• Early example of Bugatti's tremendous 1001hp 8.0-litre W16 hypercar • Delivered new in Germany • Two-tone Chocolate/Deep Red Metallic over Grenadine leather interior • One registered owner • 13,500 kilometres from new "The Bugatti Veyron has recalibrated that which can be achieved by the motor car." – Autocar.

To say that the Bugatti Veyron caused a sensation when it arrived in 2005 would be a gross understatement; for here was a car that didn't just rewrite the supercar rule book so much as tear it up and start afresh.

All the more remarkable was the fact that the Veyron was the dream of one man: Ferdinand Piech, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, which had acquired the Bugatti brand in 1998.

Piech's ambition was to create a car that had 1,000 horsepower at its disposal, could exceed 400km/h, and cost €1 million.

Turning Piech's dream into a reality would prove to be an immensely difficult undertaking, even for a company with Volkswagen's technological resources, and the result would ...