See What Goes Into Protecting The Paint Of The $5.8M Bugatti Divo

If you bought the first-ever example of a supercar that costs near to $6 million, chances are you'd stop at nothing to make sure that every square inch is as protected as it can be from wear and incidental damage. That's what the buyer of the world's first customer-deliveredBugatti Divodid, taking their precious super-high-performance track slayer straight to the detailingpros at Topaz Detailingin London for a detail and a complete paint protection treatment.

Applying a paint protection film of the sort used here is a painstaking process, requiring tons of labor and keen attention to detail.

The process starts with a full decontamination and detail to get rid of any dust, grit, bug matter, water spots, and whatever other fine contaminants might have clung to the paint. With such a new car, it's a pretty safe bet that there's very little foreign matter actually embedded in the paint, but this is no time for shortcuts; missing even the tiniest bit of dust can ruin the application of an entire sheet of protective film, and here, Topaz is using precise, cut-to-fit film sheets made to conform exactly to the Divo's complex body.

After those sheets are rolled into place on the car body, they're wetted, massaged into position, squeegeed to press them tightly onto the Divo's heavily sculpted body panels and remove any air bubbles, and finally, heated to lock them into place.