The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Is the $3.6 Million Ultimate Chiron

this is a bugatti chiron pure sport and it is the ultimate version of one of the ultimate cars this is the most impressive bugatti on sale at the moment it's a handling focused version of the shiron limited to 60 units for the entire world with a sticker price of around three and a half million dollars and today i'm going to review it before i get started be sure to check out cars and bins which is my enthusiast car auction website for cool cars from the modern era we have had some amazing sales recently on cars and bids including this subaru wrx sti hatchback that sold for 38 000 with only 14 000 miles this beautiful corvette z06 which sold for 67 000 and this fantastic tesla model x which sold for 51 000 we've done incredibly well with tesla's and frankly everything else on cars and bids so if you're looking to sell your cool car from the 1980s and up cars and bids is the best place to get the most views the most bids and the most money for your cool car check it out at carsandbids.com i've borrowed this shiron puresport from bugatti newport beach which is of course the bugatti dealership here in newport beach in southern california bugatti newport beach recently got this pure sport into their inventory it is the only one offered for sale right now in all of north america the shiron pure sport currently available at bugatti newport beach so let's talk shiron puresport the bugatti chiron came out back in 2016 and since then bugatti has released a few special edition models that enhance things a bit there was the track focused shiron sport then there was the shiron super sport with more power and now there's this the shiron puresport a handling focused version of the car designed for race track drivers with lighter weight and other improvements and it isn't cheap a regular shiron is very expensive but this is a step up from that figure around three and a half to four million dollars for this car but it gets you a lot around 1500 horsepower 0-60 in 2.4 seconds and exclusivity since bugatti will only make 60 units of the pure sport for the entire world and today i'm going to review this one first i'm going to take you on a tour of it and show you all of its interesting quirks and features then i'll get it out on the road and drive it and then i'll give it a doug score all right i'm going to start the quirks and features of the shiron pure sport by discussing the shiron box i have reviewed several bugatti models but i have never been able to show you the accessories that come with the bugatti the stuff they give you but i'm gonna do that today you spend over three million dollars for a car you get more than just a car you also get a box this box a rather sizable box this silver box with the bugatti logo on top and in the front it says shiron puresport very beautiful very luxurious box that comes with the car so what is inside the box well you open it up and the first thing you see is this blue folder that says bugatti on top and shiron in the middle this just contains some relatively minor paperwork a couple of documents from the factory letting you know the spec of the car this has the certificate of origin in it probably when you buy it this would also include your dealership information your purchase documents that sort of thing nothing too special but you lift up this blue folder and you're greeted by a piece of carbon fiber that says shiron pure sport and that's the beginnings of your box now you lift the foam off the first layer of your box here and you discover that this carbon fiber piece is actually a box itself you lift it out you can see it's trimmed to match the car so you have blue stitching all down the sides very beautiful and a lot of carbon fiber which matches a lot of the exterior carbon fiber of the car that is this special shiron puresport matching box so what's inside the box inside the box open it up and you will find your key placed right in the center like a piece of fine jewelry that of course unlocks and starts your shiron below that you have a usb stick which says one of 500 now i already mentioned the shiron puresport is one of 60 but they're going to make 500 total shiron so i guess every xiron owner gets the one of 500 usb regardless of which version of the car you have but that's in this box the key and the usb now you can see in this display area the key and usb are placed on this leather surface which is also trend with light blue stitching again to match the color of the car very beautiful and fantastic presentation and you can lift these items out you lift up this level of the box inside the box and then you get to another piece where you have your owner's manual in here this is the bugatti chiron official owner's manual this black book and i really love the fact that when you open it it talks about how environmentally friendly the owner's manual is printed on chlorine-free bleached cellulose thank you that's very important to have an environmentally friendly owner's manual for your seven mile per gallon car but they probably have to put that in probably all volkswagen group cars have that in there now one interesting thing on the next page of the owner's manual the welcome page you just have kind of a lot of buzzwords it's not really very personalized welcome to the most dynamic bugatti the elegant interior the radical steering blah blah blah it doesn't really say anything too crazy and that's generally true throughout this owner's manual very german very to the point not particularly charming or weird or frankly quirky now it's also worth noting sharing this area with the box inside the box you have some screws in the upper left corner of this part you also have the front license plate bracket here so if you want to mount a front license plate on your bugatti this is where you can do it i'm sure no one has ever done this at least not in the states but they can at least say hey we gave you the front license plate mount you just chose not to use it but anyway you lift up this layer of foam and you get down to a lower layer of the box and that's where you have the bugatti car cover that's what you see inside this bag with the bugatti logo on it that is your fitted bugatti chiron pier sport car cover also in this area you can see there's a hole and something is