$1.1 billion worth of cars were gathered on the Wynn’s golf course. A large percentage of them were post 2000 super and hypercars.
In my ten years of writing this blog, I’ve had some wonderful opportunities to cover some exquisite cars far outside of my tax band – but I’ve never been around such a vast quantity of 7 figure cars. It was a surreal experience!
I had thought about breaking this up into smaller, easier to digest posts where I could go more indepth with some of the cars. However, if I were to do that I think we would lose the concept of the sheer quantity of cars on display here. It was truly mind-boggling!
Firstly we’ll start with Bugatti.
Bugatti celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Veyron this year, and to mark the event the largest collection of Veyrons ever accumulated was at this event. The exact number of cars seems to be a bit up in the air. Sources range between 46 and 49 cars, with most suggesting 47.
The Chiron that followed was also strongly represented.
Bugatti themselves displayed a Tourbillon which is set to be the replacement for the Chiron.
Now lets move away from these mainstream, mass production Bugattis on to something a little more specialist. (That’s a sentence I really have no business typing haha! At a normal show any of the above cars would be the focal point for my article, the ones to get the clicks in, here they’re just popped into a gallery. It’s so surreal!)
Lets start with the Mistral. The Mistral is the last road car to feature Bugatti’s iconic quad turbo W16 (more on that later).
It is the fastest roadster in the world having achieved a top speed of 282mph in November 2024.
99 were built and all were sold before production began and each unit cost £4.2 million ($5 million).
The Divo, named after the 1920s Grand Prix driver Albert Divo, is a track focused monster based on the Chiron.
40 were produced with a starting price of £4.4 million, again all 40 were sold just after the car’s debut. (Imagine shelling out nearly 4 and a half million pounds for a car you’ve never driven, and 40 people were able to do it.)
Now for my favourite – the Bolide. I said earlier that the Mistral was the last road car to feature Bugatti’s W16, well this is really the last hurrah. It doesn’t need to conform to any road regulations, it was simply built to be as fast as possible.
Finally we have the Centodieci – built to celebrate Bugatti’s 110th anniversary and as a tribute to the Bugatti EB110. This one is sporting a livery worn by the EB110LM that raced at LeMans in 1994.
There were 44 – yes 44 – Paganis at this event. There were a number of the original Zonda:
The newest model, the Utopia:
Along with the Huayra which is the Zonda’s replacement. I thought the Utopia was going to be a successor for the Huayra, but this platform is still being built.
The Codalunga is a long tailed variant of the Huayra of which only 5 coupes were produced.
As you can see the Codalunga was displayed on a large Pagani stand, and there’s a good reason for that. Pagani chose the Wynn Concours as the place to make the public debut of the new Codalunga Speedster.
10 of these will be produced, and I overheard that several had been sold at the event (Take that with a pinch of salt though, I only overheard it in passing). There isn’t an official price yet, but its estimated to be over $7 million (£5.3 million).
Horatio Pagani was also there and spoke on stage, through a translator of course. It was very interesting! (He’s the chap in the center with the microphone).
To round off the hypercar trifecta from Bugatti and Pagani we of course have to look at Koenigsegg.
Christian Von Koenigsegg’s creations were well represented with a number of Ageras.
A couple of Regeras, with the Koenigsegg Direct Drive (KDD) single speed gearbox. It’s a very unusual bit of technology.
Along with the Jesko. There were a couple in the Attack configuration.
There were also a couple in the low drag, high speed variation the Absolut, which was really cool to see as I hadn’t met one in the metal (or carbon in this case) before.
The Gumpert Apollo. An unflattering name but a very cool car. 44 of these were built from 2005 to 2012. Gumpert filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and in 2016 became Apollo Automobile which sounds much cooler! Apollo went on to build the IE (Intensa Emozione) which is a fabulous looking machine.
The Praga Bohema from the Czech Republic. This is powered by a modified Nissan GTR engine, with turbos from the UK’s own Litchfield. However, it’s obviously a lot lighter than it’s Japanese origin.
Pininfarina, the famous Italian coachbuilder who did a lot of Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati bodies in the 1960s (as well as some British Leyland gems like the A40) build the electric Battista – named after the companies founder.
