The long version

Bugatti built the Veyron to answer one question — how fast can a road car go — and every decision followed from that brief, including the insulation from the process that made the speed possible. Values sagged through the depreciation years as early buyers moved on, then climbed once the badge cemented itself as the car that restarted the horsepower war. What survived is mostly long-term holders rather than flippers: buyers who bought the headline, insured it properly, and let the mileage accumulate slowly in a climate-controlled bay.