missing that's where the battery tender is located but because this car is on display in a showroom they've already taken the battery tender out and they're using it but that's where it would be and those are the contents of your bugatti chiron box you buy this car you get the box and that's what's inside now you know but anyway moving on from the box and on to the car next up in the quirks and features i want to discuss the spare key now there was a spot in the box for the spare key right next to the owner's manual there's a little hole but i've taken the spare key out because i want to highlight the fact that it is just a volkswagen audi folding key you have the bugatti logo on one side you have lock and unlock on the other side that's it i had this exact same key in a 2001 audi a4 that i owned and here it is in a three and a half million dollar exotic supercar now as i recall the bugatti veyron the predecessor to this car that was the only key it was just sort of a modified volkswagen key at least here it's the spare key and the actual key is nicer but it's still funny to see them giving that reused recycle it's got to be a 15 year old part that you get in a volkswagen jetta and here it is in the bugatti chiron but anyway the interior of this car now i'm not going to go over every single little thing in here like i usually do for supercars hyper cars at this price point because i've already done the bugatti chiron review and i recently did the bugatti devo which is pretty similar but i do want to cover the highlights and the first highlight that you notice when you climb in here is the interior materials in this car unlike in the regular shiron where you have beautiful fine leather and aluminum everywhere this car trades that stuff out for carbon fiber and alcantara it's trying to save weight and trying to get more racy and give it a sportier track focused feel to go along with the pure sport ideology it's stuff like that interior materials and other weight savings that have helped this car shed about 110 pounds compared to a regular bugatti chiron not a huge number for a car that's relatively heavy like this one is but it's still something makes it a little lighter for race track driving but anyway next up i want to move on to these very distinctive displays and dials in the center console of this car you can see there are four specific dials and right now they are displaying at the very top you have your horsepower that you're currently using then right below that you have your current speed that you're traveling then below that you have the rpm that you're currently at and then below that you have the gear that you're in four different dials with four different displays and you can change them to be various different things you go into the gauge cluster and you can adjust the center display to show a multitude of different items for instance if you go into performance mode in the gauge cluster and select that you can see now these center displays are showing things like the top speed that you have achieved during this trip if you go into cruise mode in the gauge cluster you can see now these center displays are showing things like your average speed your cruising range and your average fuel economy amazing that this car even offers the ability to check that but it does so you can set these displays to show basically whatever it is that you want and check this out there's a little hidden easter egg with these displays on the very bottom display there's a little button with arrows pointing if you press that and hold it down then the displays as you can see are now showing your climate control so you can adjust where the air is coming out your fan speed your climate temperature and on the bottom you can adjust your heated seats you press this little button with the arrows but don't hold it down and you can switch which seat you're adjusting and then you twist the little dial around the display and that lets you adjust the heated seat amount now if you hold down this bottom button again that will take your center displays back to whatever you had them displaying before and you can toggle between the display that you've selected with like your speed or whatever or your climate controls by pressing and holding down that button now you might be thinking this is an expensive car why didn't they just give it a center touch screen like everything else cheap cars have touch screens why does it this but there's a good reason for it bugatti knows these cars will be preserved and in 50 60 100 years they will still be around and they'll still be special and if bugatti had put a center touch screen in here it would start to look outdated very very quickly and so by minimizing the amount of screens in this car and instead going with these displays and dials you've essentially sort of future-proofed the car you've made sure it won't look so outdated and terrible when it's parked at a concur delegates in 35 years people won't look in and laugh at the terrible old screen and by the way speaking of relatively subtle controls in this car how about the cruise control system this car has cruise control but figuring out how to operate it is a bit of a challenge it's on the turn signal stock and it's confined to just two little controls for one there's a little switch you can turn from on to off that activates or deactivates cruise control and then there's a little switch at the end of the signal stock that lets you adjust the speed higher or lower that's it there's no path of the steering wheel devoted to all sorts of cruise control buttons you just have two little ones sort of subtly placed there you probably wouldn't even know you have it next i'm moving on to some other stuff that's cool in here for one the roof has these glass panels which are very beautiful you have one on the driver's side one on the passenger side a lot of these cars have a fixed coupe hard top roof which kind of makes the interior feel a little bit claustrophobic i like these glass panels because it brings in the outside makes it feel more open less claustrophobic in here although these panels don't open and as you can see you can get some sun through here so some people tint the panels unfortunately they don't operate where you just press the button and it auto tints like in some cars this is just what you have and speaking of