Since 2016, the Bugatti Chiron has remained an incomparable icon of hyper sports car performance. Limited to just 500 units, the final Chiron has now been hand-assembled by the craftspeople in Molsheim; a vibrant piece of bespoke art known as L’Ultime. This final farewell to Chiron marks the closing of an extraordinary era of performance that saw it become the first 1,500 PS roadgoing car as well as the first production car to surpass 300 mph. And just as it entered the world with spectacular elegance and power, so too does its production end, on the cusp of an all-new Bugatti era.
This final Chiron masterpiece - a
Super Sport - beautifully reinterprets the car that took center stage in
Geneva some eight years ago, exquisitely reminiscent in style and
visual identity. When it first wowed the world back in 2016, the color
split of ‘Atlantic Blue’ with ‘French Racing Blue’, intersected by a
sweeping C-line milled from hand-polished aluminum alloy, was unlike
anything seen in the automotive world before. For this 500th and final
Chiron, the Bugatti Sur Mesure team reimagined the original design with a
mesmerizing interplay of fading colors and a tribute to all the places
where the car has spread its magic since 2016.
Symbolizing the
brand’s prowess and the evolution of it's craft and savoir-faire in the
past eight years, the two colors that adorn this special Super Sport - a
distinctively created fading ‘French Racing Blue’ and an ‘Atlantic
Blue’ - now seamlessly blend with each other, merging to create an
arresting side-on visual that is accentuated by the colored wheels
mirroring the front and rear shades. A tailored blue Bugatti macaron,
exclusively designed and developed for this farewell edition, sits
proudly within the grille. In a spectacular flourish, adorning its
bodywork are hand-written places and events that helped to build the
legend of the Chiron. Inspired by the philosophy of 'bullet speed' - a
blurring of vision at high speeds - this unique Chiron Super Sport hints
at its incomparable top speed, even at a standstill.
The
aesthetic form of the Super Sport came to life when the Sur Mesure team
at Bugatti and the customer decided to create an homage to this
important moment in Bugatti’s history, retracing the most incredible
milestones of the Chiron as well as celebrating the most important
moments in the brand’s history, in-turn bringing to life the journey of
the Chiron model, from its debut in 2016 to the present day.
Since
its breathtaking global debut in Geneva eight years ago - revealed as
the most powerful, fastest and luxurious car in the world - the Chiron
has withstood the test of time, remaining at the pinnacle of automotive
craftsmanship and performance. Channeling the DNA of Bugatti and
encapsulating the brand’s ‘Form Follows Performance’ ethos, the Chiron
has pushed boundaries, set benchmarks that were previously unimaginable
and re-written so-called automotive norms across a critically-acclaimed
family line-up that includes the Chiron, Chiron Sport, Chiron Pur Sport
and Chiron Super Sport in additon to special editions like the Chiron
Super Sport 300+ and Les Légendes du Ciel.
This captivating
legacy flows across the sides of the unique Super Sport in pure content
composition: the launch in Geneva, appearances at Chantilly, testing
phases at the Paul Ricard circuit and the 300 mph run at the
Ehra-Lessien testing track. And, of course, the historic Bugatti home in
Molsheim as well as the iconic Château Saint Jean and Cape Canaveral,
where a number of customers have experienced the Chiron’s top speed
performance.
Celebrating the very last Chiron, the hand-written
number ‘500’ - gracing the exterior, the wheel caps and rear wing - is
also engraved onto the engine cover housing the magnificent Bugatti W16
powertrain. Simultaneously, it marks another milestone in the Bugatti
journey of more than 115 years; another 500 incomparable works of art,
inspired by Ettore Bugatti’s original vision, in the world to be enjoyed
for generations to come.
Forming an unwavering bond to the
wonderful artistry exhibited across the Super Sport is craftsmanship of
the highest order, exquisite details that bring the Chiron’s eight-year
timeline to life. The French flag, representing the birthplace of the
brand and the car, is fittingly applied to the mirror wings. The Super
Sport’s grille is finished in the brand’s now iconic ‘Atlantic Blue’ and
a special horseshoe mesh has been crafted with centered stripes.
The use of the ‘500’ seamlessly transitions from the outside to within, adorning a Chiron cabin that matches the bespoke nature of the car’s exterior. Here, a carbon fiber symphony unfolds for both the driver and passenger connecting the luxurious ‘Deep Blue’ leather and ‘Blue Carbon Matt’ high-tech finishes with hints of the iconic Bugatti ‘French Racing Blue’ shade. Intricate, hand-woven ‘Deep Blue’ leather that is hand-cut, hand-stitched and applied to each door panel offers this final Chiron the quintessence of excellence and timelessness, symbolizing peerless craftsmanship since the Chiron's unveiling in 2016.
