Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+

France accounts for just 23 of the 600 cars in this catalogue, yet one of them stands almost at the very summit of every performance measure that matters. The Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ is not simply one more French entry. It is the point where that national cohort reaches its highest expression through engineering, combining the third highest power output in the collection, the fifth highest top speed and the seventh quickest sprint to 100 km/h. Those rankings explain its importance more clearly than any isolated specification ever could.

Its numbers reinforce that position without needing embellishment. An 8.0 litre, turbocharged engine producing 1,578 bhp and 1,600 Nm sends drive to all four wheels, reaching 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds before continuing to a top speed of 440 km/h. Read on their own, they are extraordinary figures. Read against the other 599 cars here, they become even more revealing. Only two cars in the entire catalogue produce more power, only four travel faster, and only six reach 100 km/h sooner. This is performance measured not against expectation but against the strongest company available.

Exclusivity follows the same pattern. Production totalled 30 cars between 2019 and 2022. Within this catalogue, only 16 of the 177 cars tracked by production numbers are rarer. That rarity is reflected in a used value of £5,500,000, the second highest in the collection, placing it above 598 other cars. Even viewed through the practical lens of cost per bhp, at £3,485, it remains a fascinating exercise in how extreme engineering and extreme value intersect rather than cancel each other out.

The wider catalogue gives the car further context. Bugatti contributes 10 cars, yet this variant occupies the highest reaches of the performance tables while also sitting close to the rarest and most valuable machinery available. It represents both the marque and its country with unusual concentration, carrying France into conversations normally dominated by sheer numerical comparison and then excelling within those comparisons.

Some cars fill a gap in a collection. This one redraws its centre of gravity.

It changes the whole conversation.