the ceiling in this car one of my very favorite interior items in new bugatti models is the interior ambient light which is this light pipe that goes all the way from the ceiling all the way down behind the seats and then almost into the center consoles this giant sort of c-shape which is intended to mimic that same shape on the outside of the car you can see sort of going around the door and then curving up over the roof that is carried into the interior with the light so how does it operate as a light well you move this little switch on the ceiling and that turns the light on and then that's your interior dome light in your car probably just a little dome light on the ceiling in this it's this gorgeous c-shape going all the way through the interior very cool next up i want to talk about engines starting in this car to start the engine you press this giant red button on the steering wheel marked engine and that turns the car on now there is a little key slot on the dashboard next to the steering column where you can insert the key but you don't have to do that in order to start the engine this car has a proximity key so it will know if the key is in the car and it will let you start the engine or you can put it in that slot if you want to now also worth noting over on the other side of the steering wheel there's another red button that's actually a dial and you can use it to cycle through various different modes you have like a highway mode a high performance mode a regular bugatti mode and then over on the left an arrow pointing up that activates the lifter and so you twist the dial to that and then the lift will go up so you can clear sort of like driveways that might be steep or anything else where you might fear that you'll scrape your pure sport also worth discussing in here is the operation of the gear lever which is rather unusual when you start the cards in sort of the center to put it in drive you move it over to the right then you're in drive and it goes back to the center if you want to put it in neutral move it to the left you're in neutral and again it goes back to the center and if you want to put it in reverse move it to the left and then down then you're in reverse but again it pops back to the center now if you want to up shift or downshift while you're driving the car you can move the gear lever forward or backwards for upshift and downshift or you can just use the paddles on the steering wheel like most cars have your last operation with this gear lever if you want to put it in park you press the top it's actually a button and then the car goes into park kind of a strange operation but you do get used to it to me though one of this car's most amazing features is the sheer attention to detail in pretty much every space you can possibly find as an example in the door panel the storage pocket you open it up and you have the exterior color of the car in your door panel storage pocket you probably won't get in there all that often or see it all that often but it's there for when you do and the attention to detail goes way beyond that the power window switches are even trimmed in the exterior color a lot of new cars offer like exterior colored stitching inside power window switch trim that is the level of attention to detail that bugatti is on and check this out open up the glove box and you have the exterior color brought into the interior even there again a space you'll never use you'll probably fill it you won't even see the exterior color but no space in this car was not beautifully thought about and perfectly thought through to make it as perfect and detailed as possible with that said even in the interior of a bugatti there are some drawbacks and in this case to me the biggest one is the fact that it has manual seats or at least manual forward or backward you have to lift a little lever in front and then slide your weight forward or backward to move the seats around now bugatti would tell you they did this because it's this high performance handling version of the shiron and they saved weight by removing the power seat but this car has a power backrest and a power seat bottom to go up and down it just doesn't have a power forward or backward movement so the seat motors are all still there they haven't really saved any weight it's just a gimmick so people can tell their passengers oh this has manual seats because it's the track focused handling version so we've saved weight from your luxury model it's such a ridiculous gimmick i mean come on this has heated seats if you have heated seats you're not really that focused on weight savings you can cut the act and put the power seats back in and speaking of the seats this car has child seat anchors you can see behind the passenger seat this little panel presumably lifts off and you can anchor a child seat here so you can take a child in your bugatti chiron but you don't have power seats kind of stupid and next up moving outside the shiron pure sport where this car has some more obvious changes compared to the regular shiron in addition to the ones inside probably the most obvious is this wing this large fixed wing back here the regular shiron also has a wing but it's adjustable it goes up or down when the car meets certain conditions but this wing on the pure sport is fixed in place and it is huge massive in fact spanning the entire width of the car obviously intending to provide more downforce again for better handling and track capabilities and there's more to it than that in the back you can see a completely different exhaust outlet compared to the regular shiron that's because the pure sport has a 3d printed aluminum exhaust it looks more aggressive and it sounds more aggressive too take a listen to this car revving and next up another change to the pure sport of the regular she road is the wheels you can see the spokes have little holes in them bugatti calls these arrow blades and they are designed to channel air in a particular direction again to improve downforce you have your little arrow blades and the wheels a very interesting and unusual design you wouldn't see it unless you look closely but they're there and very unusual you don't see too many holes in the wheel spokes of very many vehicles now speaking of the wheels i want to talk tires this car uses michelin pilot sport cup 2r tires that were co-developed