The Last Bugatti Bolide Hypercar Was Just Unveiled

The Bugatti Bolide was first unveiled in 2020 and has been racking up admirers and hopeful buyers with deep pockets ever since. The Bolide was also limited; when production of the track-only car finally began last year, the marque said it would only make 40 of them, with the last one recently unveiled in Molsheim.

The final Bolide’s unidentified owner also owns a Type 35, one of the winningest race cars ever made. The Type 35 and its colors were used as an inspiration for the Bolide, and for this car in particular. That includes the livery, which is a mix of colors called “Black Blue” and “Special Blue Lyonnais.” Blue is in the interior as well in the form of Alcantara, colored in a shade called “Lake Blue.” The stitching is a shade called “Light Blue Sport.”

Varying shades of blue for different applications throughout the car is, in fact, what a manufacturer like Bugatti is all about, and so are their customers.

“This color palette holds such significance for the valued customer that he also specified the same colorway for his Veyron Grand Sport—itself the final example produced,” Bugatti said in a statement. “The last Bolide therefore completes a trilogy that spans decades.”

Under the hood of the final Bolide is a W-16 engine making 1,578 horsepower, mated to a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. The car can go from zero to 62 mph in 2.2 seconds. It took Bugatti several years of careful development to make the Bolide happen, from the unveiling in 2020 to the first track days with buyers earlier this year.

There, new owners warmed up in a Porsche 911 GT3 RS before taking their new Bolides out and putting them through their paces. Bugatti’s competitors in this realm include brands like Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray Special Vehicles, Pagani, and Ferrari, though Bugatti might do the best job of proving that what it does—hypercar craftsmanship—is the very pinnacle of the art.

“The idea of being a perfect track car for both gentlemen and professional drivers is not so easy to translate into driving attributes, but it’s essential to what makes it a Bugatti,” Emilio Scervo, Bugatti’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. What’s implied is that the car’s value will hold up in years to come, too.

Click here for more photos of the last Bugatti Bolide.

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