He may have contacted them directly.
Look at the Sutan of Brunei. He didn't get his McLaren F1s and the Porsche Dauer 962 LM from a local importer, did he?

This post has been edited by VagueConcerns: May 19 2014, 12:06 PM

The Veyron is such a legendary car because it was designed pretty much by a maniac.
Unlike the GTR which is shaped according to the wind, the Veyron's shape could not change much (if at all) from what the chief wants it to be. Technically the shape is totally wrong for a 400+km/h car, but it "needs" to be that way for it to look right. It also needs to have all the luxuries that he wanted, and no matter how heavy the car gets it has to have EXCELLENT braking capability and handle better than anyone would expect. It needs to be planted even at 400 km/h that the driver is confident enough to look at their speedometre. Most other cars when reaching their top speed ti feel like they're breaking apart, but not so with the Veyron. You'd probably still be brave enough to let go of one hand from the wheel and turn on the CD player.

The GTR wasn't made with such strict orders. It doesn't have a diamond studded speedometer, you can't choose what stitching you want for the leather seats, you don't have millions of colour combinations, it doesn't have a 1000hp engine that meets the then current emissions regulations and noise.

This post has been edited by VagueConcerns: May 20 2014, 12:50 AM

Not as much as a truck as the Enzo starting up.
But the point is, relative to the GTR the Veyron is superior because that it is able to do what it' doing at all, despite common engineering sense saying that it shouldn't be able to. It's far too heavy to be able to corner and brake the way it does, it's not aerodynamically ideal enough to do 400+ with that much stability, and it broke the stereotype that a record breaker doesn't have to compromise luxury.

This post has been edited by VagueConcerns: May 20 2014, 10:34 AM

And they did it wonderfully.

Actually only the first ten Veyrons were sold by invitations. They've far too much ego and too big a reputation to look for buyers. It'll look too obvious that they're begging for buyers. That' why they produce so much editions and provide "test runs", to get everything off the line so they can start on a new one.