with michelin specifically for this car they are very grippy and they are again intended to improve handling by having grippier tires than the standard chiron and finally one other notable handling related change made to the shiron puresport over the regular shiron this car has stiffer suspension than the regular shiron sportier more aggressive suspension now the result is the ride quality probably isn't quite as good but stiffer suspension makes generally for better handling and so they've done it for this car this is the enthusiast spec of the bugatti chiron and next up we move on to the rest of the extra items with this car starting up front with this very aggressive front end design you can see the traditional bugatti grill but around that you have giant air intakes and a much more aggressive carbon fiber front splitter than the standard shirone again to underscore that this is the more aggressive track focused model but this car in front does carry over one thing i love from the shiro and that would be the headlights when they are on you can see the running lights are these four squares on each side tremendously distinctive and when you put on the turn signal you have these little turn signal lights underlining each one of the four squares again tremendously distinctive i love that look up front when this car is on but i especially love what happens with these lights when you walk up to the car and unlock it you tap the unlock button and you can see the lights put on a little show as they light up to illuminate and let you know that it's your car and i like that little welcome lighting design a lot of automakers are doing this but this is one of my favorite welcomes to the car and next up moving on to the back of the pier sport very distinctive back here too not just because of the wing and the giant exhaust but frankly the entire rear end again far more aggressive than the standard chiron in the case of this rear diffuser tons of carbon fiber back here very very obviously more aggressive than the regular car and a very distinctive look now you do have an interesting lighting design back here you have a giant light bar thin strip that goes across the entire rear of the car and you also have some rather strange looking tail lights they have this sort of aero design to them you can see when the rear turn signal is on how they sort of light up it's an interesting look for sure and again very bugatti nobody else is using anything even close to this look and next up moving to another interesting quirk of the shiron it doesn't really tell you what it is on the outside you do have some bugatti logos front rear on the wheels that sort of thing but it doesn't really say shiron anywhere or pure sport except in two places one is this little door fuel door looking thing on the driver's side and the other is this little fuel door looking thing on the passenger side where in both cases it says shiron piersport but that is all so you might be wondering why two fuel doors what do those do well over on the passenger side you push it open and that's where you add fuel you pull up to a gas pump you put the gas in pretty simple just like basically every car on the driver's side that little fuel door thing is where you add oil you pop that open a little button inside the car and then you can put oil in the engine there in case it's running low now you might be wondering why do you put oil in to like a fuel door instead of around the engine like basically every other car and the reason for that is in this car you can't access the engine this rear cover doesn't come off except at the bugatti dealership where trained technicians can remove it instead it's fixed in place you can't pull it off you don't have access to the engine but you can see a little bit of the engine from the top and it is beautiful with bugatti logos reminding you exactly what this engine is this thing isn't screwing around i just love looking into this engine bay and seeing that massive 16 16-cylinder 1500 horsepower engine it is a serious piece of machinery now as you can see going over the engine bay is this line that sort of bisects it cuts it right in half that line starts on the roof of the car above the passenger compartment and it goes all the way to the back it's sort of a beauty line that traces the shape of the car as it goes further back and frankly i think it looks pretty cool and finally we move into the front compartment in this shiron pure sport this is the trunk the only real luggage space you get with this car and you can see it's pretty small and it's even smaller because there's this metal strip that sort of cuts it in half that's placed in the middle of it the reason they do this is for compliance purposes if the cargo area is large enough to fit like a small child then you have to install an emergency inside trunk release so the child could get out if they accidentally fall in or get kidnapped or whatever by putting this like blade thing in the center it splits up the cargo area into two smaller components neither of which mandate that they put in an interior trunk release most owners who actually want to use this luggage space can simply remove this after they buy the car but when they sell it new this has to be there or else the car isn't complying with the regulation about the interior latch very interesting and there are a few other interesting things about this cargo area for one you have a nice plaque in here that reminds you this is a limited edition one of 60 pure sport model that's cool to see you also have another label in here this time a warning label that lets you know the temperature inside this trunk may exceed 120 degrees fahrenheit or 50 celsius it's letting you know it could heat up in here so don't put anything that wouldn't do well with heat in your trunk because it might not go well maybe there'd be a fire just wants to let you know two other important items in here worth mentioning for one inside this little bugatti branded case this is where the battery charger is i mentioned before it comes in the bugatti box but in this case it's out and it's right here you also have a tire inflator kit in here over to the side sort of molded to the shape of the cargo area obviously this doesn't come with a spare tire so your tire inflator kit is all you get just in case you have a flat in your bugatti and