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€3.8M, 1,800hp hybrid, Swiss-made watch dashboard — Bugatti kills turbos and kills convention. Production September 2026.

<cite index="18-20,18-21">Bugatti has introduced a new V16 engine that is naturally aspirated in sharp contrast to the Chiron and Veyron, which had four turbochargers.</cite> <cite index="19-8">No more than 250 examples will be produced at 3.8 million euros net.</cite> <cite index="20-2">Full-scale production will commence in September 2026.</cite> Hypercar forums split: the manual-gearbox absolutists (there isn't one) quietly furious, but the naturally aspirated die-hards on Pistonheads suddenly found religion.

<cite index="18-6,18-7">Bugatti has discontinued the Chiron and introduced the Tourbillon, which introduces a new naturally aspirated V16 engine paired with an advanced hybrid system.</cite> <cite index="23-3,23-4">The naturally aspirated 8.3-liter V16 engine revs to 9,000 rpm and is paired with three electric motors and a 24.8-kWh battery to produce a combined 1,775 horsepower.</cite> <cite index="23-5,23-6">Bugatti claims a 0-62 mph time of two seconds, with a top speed of 276 mph.</cite> <cite index="21-12,21-13,21-14">The interior features a completely analog instrument cluster crafted by Swiss horologists, composed of over 600 parts made from titanium and gemstones including sapphire and ruby, set as the focal point with the steering wheel rotating around it.</cite> <cite index="23-1">The Tourbillon is the first all-new Bugatti in two decades, with a ground-up redesign.</cite> Mate Rimac, Bugatti's CEO, confirmed zero shared components with the Chiron — a rare moment of transparency in hypercar theatre. Deliveries promised late 2026, but Alpine Pass talk suggests customer cars won't arrive until H1 2027.

Broad Arrow reset the Carrera GT market at $6.7M in March. RM's July sale: one for $1.65M. The floor just dropped.

<cite index="25-1,25-2,25-3">The 2004 Porsche Carrera GT at the RM Sotheby's Tegernsee 2026 sale sold for $1,652,531, around a million dollars less than the cheapest of at least seven Carrera GTs sold thus far in 2026.</cite> <cite index="25-5">The current Porsche Carrera GT model record is $6,715,000, set at the Broad Arrow Amelia Island auction on 6 March 2026.</cite> <cite index="25-7,25-8">This 2004 Porsche Carrera GT had a troublesome history, delivered new to the United States with its engine replaced under warranty and subject to a Manufacturer Buyback as part of the 'Lemon Law'.</cite> PistonHeads and the Carrera GT discord are already in full forensic mode: the car's Lemon Law past crushed value by half a million, and the Broad Arrow record suddenly looks even more like a cherry-picked outlier.

<cite index="25-13,25-14,25-15">RM Sotheby's held its second Tegernsee classic car auction on 4 July 2026 at Gut Kaltenbrunn in Gmund am Tegernsee near Munich during the Concours of Elegance Germany, earning €10.5 million from the sale with a 91% sell-through rate featuring only 24 lots including 20 cars.</cite> <cite index="25-10">The top results at the RM Sotheby's Tegernsee 2026 auction were for a 2009 Ferrari 599XX Evo and a 2023 Ferrari 812 Competizione.</cite> <cite index="25-16">The most expensive car in the sale, a 2015 Koenigsegg One:1, failed to sell, with bidding stopping well short of the in excess of €10 million pre-sale estimate.</cite> The Tegernsee event landed during the Concours of Elegance Germany weekend — a smaller, curated affair than the Monaco spring madness. Buyers are clearly tightening: a €10M Koenigsegg reserve was optimistic at best, and the Carrera GT's market humbling suggests that Broad Arrow's $6.7M figure (sold to a known collector/flipper) may have poisoned buyer sentiment for ordinary examples.