Bugatti has always been pushing the limits with cars like the Veyron and Chiron. Now, with the Molsheim-based hypercar maker entering into a joint venture with Croatian EV firm Rimac and forming a single entity – Bugatti-Rimac – is set to unveil its next groundbreaking hypercar.
With Maté Rimac becoming the new head honcho at Bugatti, many speculated that the next hypercar from the French firm could be all-electric. However, Mr. Rimac has spilled the beans in 2016 F1 champ Nico Rosberg’s latest Youtube video in which he picked up his very own 2,000 horsepower, fully-electric Rimac Nevera.
He said that the Chiron’s engine is “an amazing engine and the pinnacle of automotive engine development, but now the time has come to go to the next step”. The words which came as a sigh of relief to many petrolheads were – “The next step is not going to be electric… not all-electric.”
Hurrah, Bugatti’s not going all electric! And the juicy news doesn’t end there as Maté Rimac went on to elaborate that the Chiron’s successor will have a “very interesting combustion engine, and strongly electrified.”
After we’ve witnessed the might of hybrid powertrains in the Porsche 918 Spyder, McLaren P1 and Ferrari LaFerrari, we will be seeing it in a Bugatti as well.
Imagine a hybrid powertrain based on this w16. I think a new fastest car is on the horizon.
It will surely be awesome but we might not see the W16 as Rimac said “things are going in the opposite direction of what everybody expects”
Regardless of that, it will be LUDICROUS