Alfa Romeo brought along the gorgeous Type 33 Stradale. This might be my new favourite modern car. It’s stunning!
Czinger Vehicles is an unusual American brand you might not have heard of. Their car – the 21C features a lot of 3D printed components.
This car covered a thousand miles across California over five days. On each day it set a production car record at a different track. This feat became known as the California Gold Rush.
The SSC Tuatara. This was briefly the fastest car in the world amongst much speculation of footage editing. This is the ‘Aggressor’ package which allowed customers to choose some non-road legal options.
This is the ‘Striker’ which had some more aggressive aerodynamics for track driving over the standard car.
Two Aston Martin Valkyries. I love these things! I’m not too sure about the one with all the crystals, but I’m not in a financial position to critique someone else’s Valkyrie haha!
Mercedes were represented with the AMG One.
A couple of SLS AMGs. These are still a lottery win car for me – silver with red leather interior.
There was also the SLR. This was a joint venture between Mercedes and McLaren as McLaren were getting back into making road cars following the F1 in the early 1990s.
Some of McLaren’s other road cars.
The Speedtail! It was nice to finally see one of these in person.
The Gulf liveried Elva.
The Marlboro liveried Senna was a cool throw back design too. Senna’s famous World Championship winning McLaren MP4/4 wore a Marlboro livery.
Finally a Solus GT. Although I’ve never been to Goodwood, I watch it every year and watching one of these conquer the hill was mesmerising. It’s a fantastic machine! Again, it looks great in the old F1 tribute livery.
Both generations of the tribute Ford GT were present.
There were a surprisingly small number of modern Ferraris.
This is the new Ferrari Amalfi, it’s the new GT that will be replacing the Roma.
Of course there were plenty of Lamborghinis, over 200 in fact!
The Huracan is a popular platform to modify in the U.S. They are used a lot in roll racing and 1/2 mile drag racing too.
I didn’t really understand the Sterrato when it first came out. However, I bet on terrain like a dry lake bed I reckon it’s a blast! I doubt it’s a slouch on the road either despite the slightly higher center of gravity. Even in the U.K it sort of makes sense as you won’t need to worry about potholes.
The Temerario is the Huracan’s replacement. I’ll be curious to see if it becomes as popular as the Huracan in racing and modification circles.
The Urus is seemingly popular the world over. In my opinion it’s a car that has to suit it’s surroundings if that makes sense? In a tiny medieval English village it would look stupid and pretentious, but in an ultra modern city like Dubai it looks right at home.
The Aventador rounds off the cars of this particular era.
The Revuelto is the Aventador’s successor.
Prior to the Aventador was the Murcielago.
Now we get into the unicorn Lamborghinis.
The Reventon came onto the market in 2007. It was very much inspired my contemporary jet fighters which would set the stage for the Aventador and Huracan which also have very jet fighter-esqe feel to their designs.
I have fond memories of the Reventon. It was my favourite car in Need for Speed: Shift which was a quality game back in the day.
The Sesto Elemento, the Sixth Element – named after Carbon, the sixth element of the periodic table, which features heavily in the cars construction. Only 20 of this track only monster were produced.
The Centenario was built to celebrate Ferruccio Lamborghini’s 100th birthday. 40 were produced – 20 coupes and 20 roadsters.
The reimagining of the Countach was quite a controversy at the time. It doesn’t have the character of the original car, but it never will – it’s a different thing of a different time. As a tribute though, I think it does a very good job.
The Sian was Lamborghini’s first foray into hybrid technology. It’s based on the Aventador but houses an electric motor in the gearbox in place of the Aventador’s traditional starter motor.
Finally we have my favourite Lamborghini of all time – the Veneno.
The Veneno came out in 2013 to celebrate Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary. 4 coupes were built (of which this is one) along with 9 roadsters. It’s based loosely on the Aventador but is basically Lamborghini’s vision for a road legal LeMans Prototype.
I’ll be honest, I simply think it’s one of the craziest looking cars of all time. It’s so aggressive!
Thanks for reading! Well done if you got to the end!
As I said at the beginning the sheer quantity of amazing supercars at this show was mind-blowing. That’s why I made the decision to cover the supercars as one post rather than several smaller ones, I wanted that quantity to come across to you, my reader.
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