GENEVA: The most expensive new car ever sold is a one-off Bugatti luxury sports car that has gone for $18.9 million (€16.7 million).
“La Voiture Noire” — French for “The Black Car” — is a low-slung sports car with a huge 16-cylinder engine and Bugatti’s trademark front grille.
The manufacturer unveiled it at the Geneva auto show this week, and said Thursday that it had been sold at what it and industry experts said was a record price for a new car.
The identity of the buyer was not revealed, though the buzz surrounding the move will have burnished Bugatti’s image as a maker of luxury trophy cars.
Stephan Winkelmann, the president of Volkswagen-owned Bugatti, said: “The true form of luxury is individuality.”
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Most expensive new car ever: Bugatti sells for $19 million
Most expensive new car ever: Bugatti sells for $19 million
- The manufacturer unveiled it at the Geneva auto show this week
- The identity of the buyer was not revealed
Passengers flee snake at Australian train station
- Footage showed the small serpent wriggling down the platform in the city of Sydney on Sunday night
Commuters jumped in fright as a snake slithered across a city train platform in Australia, proving nowhere is safe from the nation’s creepy-crawlies.
Footage showed the small serpent wriggling down the platform in the city of Sydney on Sunday night.
One woman abandons her bike after spotting the snake and flees in the opposite direction, while other passengers anxiously huddle together on the platform.
The impasse is solved when one passenger plucks up the courage to hoist the snake by its tail and drop it over the hand railing.
“A passenger who got off a train took it upon himself to handle the intruder,” said government agency Transport for New South Wales, adding that “the man did not flinch.”
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