'World's poorest Bugatti owner' reveals the true cost of owning a Veyron Grand Sport beyond buying it

Owning a Veyron Grand Sport, according to YouTuber Ed Bolian, comes with Bugatti running costs that could terrify even the most committed supercar addict.

But before he ever stressed about oil changes that cost more than a used Corolla, he first had to acquire the car.

This journey alone was filled with accidental purchases, outrageous flips, and financial decisions that only Ed could describe as ‘perfectly reasonable’.

While he did end up holding the keys to one of the rarest hypercars on the planet, he remains humble, calling himself the ‘world’s poorest Bugatti owner’.

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The journey to getting the Veyron Grand Sport wasn’t easy

Ed’s path to Veyron ownership didn’t start with deep pockets.

Instead, it started with an unusual willingness to buy extremely ambitious supercars with extremely little money down.

Years ago, he purchased a manual Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 for $215,000 with zero down, then sold it two years later for $350,000.

That profit helped fund an even stranger purchase: what he proudly calls the ‘worst Murciélago on earth’.

It was a wrecked, stolen, drunk-teenager-crashed disaster he effectively got for free.

Achieving his dream car so early forced him to rethink his goals.

The next dream had to be bigger, wilder, and financially irresponsible.

Naturally, that meant chasing a Bugatti.

Over the years, Ed hunted every distressed Veyron on the market, looking at repos, sketchy rebuilds, even saltwater cars.

After all, he couldn’t afford a pristine one, given that it would cost him.

His moment came when a uniquely storied Veyron Grand Sport surfaced well below market value.

A rare cluster of US Grand Sports hit the market at once, nuking prices by nearly a million dollars.

Ed negotiated relentlessly, structured creative trades involving everything from Ferraris to an SLR formerly owned by Paris Hilton, and slowly built enough equity for the deal to make sense (to him anyway).

An annual service will cost you $20,000

But buying a Bugatti is only the first financial shockwave.

Ed insists Veyrons are more usable and better engineered than other hypercars, but even he admits the Bugatti running costs sound like parody.

Here are the numbers straight from Ed.

An oil change will cost him between $3,000 to $4,000, which is already significantly lower than doing it directly at the Bugatti dealership.

An annual service will be closer to $20,000, but replacing the tires are the real killer, given that changing all four of them will set him back around $45,000, which is pretty wild.

While this is probably spare change for the average Bugatti owner, this is exorbitant for the self-proclaimed ‘world’s poorest Bugatti owner’.

This is perhaps why he once tried to put cheap Chinese wheels on his Bugatti Veyron, in order to save a few bucks.

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