Ronaldo did not buy the most expensive car in the world, but then who?

Car The Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is not the buyer of the most expensive car ever. Numerous media reported last week that the Portuguese soccer star is the exclusive, jet-black Bugatti La Voiture Noire has purchased, but the official spokesman of Ronaldo confirmed to the American website TMZ that there is nothing of true: “The story is not true. He has that car, not bought.”

the question Remains who is willing to 16.7 million euros to pay for the extremely expensive sports car, of which only one copy is being built. Probably, we know that only about two years. Only then is the car ready and the buyer will first publicly appear.

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in the Meantime, there is press speculation about the person than does the extremely expensive sports car has been ordered. That may look forward to a 8.0 litre, 16 cylinder engine and a top speed of 420 km/h. Bugatti had a special auction for La Voiture Noire is organized, where only the most loyal customers of the brand may compete. The car manufacturer had an opening bid of 11 million euro will be defined, but that was the ultimate buyer with 16.7 million largely over.

TMZ calls Floyd Mayweather, the flamboyant American topbokser that often the money let it roll. But a lot of the media deem the chance that Ferdinand Piëch, the buyer is. Piëch is the former ceo of the Volkswagen Group, the current parent company of Bugatti. He is known as a big car enthusiast and is a descendant of Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who before the Second world War the Volkswagen Beetle developed and later the successful sportwagenmerk Porsche founded.

La Voiture Noire is inspired by the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, of which between 1936 and 1938 four are made. Three of these Atlantic Coupé's are in the hands of wealthy collectors who, approximately 40 million euros for paid. The latest instance is still missing.