Bugatti sell their 400th Veyron – just 50 left to go. But what next for Bugatti?

Bugatti had announced that they’ve sold a total of 400 of the 450 Bugatti Veyrons they plan to make, eight years after the Veyron was first revealed.

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Bugatti may have come to rely on ‘Special Edition’ Veyrons to keep making sales, but they’re now getting close to the end of their production run.

The Veyron – which debuted in 2005 – is limited to a total of 300 coupes and 150 Roadsters, and all the coupes are long gone with just the Roadsters left to finish their run, and only 50 of are those left to sell.

Not surprisingly, the 400th Veyron to be sold – the latest Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Jean-Pierre Wimille Special Edition – went to a client in the Middle East at a hefty €2.14 million which, at a rates of around one a week sold for the last eight years, means the Veyron will be consigned to the Bugatti history book by the end of 2014.

Production of the Veyron will probably continue for much of 2015 as Bugatti fulfils the last Veyron orders, but what of the Veyron’s replacement?

We’ve had rumours of everything from a four-door Bugatti – the Bugatti Galibier – to an even more extreme take on the Veyron, but even Bugatti don’t seem to know what to do next.

Bugatti boss, Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, recently confirmed there will be a new Bugatti to follow on from the Veyron, but he declared it wouldn’t be a four-door limousine (which probably rules out the Galibier) and nor would it compete with the Veyron as the world’s fastest production car. All Dr Schreiber would say is that the next Bugatti will be an outstanding sports car.

Which sounds like Bugatti still don’t know where to go post Veyron.