• This Chiron wasn’t babied like most multimillion-dollar hypercars.
  • Some online doubted it, others said it looked absolutely real.
  • Likely the highest-mileage Bugatti, and still running strong.

Hypercars are usually treated like rolling investment portfolios, spending most of their lives tucked away in climate-controlled garages instead of racking up kilometers. Even in the rare cases where owners do drive them, no one expects them to rack up miles like a daily commuter. And yet, there’s a Bugatti Chiron out there with more mileage than your average old Toyota or Honda sedan.

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This particular Chiron recently caught the internet’s attention with a jaw-dropping odometer reading of 175,797 kilometers, or 109,235 miles. Some suspected the number was faked, while others applauded the mystery driver for actually putting the car’s quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 to work, all 1,479 horsepower of it.

Is This For Real?

After a bit of digging around, we found the now-famous Chiron on the Instagram profile of automotive photographer Alex Penfold, who spotted it at a supercar gathering in October 2025, sporting the exact same odometer reading. Finished in blue carbon with a saddle-colored interior, the car looked remarkably fresh, showing no obvious signs of wear despite the mileage.

Bugatti built the Chiron between 2016 and 2024, which means the oldest it could be is about ten years. So how did it rack up more than 17,000 kilometers, or roughly 10,600 miles, per year?

This Bugatti Chiron Has More Miles Than Your Grandpa’s Old Toyota Camry

Alex Penfold / Instagram

The explanation comes down to its role. This particular Chiron is reportedly a test and development car owned by Bugatti, which means it’s lived a very different life from the typical customer-owned example. Instead of quiet weekends in private garages, it’s been through endless durability testing, high-speed runs, validation cycles, and even media test drives.

In a way, it’s a rolling testament to how reliable the Chiron can be, though it’s worth remembering this one has been maintained under extreme factory care, with a level of attention no customer car is likely to receive. Even so, it represents the kind of durability that every model to leave Molsheim is engineered to deliver.

Maintenance Costs

Maintenance has been a hot topic in hypercar circles for years, often shrouded in vague horror stories. But in a recent video, Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac pushed back on the idea that Chiron servicing costs spiral into the absurd. That said, it’s not hard to imagine that maintaining a Chiron with this much mileage would cost as much as a brand-new supercar.

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Bugatti’s service plan requires a yearly inspection at minimum, with a more in-depth major service roughly every four years under the factory’s official program. For regular upkeep, the W16 needs a complete oil and fluid change every 14 months or 15,000 kilometers, whichever comes first. Thanks to the engine’s complexity, this is a labor-intensive process, requiring precise access and specialized tools.

This Bugatti Chiron Has More Miles Than Your Grandpa’s Old Toyota Camry
Bugatti used several Chiron prototypes for development purposes.

Tires are another recurring expense, although they’re less punishing than the Veyron’s famously high-priced rubber, which required full wheel replacements at set intervals. The Chiron’s carbon ceramic brakes also demand periodic attention, especially if the car has spent time at high speed or on track. It’s unclear whether this test unit has had a gearbox or engine rebuild, but either would push the costs into entirely different territory.

Given that this Chiron is part of Bugatti’s internal fleet, all that labor is in-house and the parts are covered by the company’s logistics network. And who knows, perhaps Mate Rimac will answer our Instagram message and offer a few more details about this Chiron’s well-traveled past.

Could This Be The Highest-Mileage Bugatti?

Back in 2014, former Bugatti president Wolfgang Dürheimer said that the average Bugatti customer owns 84 cars, three jets, and one yacht. While we don’t know how much the brand’s clientele has changed twelve years later, we’re sure that current Bugatti owners still have large garages, meaning they don’t drive each member of their collection that often – or that far.

Bugatti’s former president, Wolfgang Dürheimer, once famously said the average Bugatti customer owns 84 cars, three jets, and a yacht. That was back in 2014, but it’s probably fair to say not much has changed. With collections that massive, it’s no wonder most Bugattis spend their days parked, racking up only a few hundred miles a year.

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This Bugatti Chiron Has More Miles Than Your Grandpa’s Old Toyota Camry
Veyron development prototype (Photo Bugatti)

Based on that assumption, the Chiron pictured here is probably the highest-mileage example out there. The only one that might have topped it is a retired Veyron development prototype, though there’s no available data to confirm that.

Among customer-owned Bugattis, one of the highest-mileage examples is a rare Veyron Super Sport World Record Edition that’s racked up just over 37,000 km (23,000 miles) over the past 16 years. That number alone would be considered impressive by Bugatti standards, but the test Chiron has gone nearly six times farther.