Against his old team, no less
Goodbye to the 8.0-liter W16
This is it-the last one. The Bugatti Bolide project was meant to showcase and celebrate that magnificent 8.0-liter W16 engine and give it a final hurrah. Well, this is the very last hurrah from a chorus of only 40
by Vijay Pattni
Sometimes expensive, deeply personal, and definitely not tacky
Follow Mate Rimac on Instagram and you'll see he spends plenty of time in hypercars old and new. Deep within his new 'Campus' factory, he wants to show us his garage.Inside we find his wife's VW Beetle Cabriolet and
by Ollie Kew
The car is named after Ettore’s favorite horse
Ettore Bugatti was way ahead of the assisted driving game. The Franco-Italian maestro's beloved horse, named 'Brouillard,' could open its own stable door. Imagine! It was fast, too. Just like the car that takes its name: Please welcome the one-
by Vijay Pattni
Developing 500kph tires and finding a venue will already be a struggle
On the day the Bugatti Mistral scorched to 453kph to become the fastest roadster on the planet, TopGear.com caught up with Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac to ask him about his latest world record, and what he wants to do next.Mate
by Ollie Kew
Customs just announced the failed bidding for the two seized hypercars
As many of us could have predicted, the Bureau of Customs' (BOC) public Bugatti auction was a bust, with no serious bidders putting in an intention to bid. Which is hardly surprising, given the difficulty of securing P30 million in cold hard
by Niky Tamayo
453.9kph in a car without a roof is no joke
Andy Wallace: Thanks! Actually I didn't choose the day and I dunno why you'd try and do it in November. During the runs there's little tiny bits of-I guess it's not rain-but it's moisture on
by Ollie Kew
It was the one-off ‘World Record Edition’ spec that made the run
Bugatti's 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 engine has added one more record to its mighty collection before it's retired: the open-top road car top speed.A Mistral in one-off 'World Record Edition' spec has just clocked an
by Ollie Kew
Got P300+M?
Remember the pair of Bugatti Chiron units that were seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) earlier this year? If you do and happen to interested in them, now's your chance.That's because the BOC is auctioning both cars in
Their CEOs all say no to racing
Why don't we see the makers of the world's fastest hypercars, Koenigsegg, Bugatti, Rimac, and Hennessey, go racing? Aston Martin is the latest manufacturer to head to Le Mans with the screaming Valkyrie AMR Pro, with Ferrari and Lamborghini joining
by Ollie Kew
CEOs Koenigsegg, Hennessey, and Rimac discuss the future of hypercars
Top Gear has once again assembled the biggest names in hypercars to drive fast rigs, and talk in-depth about some of the hottest issues in the industry. In the second edition of Boss Chat, CEOs Christian von Koenigsegg, John Hennessey, and
by Billy Caluag
It's still a work of art
Using basic TopGear.com engineering principles, building a hypercar appears to be extremely easy. Take one massive engine. Bolt it into a go kart. Fit some fancy dampers. A steering wheel. Some seats and a roof, and 480+kph, here we come.
by Vijay Pattni
A brilliant piece of design and engineering that lives up to its name
Behold, the new 1,775hp Bugatti Tourbillon-an all-new Chiron successor named after a (usually exposed) mechanism in silly-money watches that counters the negative effects of gravity. The name's a nod to Rimac's new obsession with skeletonized mechanical
by Jack Rix
An end of an era
By the time you read this, Bugatti had revealed its all-new V16 engine-powered hypercar, the Tourbillon. That also means the reign of the W16 is over.And what a reign it's been. The numbers from the unique 8.0-
by TopGear.com
Goodbye, dear friend
All-new Bugattis don't come around that often. When they do, though, they leave an impression that lasts long after the final unit has rolled out of Molsheim's factory floor.Frankly, it seems like only yesterday the Bugatti Chiron was
And in case you haven’t yet, you can have a listen
Hold the front page! In fact, hold the back page too. Hold all of the pages, because we've got our hands on a spy shot of Bugatti's next hypercar.Yep, this is your very first glimpse at the Chiron's
by Greg Potts
No, this isn’t a scale model—it’s an actual 1,200hp supercar
Bugatti built just around 450 Veyrons in total across the various editions during the model's 10-year production spell...so they're pretty rare. And yet, with cars of this nature, it seems that 'rare' doesn't cut the mustard for
There will be none like it
The rest of the world may be putting a leash on its designers, and simmering down their crazy concepts to be relatively tame when they do make production, but Bugatti does things differently. Welcome to the latest set of images for its
The Bugatti boots are apparently “engineered for speed”
Not content with building ultra-rare hypercars, Bugatti has now decided to team up with little-known German sportswear brand adidas to create some rare football boots. We promise we're not making this up.Called the adidas X Crazyfast Bugatti, they'
by Greg Potts
Literally a 440kph sketchpad
To be reductive, this is a gold Bugatti Chiron Super Sport bearing a few sketches on the side-a rare car made rarer still via a bespoke exterior treatment commissioned by its owner and realized via Bugatti. It's called the Bugatti
by Vijay Pattni
Which is faster down a runway?
When NASA decided it wanted space rockets to be reusable, it had to build somewhere to land them. That place was the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, and what it built was a 15,000ft-long strip (about 4.
by TopGear.com