you want to try to fix it by the side of the road unlikely and so those are the quirks and features of the bugatti chiron pure sport now it's time to get it out on the road and see how it drives all right driving the pure sport uh we're in a mass because i have someone with me from bugatti newport beach obviously i should not be trusted to drive a vehicle like this by myself it's terrifying you know getting in this car the first thing you think you just have intimidation you can't not um this is like the fifth or sixth bugatti i've reviewed on my channel but every time i still feel incredibly intimidated these are unbelievably valuable cars the good thing about this car though is it feels pretty drivable so as these cars go it is intimidating because the value is intimidating but unlike for instance the mclaren p1 gtr which i recently reviewed that car was intimidating from a driving perspective you felt like it might try to kill you this car is just intimidating from a value perspective because you can drive it pretty easily and pretty well i'm gonna step on it here oh my god there is there are a few cars on earth for the acceleration like that wow the road just comes at you so fast you just don't have time to react if there's like something in the room i mean it's just an unbelievable speed i've it's hard to describe it's funny because you drive a 458 and a lot of people watching these driven 911s or you know things like that and you think they're fast and they are those are fast cars but there's like a whole other level of speed when you spend this much and when you get into this level of rarefication with a car that just it takes it into a completely different world i mean you can just feel your eyes going back in your head you're just it's like nothing i've ever experienced before acceleration like this and this car delivers it very well you know a lot of the really really fast exotic sports cars i drive the koenigseggs the p1 gtr they're pretty rough and to an extent that's kind of a cool thing you feel it you hear it it's all coming at you this car though is a lot more and it's one of the things i've always loved about this car it's a lot more bentley-like it's a lot more luxurious you get the amazing acceleration of the craziest car on the planet but it's it's relatively comfortable and easy while you do it and if you want to just sit here and go 40 you can do that too i am just amazed by the performance of this car but i am also amazed by the comfortability you can definitely tell it's harsher in here though than in a regular shiron the ride quality is definitely a little rougher with the intent obviously better handling that's the whole point of this car and you can tell the suspension has been firmed up to make that possible there's nothing comparable that i can even explain the acceleration feels like it's like nothing on the planet it's unbelievable it's so much faster than any of the fastest roller coasters i've ever been on maybe rocket ships feel like this i just cannot believe how fast this car feels when you accelerate hard and i also can't believe how then like docile it feels if you just want to drive normally it definitely does feel like it handles better um than the shiron you can tell it's surprising they haven't lost that much weight but there's enough little tuning in various different areas suspension and tires that you can tell it has a little bit more of an immediate feel to it a little bit more of a sports car feel frankly it's indescribable it is so fast and it feels so effortless it's so fast that i mean even two seconds on the throttle you're already way way too fast in any reasonable life situation and the road is now coming at you at a speed that is too quick for you to even react to it and so you have to have a big wide open space and even then a lot of courage for you to be able to really get on it what an unbelievable thing it is so cool and i still love the fact that they're able to make it so luxurious and feels so nice in here i totally think you could daily drive this if you were willing to stomach the maintenance and running costs um it's just one of the best all-around cars and i do think that this one has a little bit more of a kind of sport anger to it uh as it bugatti suggests it does with the name pure sport and with all the changes they've made to make it more handling focused and so that's the bugatti chiron pure sport this car shares a lot with the regular shiron and frankly with the bugatti devo but that's fine with me because those are two of the most amazing cars i've ever driven and so is this one beautiful car unbelievable craftsmanship fantastic technology amazing performance and now it's time to give the pure sport a doug score starting with the weekend categories and styling the pure sport is obviously a gorgeous car not perfect but very lovely and it gets a 9 out of 10. acceleration is insane and it gets a 10 out of 10. handling is strong but like other bugatti's not quite on the level of precision and amazement as some other insane hyper cars and it gets a 9 out of 10. fun factor is as good as it gets 10 out of 10 and obviously the same with cool factor these are insanely cool and head turning and it gets a 10 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 48 out of 50. next up are the daily categories and features this car has some great stuff though not all the top modern tech no surprise and it gets a 6 out of 10. comfort is excellent for a car like this and it gets a 5 out of 10. quality is fantastic for a supercar but reliability is a bit of a question and it gets a 7 out of 10. practicality is low not only is it only 2 seats and very small in a cargo area but it's so expensive it's just hard to practically drive it anywhere and it gets a one out of ten finally value and it's insanely expensive but it's also one of the great performance cars of all time and it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 25 out of 50. added up in the doug score is 73 out of 100 which places it here against rival hyper cars i've tested truthfully i don't see much difference here between this the regular shiron and the devo they're all great but they're all very similar the pure sport seems like it's essentially devo handling and driving experience with shiron's styling and frankly that might be the best of all worlds you

