The revival of Bugatti is one of the most remarkable automotive stories of the 21st century. Noble, artistic and more than a little complicated, Bugatti was a pre-war marque specializing in luxury, design and motorsport, creators of Grand Prix winning cars and arguably the most lavish car ever made, at the beginning the 1930s Royal Type 41. Then it fades away.
It was Ferdinand Piëch, the tyrannical boss of the Volkswagen Group, who bought the rights to the name and returned the brand to glory with the 2005 Veyron and its successor, the Chiron. The latter Super Sport version remains the fastest production car in the world, reaching a top speed of 304.773 mph in the hands of racing driver Andy Wallace at a test track in Germany in 2019.
How do you follow that—especially in a world of 2,000 horsepower electricity supercar Has there been a complete realignment of expectations?
As fate would have it, Bugatti is now controlled by electric vehicle powerhouse Croatia Rimacis the result of one Complex contra agreement 2021 with VW and Porsche. So you’re right to wonder what kind of musical encore Mate Rimac will come up with for the 114-year-old French legend.
The result is the Tourbillon, a powerful hybrid supercar that finds Bugatti looking ahead a hundred years as well as recalling its storied past—but not in the way you might expect.
“Symbols like Model 57SC Atlanticfamous as the most beautiful car in the world, Type 35the most successful racing car ever, and Royal Type 41, one of the most ambitious luxury cars of all time, provides three core inspirations for us,” Rimac said. “Beauty, performance and luxury formed the blueprint for the Tourbillon; a car more elegant, more emotional and more luxurious than anything before it. And like the symbols of the past, it will not only be for the present, or even for the future, but also pour l’eternité-for Eternity.”
Yep, it’s safe to say that Bugatti is pretty excited about its new creation and has its eyes on the pristine lawns of Pebble Beach or the Villa d’Este conference events a century later, positioning the super My new car is both high tech and great tech. as an artistic response to inherent obsolescence.
Reskinning Rimac is brilliant and completely electric Nevera supercar certainly an option, but Rimac respected Bugatti’s history enough to know it would never fly. “So I came up with a proposal to build a completely new car,” he said. He has come a long way since becoming the sole employee of Rimac back in 2009.
Tools of success
The name Tourbillon will be familiar to followers of high-end watches. Instead of honoring a former Bugatti racing driver—like Pierre Veyron and Louis Chiron—the new car features the most complex mechanism in watchmaking, a wrist watch whose complexity resists the effects of gravity to maintain the most accurate timekeeping possible.
Bugatti’s designers and engineers were captivated by the idea of timeless mechanics when they conceived the new car, and so the Tourbillon largely rejected the large digital touchscreen in the interior of the car. it’s replaced by machined parts and a completely analog skeletonized instrument cluster (another watch-world reference)—though a small display slides into view if you want , for Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
The assembly consists of more than 600 parts, uses titanium, sapphire and rubies in its structure and remains fixed in place allowing steering wheel control. revolve around it. Two needles on the central clock face display engine rpm and speed. On the left are similar indicators of battery and oil temperature; On the right side there is a display showing the power taken from the electric motor and motor.
