

- YouTuber Matt Armstrong is considering a Bugatti Chiron for his latest rebuild.
- The one-of-60 Pur Sport was totaled after crashing into a Japanese mini-truck.
- He learns that parts prices are obscene, including $93k for a grille surround.
Supercar restorer and YouTuber Mat Armstrong has built his reputation by taking crashed Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Rolls-Royces and bringing them back from the brink with equal parts nerve and know-how.
In an effort to outdo himself again, his latest video sees him jetting into Miami to inspect a wreck of one of just 60 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sports ever made. But Armstrong is shocked when he starts pricing up the parts he might need for the rebuild.
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The Bugatti in question belongs to Miami-based content creator Alex G (@fxalexg), who managed to crash it into the back of a tiny JDM mini-truck.
The Pur Sport, a more track-focused version of the Chiron with a fixed wing and even more brutal acceleration, originally cost $3.6 million when new and has appreciated since then, and the mini-truck had to have been worth less than $10,000.
In Miami Armstrong inspects the damage ahead of Alex G’s insurance company sending an assessor out, noting that the carbon chassis tub has suffered some minor damage that will probably mean it’s totaled.
But Armstrong reckons he can probably get the existing tub repaired so sets about tracking down some prices for parts that definitely will need replaced.
Parts Sticker Shocker
Having already rebuilt a stack of supercars and even chopped up up a perfectly good Rolls-Royce to resurrect a Mansory Wraith, Armstrong is used to the kind of parts prices that’ll make your eyes water. But even he’s taken aback when a contact in the UK reels off some numbers.
Headlights, he’s told, are €150,000 (about $174,000 at current exchange rates), as are the carbon fenders. One part of the carbon hood is €50,000 ($58,000) and a horseshoe grille surround will set him back a staggering €80,000 ($93,000), he’s told.
We’re guessing we don’t need to spell it out unless you’ve been raised on a diet of silver spoons and trust funds, but out here in the real world, those headlights alone cost more than an entire used Lamborghini Huracan, like this one that went for $155,000 earlier this year
Factor in all of the tiny bits of special carbon trim, plus the airbag/dashboard repairs and the bill to get the car back on the road is going to be huge even if Armstrong does all the work himself.
Still, he’s keen, until he hears that Bugatti has inspected the car, which as a result is totaled by the insurance company, and will not sell repair parts to anyone wanting to fix it. Bugatti wants to repair the car itself in France.
Game Over?
With that, the Pur Sport is headed for auction through Copart. Armstrong closes the video asking his viewers whether he should still go for it. Most of the comments tell him to give it a miss.
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It sounds like a world of financial pain and the whole reason his channel has blown past 5 million subs is because people want to see Armstrong rebuild the car himself, not send it to the pros.
Oh, and by the way, if you think those Chiron parts prices are crazy, so are Alex G’s finance payments. He claims he’s shelling out $70,000 per month to own the Pur Sport – and is still paying it even though the car has been crashed and can’t be used.
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