Channel: Doug DeMuro

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Length: 31min 5sec (1865 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/pryan886]

The “highway” mode on the red Bugatti dial is the Autobahn symbol. I’m would guess this has something to do with putting it in a configuration for ultra high speed cruising.

[u/a_case_of_everything]

*Obviously not in the market* Still, Alcantara everything reminds me of looking at a house with carpet in the bathroom and kitchen.

[u/pryan886]

Is this Doug’s FIFTH Bugatti review? I know these are all special cars, but is a Grand Sport THAT different than a “regular” Veyron? Is the Pur Sport THAT different than a “normal” Chiron. For lesser cars I would expect these special versions to end up on the More Doug channel, but I’m sure that any Bugatti video on YouTube is going to get a ton of views. Don’t get me wrong, I’m gonna watch the whole thing. And this car is gorgeous (especially in that color), but how many Bugatti videos can one guy make?

[u/RudyGiulianisFart]

3.6 million dollar car

3.6 dollar outfit

Time to make a video

[u/willpc14]

I'm irrationally bothered by the up/down function on the gear shifter being backwards

[u/Sagan_kerman]

I think it’s time to shed a layer of shirt Doug, looking a bit sweaty there

[u/Interpol1670]

Love Doug and his videos, but I'm so bored by modern hypercars. I don't know why exactly, most of them just do nothing for me anymore. 🤷‍♂️

[u/Littlevil]

Wow those wheels look enormous

[u/dbmonkey]

Fun fact: the quickest roller coasters are actually much much quicker than the quickest cars. Car and driver brought their VBOX on the quickest one and logged these results:

[The rollercoaster's] acceleration is crushing: well over 2 g at launch and an average of 1.6 g over the entire 0-to-120-mph run. A Bugatti Veyron, by comparison, averages a mere 0.7 g over that speed range. In the Top Thrill Dragster, 0 to 60 mph happens in 1.2 seconds, and 0 to 120 mph in 2.8.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15129299/just-how-quick-are-roller-coasters-feature/#:~:text=In%20the%20Top%20Thrill%20Dragster,degree%20plunge%20back%20to%20earth.