the rampant bull market of a few years ago, the collectible car industry looks in better shape than ever. Here's a selection of the more interesting lots that sold in Paris.

A bit too late to order a coveted Bugatti Chiron? More of a do-it-yourselfer? Why not make one from Lego Technic parts? That’s what Lego has done, building a full-sized, functioning Chiron almost entirely from Legos, right down to the powerplant. It may not be fast, but it’s really dang cool.

Bugatti has released its newest hypercar at Monterey. The Divo is significantly slower than the Chiron it's based on, topping out at "just" 236 mph (380 km/h) - but it's so much better in the corners that it's 8 seconds faster around a track. It's also twice as expensive, and already sold out.

Lego has extended its Technic range to include a one-eighth scale Bugatti Chiron. Designers visited the Bugatti factory to get hands-on with the iconic supercar​ and help them create their model, which is 22 in long (56 cm) and issues a 3,599-piece challenge to Lego aficionados.​

Bugatti has unveiled a new Chiron Sport model at the Geneva Motor Show, promising the same power and performance with better handling and capability. The Chiron Sport shaves significant times off the lap, for just a couple of hundred thousand Euros more.

Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.