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Andrew J. Hawkins

Andrew J. Hawkins

Transportation editor

Transportation editor

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    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Fancy car expensive.

    Bugatti set a new record when it sold its last purely gas-powered supercar at a Paris auction Wednesday for more than $10 million. The first all-electric Bugatti won’t come until 2030, but until then, the brand intends to focus on hybrid powertrains. I picture this one-of-a-kind Bugatti Chiron Profilée spending the rest of its days in a fancy glass house, never to be driven, like Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

    Image: Buggati
    Andrew J. Hawkins
    Andrew J. Hawkins
    How many quirks and features can you buy with $37 million?

    Doug DeMuro, YouTube’s favorite car reviewer and our foremost expert on automotive quirks and features, is getting a significant cash injection from the Chernin Group. The investment group behind a number of online creators, including Barstool Sports, MeatEater, and Exploding Kittens, said it would invest $37 million in DeMuro’s Cars and Bids website, which under the deal will merge with his YouTube page to form one entity. Congrats to Doug — now buy yourself a fancy knee pillow to celebrate.

    Here’s our Decoder interview with Doug from 2021, where he describes how the business of being Doug Demuro actually works: