The average Bugatti owner has 84 cars, 3 jets and one yacht
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron#ref_1
[2] http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-biggest/the-10-bigge...
Essentially all this number tells us that 400 people who own Buggati collectively own ~33600 cars total.[0] For example Jay Leno alone owns 886 vehicles according to his wikipedia page. [1]
[0] This has assumption that no one owns, more than 1 Buggati car which is probably incorrect, so I expect actual number of cars owned by Buggati owners to be in the ballpark of 24-26k.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leno
Source: I own an oldish budget friendly Nissan, which clearly makes me an expert.
Image Fred Everyman. For some reason, the only car he can afford is a Bugatti Veyron, and he needs a car to get to work. How much does this cost Fred?
A basic new Bugatti Veyron seems to cost about $1.55 million. A normal car loan is for 3 or 4 years, but let's assume Fred can get a 30 year loan. He's got pretty good credit, and he ends up with a 4% interest rate. Unfortunately, Fred also needs auto insurance, which for a Veyron will run about $50,000 per year.
Fred's loan payment is about $7900/mo, and his insurance payment is about $4166/mo. Oh, and a Veyron only gets about 7mpg in a city, so we'll say his monthly gas bill is another $300.
Add that up, and Fred needs to make $12366 per month, post-tax, just to pay for his car (not counting tires, tune-ups, fixing the paint after people tag it). In order to have $12,366 of monthly net pay, Fred needs an annual pre-tax salary of around $315,000.
So a $315,000 yearly salary will allow Fred to own his Veyron in 30 years. If he wants to eat food or live somewhere, though, he'll of course need more.
(Warning: I almost certainly made at least 3 major mathematical or accounting errors in there somewhere).
Veyron is a kind of research experiment for VAG. It might be $2M for an example, but they lose something like $1.5M per car. It's just like the Lexus LFA being a test bed for carbon fiber manufacturing techniques.
I dont think by 84 cars it actually means a person owns a giant parking lot in front of this house and picks a car at random each day. He might have 4 cars at his home and others at different places in the world where he has to travel often.
First you get the money, then you get the Bently, then you get the Bugatti