See the Bugatti Chiron and Chiron Sport in Photos

A Bugatti may be a lot of things, but "accessible" isn't one of them. And that's the way it's supposed to be: exclusive and exotic. In fact freeing up the millions it takes to buy one may prove the least of the impediments to ownership.

Revealed at the Geneva auto show last year, the Chiron Sport (pictured above) packs the same 8.0-liter quad-turbo W-16 engine as the standard model, tuned to deliver the same 1500 horsepower, but with a suspension, torque-vectoring system, and aero package focused more toward handling, and 40 pounds cut from its still hefty two-plus-ton curb weight.

Chiron Sport production began at Bugatti's headquarters in Molsheim this past January. At this point, Bravo confirms, "We are currently assembling more Chiron Sport than Chiron."

The Chiron carries a sticker price of $2,998,000, or $3,260,000 for the Chiron Sport. And that's before options, on which Bugatti's elite clients typically spend some $350,000 on average, over and above the base price, added the automaker's North American marketing manager Cedric Davy.

The Bugatti Chiron is more than six times more expensive than the next-most-expensive car on this list. Yes, to confirm, it is still just a car with four wheels, two doors, two seats, and a steering wheel. But if the Chiron resembles the definition of a car, it is unlike any other one out there. Its quad-turbocharged W-16 engine and untouchable exclusivity put it at the top of the heap in terms of performance. A specially outfitted example even made history by breaking the 300-mph barrier recently. Is that worth more than $3 million to you?

When the Alsatian automaker rolled out the Chiron in 2016, it committed to building only 500 of them-slightly more than the 450 examples of the Veyron it replaced.

In the three years since, Bugatti has delivered more than 180 of those, sources confirmed to Car and Driver. Of those, 46 (about a quarter of total production so far) have gone to North American buyers. And the company's order books are filled with nearly three years' worth of production already spoken for.

"This means that less than 100 out of the 500 units are still available," revealed Bugatti communications director Tim Bravo. If you manage to secure one of those final build slots, then, you shouldn't expect your 16-cylinder hypercar to arrive at your doorstep before 2022, at the earliest. And you can expect to pay handsomely for the privilege.

Bugatti's Chiron is far and away the most expensive, exotic, and powerful machine on this roster. It follows the groundbreaking Veyron, the top-speed-famous hypercar whose quad-turbocharged W-16 engine the Chiron borrows (with modifications, of course). That massive engine sends 1500 horsepower to all four wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. There's a Sport version offered as well, with the same engine output but a more handling-focused setup. The Chiron will cost you a shade under $3 million, while the Chiron Sport goes for $3.26 million—either sum is enough to purchase one of every other vehicle listed here, which you might have to do, given the quickly disappearing build slots for the last 100 or so Chirons slated for production.