A screenshot of the embedded reel shows the Chiron nose-out from the curb. Screenshot: @onlyindade / Instagram (credited to @facethewriter)
One corner of a black Bugatti Chiron’s nose is caved in, and the car is sitting with its front wheels on a grass swale beside a large tree on a residential street. That much comes from a short reel the Instagram account @onlyindade posted on October 11, credited to user @facethewriter and captioned “That’s a BUGATTI” plus two emoji.
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The video was shot through the windshield and side window of a car rolling slowly past. The post doesn’t say when the crash happened, which street it’s on, who was driving or whether anyone was hurt. The account covers Miami-Dade County, but the clip itself doesn’t identify the location. As of Thursday we found no police statement and no local TV or newspaper report tied to it, and no patrol car, ambulance or fire truck appears in frame.
What the video shows
The Chiron is angled nose-out toward the road, with its rear tucked up against the swale and the tree trunk. The damage is concentrated on the front corner closest to the street: the bumper and the area around the headlights are pushed in and torn open. A door is standing open. The car has red brake calipers and a pale sweep along its flank, and there’s debris and a dark wet patch on the pavement under the nose.
The last several seconds switch to closer footage on rain-wet pavement, shot from the other side of the car. The camera pans from the rear wheel, which sits against the curb, along the flank to the front wheel and the horseshoe grille, where the bodywork beside the badge is broken open.
In the first clip, a man in khakis walks around the car looking at the front end while a handful of others stand nearby. Two more people across the street are filming it on their phones. The filming car’s dashboard screen reads 10:41, in daylight. Nothing in the clip shows the car moving, another vehicle involved, or whether any airbags went off.
Bugatti’s own launch release put the Chiron’s base price at €2.4 million net in 2016. That figure is before options and before the special editions that followed, and the release gives no U.S. price. The video doesn’t show enough to say which version this car is.
The parts that took the hit
The damaged corner holds the parts Bugatti spent the most words on in its 2016 Geneva press release. The horseshoe grille surround is a single part that averages no more than 1.5 mm thick. The “eight-eye” headlamps are full-LED projector units 90 mm tall, each with its own controller and carbon fiber trim. The grille behind the horseshoe is a lightweight aluminum structure, and the badge on top is made of 970 silver, 140 grams of it.
The bodywork around it is carbon fiber too. Bugatti says the Chiron’s outer skin is entirely carbon, finished with six layers of clear coat, so any replacement panel has to be refinished to match across that many layers.
Those are the visible parts. What decides whether this car is repaired or written off is underneath. The Chiron’s monocoque is “made entirely from carbon fibre,” per the same release, and Bugatti says it takes four weeks to produce one. A passing phone camera can’t show whether the impact reached the tub or stopped at the crash structures and bodywork ahead of it.
Who works on a Chiron
Bugatti doesn’t publish crash repair prices or a parts price list. Its filings with U.S. safety regulators do show who does the work and how few cars there are. In a 2024 recall over the seat belt warning chime, Bugatti told NHTSA that 156 Chirons from model years 2016 through 2023 were covered, and that the fix would be done by “Bugatti After Sales personnel and Bugatti franchised service partners.”
The company tracks those cars one build at a time. In 2023 it filed a recall covering exactly one vehicle, a 2023 Chiron Super Sport that left the factory on Chiron Sport wheels not validated for that model, because its IT system had no block preventing the swap. Bugatti replaced the wheels, tires, valves and sensors and took the old rims back.
Bugatti built 500 Chirons and marked the last one, “L’Ultime,” in 2024, hand-assembled in Molsheim. The factory also runs an in-house restoration and certification arm, La Maison Pur Sang, which recently turned one customer’s 20-year-old Veyron into a one-off anniversary car. Crashes aren’t limited to customer cars, either; a Tourbillon prototype got rear-ended.
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If a police agency wrote up this crash, Florida law keeps the parties’ personal details in that report confidential for 60 days after it’s filed, though a version without them is open to licensed broadcasters and qualifying newspapers right away (Fla. Stat. 316.066). Until one surfaces, the reel is the only record, and it starts after the car had already stopped.
If this Chiron’s tub turns out to be damaged, should it go back to Molsheim for a factory rebuild at whatever Bugatti charges, or be sold as salvage for an independent shop to fix?
Sources: @onlyindade Instagram reel (October 11, 2026); Bugatti press releases, “Geneva International Motor Show 2016: Bugatti Chiron” and “L’Ultime: celebrating the end of the incomparable Chiron era”; NHTSA Part 573 Safety Recall Reports 24V-096 and 23V-388; Florida Statutes s. 316.066.
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