The only Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse with a bare polished-aluminum body, chassis 8.100, has been certified and returned to its original specification by Bugatti's heritage program and now lives with a new owner on the French Riviera. No price was disclosed.
Bugatti has put one of the strangest Veyrons ever built back into circulation. Chassis 8.100 is a Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse whose body was made from exposed, polished aluminum rather than painted carbon fiber, a one-off commissioned by a customer. Bugatti's heritage and certification arm, La Maison Pur Sang, has certified it, refurbished it and returned it to its original look, and the car now lives with a new owner on the French Riviera, the Bugatti Newsroom said on Oct 15, 2026.
Bugatti didn't say what the car changed hands for, or who bought it. There's no published price, so treat any number you see elsewhere with caution.
More than a decade after it was built, the car went back to Molsheim for a full certification, a refurbishment and a reconfiguration. The main job was undoing later changes: Bugatti says personalization added by previous owners was removed so the car once again matches the specification it left the factory with. La Maison Pur Sang is the program Bugatti uses to research a car's history, certify it and, where an owner wants, restore or update it, and it also helps collectors find specific cars.
"The aluminum-bodied VEYRON Grand Sport Vitesse represents a remarkable expression of BUGATTI's unparalleled craft and visionary spirit," said Luigi Galli, Bugatti's heritage and certification expert. Bugatti thanked the team at Mechatronik for its help with the photo shoot and with delivering the car.
Our Veyron auction tracker gives some context, though none of these cars is a true comparable for a one-off. The closest public result is another special Grand Sport Vitesse: the 2014 'Jean-Pierre Wimille' edition sold for CHF 4,505,000 at RM Sotheby's Zurich sale on Sep 26, 2026. A 2011 Veyron Grand Sport (the earlier, less powerful roadster) sold for $3,305,000 at Broad Arrow's Quail auction on Aug 14, 2026.
Regular 2008 coupes have sold in a tighter band this year: $1,957,500 at Broad Arrow Amelia (Mar 7), $2,200,000 at Mecum Indy (May 16) and $2,232,500 at RM Monterey (Aug 15). In other words, open-top Vitesses and documented special editions are trading well above the coupes, and a car like 8.100 sits above even that tier.
This is a provenance story more than a market signal. Factory certification matters most on cars like this, where the value depends on the car being exactly what it claims to be. Bugatti removing later personalization and restoring the original spec is the factory putting its name behind that story, and it's the kind of paperwork that tends to support a price when a one-off eventually reappears in public.
It also shows where Bugatti is putting its commercial energy: heritage, certification and resale support for existing cars, not just selling new ones.
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