5 STUNNING BUGATTI CONCEPT CARS YOU’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE
Here are 5 awesome Concepts that were not able to make it to the production line
If you’ve been following the car news closely then you would have noticed that Porsche has been revealing a number of concepts that couldn’t be built. And this got me thinking – is there any other car brand who has got some cool concepts hiding that could never be built? So, I started searching the internet and found not one or two, but FIVE stunning Bugatti concepts that could never be built. Let’s take a look at them.
W16 GT REMBRANDT
This is one of the coolest concepts we’ve ever seen. Featuring a 8.0-litre, quadturbocharged W16 engine sitting in the front of the car, the Rembrandt was going to be a “‘Gentleman’s Express’’ boasting nearly 1500 horsepower. The W16 GT Rembrandt was deemed to be too expensive to built, with the price of the Grand Tourer going to as high as £50million.
Bugatti though has used hints from the design of this car in the Divo and the £12million LaVoiture Noire. Had it been built, the ‘Rembrandt’ would have been the ultimate continent crusher.
The EB218
While Bugatti is famous for making mind-blowing hypercars, in 1998 when Volkswagen bought the Molsheim-carmaker, Bugatti came up with this: the EB218 concept.
Built with the help of Italdesign, this four-door coupe was going to be powered by a W18 unit. 18-inch alloys made from magnesium, four-wheel drive and multilink suspension were some other cool features of the EB218. The interior of the car was also very good-looking.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t deemed to be the car that would cement Bugatti’s name into the hypercar world, and hence the idea to build the EB218 was scrapped.
The Modern Atlantic
What you see here is a show car from 2015 Pebble Beach event that could have been the perfect successor to the 1936 Type 57 Atlantic. Bugatti were spoilt for choice with this one. They couldn’t decide whether to put a twin-turbo V8 or an electric drivetrain into this beauty. The interior looked plush and resembles with the inside of the Chiron. Those lovely doors further added to the beauty of the car.
The Galibier
The Galibier was yet another four-door saloon. It was rumoured that the Galibier would be the Veyron’s replacement. The luxury hypercar had a 8.0 L twin-supercharged Volkswagen W16 mated to an 8-speed automatic gearbox. So why didn’t Bugatti build this?
Achim Anscheidt, Bugatti’s chief stylist, told Hagerty, “The company tried to reimagine the Galibier project as an automotive jack of all trades, and it ended up sacricing grace andthe proportional commitment to the original idea. The show car’s original focus of making a sporty, elegantly-tailored sedan got lost in the patchwork of overly ambitious and convicting Excel sheet demands. Viewed from the side, the car looked like a dachshund. From the back, it was like looking at a bowler hat on wheels.”
As a result, Bugatti thought that VW won’t like the Galibier and axed the hypercar.
Veyron Barchetta
Back in 2008, when we were in awe of the Pagani Zonda R and Audi R8 V10, the lovely people at Molsheim built this – the Veyron Barchetta. Yup, while this concept might resemble a 2020 Bugatti Divo, this concept was going to be a ‘Veyron’ speedster in 2008.
The designers had the freedom to go bonkers and make the most outrageous roadster one had ever seen.
Due to internal politics, we were never able to see the Veyron Barchetta. Later, Bugatti got its new CEO in Stephan Winkelmann – a man who loves these kinds of cars and so it is no surprise that we’ve been able to see the design hints from this concept in current Bugatti hypercars.
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