Mat Armstrong rushes to Miami to save a $6,000,000 crashed Chiron, then Bugatti block him from rebuilding it

Popular car YouTuber Mat Armstrong rushed to Miami to save a $6 million crashed Chiron, but Bugatti says it’s done and won’t sell parts.

This $6 million Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport is the YouTuber’s biggest gamble yet, but it turns out that the only thing standing in the way of it is Bugatti itself.

Armstrong has rebuilt everything from BMWs to Lambos, but he’s never tackled a true hypercar like this one, and only 60 of these exist – well, 59 after one crashed.

With the car’s fate hanging on an insurance payout, the YouTuber booked a last-minute flight across the Atlantic- if he didn’t inspect it before the insurer sent it to auction, he might have lost the chance forever.

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Mat Armstrong rushes to Miami to save a $6M crashed Chiron

When the popular car YouTuber, Mat Armstrong, heard of a $6 million crashed Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport, he knew it was up to him to save it.

He is known for rebuilding everything from luxury cars like BMWs to supercars like Lamborghinis, but he’d never tried his hand at rebuilding a crashed hypercar.

Only 60 Pur Sports exist in the whole world, but after this one got crash-damaged, the world was down to a measly 59, so the YouTuber saw it as his goal to bring the hypercar back to life.

In true Armstrong fashion, chaos hit early. On the way to see the Bugatti, a Chevy cut across four lanes and slammed into a Ferrari driven by the crew.

The damage was fixable; it was roughly $4,000-5,000 in parts, but they chose a private repair to keep the Ferrari’s record clean.

It meant that when Mat and his team arrived at the workshop, two expensive – and very much crashed – cars were waiting for repair.

Bugatti says it’s done and has refused to help

The $6 million Chiron Pur Sport wore its scars very obviously.

Its airbags had deployed, the nose was crumpled, and there were scuffs on the carbon fibre elements. To make things worse, insurance quotes put the parts bill at an eye-watering $1.7 million.

He was looking at needing to replace the headlights, wing/fender, bonnet, and even the iconic horseshoe grille.

The Miami-based owner, Alex, was a 25-year-old millionaire and admitted that he’d only owned the car for two months before the crash, and was still paying roughly $86,000–$91,000 per month on it.

After a Bugatti technician flew in from Paris, France, to inspect the car, the verdict was brutal: It was a total write-off.

The Chiron was given a salvage title and sent to Copart auction. The worst part of it all was that Bugatti reportedly locked the VIN, meaning no dealership worldwide will sell parts for this car.

There’s only one way to bring it back – send it to France for a factory repair at Bugatti prices, which puts Mat in a very difficult position.

If there’s one man for the job, though, it’s Mat Armstrong.

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