When it comes to auction stories, after a while, the gigantic numbers don’t land as hard as they once did – or as they still should. So let’s try to restore the full whump-in-the-duodenum feeling that this Bugatti Chiron Profilée’s price deserves.

Nine million, seven hundred and ninety two thousand, five hundred euros. Or, in non-continental currency, eight million, seven hundred and nine thousand, six hundred and twenty-five pounds.

Honestly, we probably still haven’t done the price of this one-off Bug justice, so let’s examine the car that our prosperous purchaser managed to procure.

Well, it’s a Chiron, obviously. And, in the great Bugatti tradition, it’s yet another special edition. Because owning what’s arguably the apotheosis of automobiles is somehow not special enough.

But then this special edition is also a bit of a special case. See, Bugatti had planned a limited run of Chirons called the Profilée, which was to blend the harder edge and sharper focus of the Pur Sport with a bit more of the touring civility that, perhaps more than any other vehicle we can think of, modern Bugattis excel at. Well, they would, if their owners actually used a fraction of their potential instead of… nope, not getting into it again.

You may have noticed when we said Bugatti…