Most expensive car rare bugatti was sold for 25 million

A vintage Bugatti racing car has set a record after being sold to a collector for £2.5 million, say auctioneers. The 1928 Type 35B, which competed in the first Monaco Grand Prix and has all its original components, has become the most expensive car of its kind following the private sale in Britain. The design classic, which also won the demanding Italian road race, Targa Florio, was snapped up by an unnamed “highly-regarded international collector” after being sold by its previous owner, the former Samsung chairman and billionaire Lee Kun-hee. Prior to Mr Lee, previous owners over the past eight decades included the eccentric British car collector and pilot Hamish Moffat, who died in 2002 aged 71, and Swiss Baron Emmanuel ‘Toulo’ de Graffenried, who died in January 2007 aged 92.

The most expensive car was the work of the brilliant Italian designer, Ettore Bugatti, whose factory in Alsace, France, earned him a reputation as the greatest maker of racing cars until his fellow Italian Enzo Ferrari began to dominate the scene in later years. Despite the Bugatti’s high price tag, the most expensive car is still thought to be a black Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder bought by the BBC Radio 2 presenter, Chris Evans, earlier this year for £5,089,280.
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