Although Bugatti has been unveiling new Chiron-based models pretty frequently, we haven’t actually seen something truly new from the French automaker since 2016 -and even the Chiron was more of an evolution of the Veyron’s design language rather than a revolution.
Rain Prisk decided to shake things up by creating a render of a front-engine Bugatti coupe and it’s got us pretty interested. That horseshoe grille translates pretty well onto the different body shape and, of course, there’s a lot of history to a front-engine Bugatti.
Mind you, that engine bay doesn’t look big enough to hold an 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 engine, which Bugatti reportedly plans to hang onto for another decade.
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This might be just a flight of fancy, but it’s not ridiculous to ask what a new Bugatti might look like. After all, whispers of a a new model have long for quite some time.
“The brand is ready for the second car, but it’s not me to decide,” CEO Stephan Winkelmann said in 2019. He added that it would need to be “a real Bugatti in the segment, or create one.”
Winkelmann hinted that electrification, to one degree or another, was possible. In fact, it seems likely given Volkswagen’s electric push. Moreover, Bugatti was recently tied to Rimac through Porsche, which may set imaginations alight considering that the Croatian brand has recently unveiled the incredible (and ultra expensive) Nevera hypercar.
So, could the next Bugatti be a front-engined coupe? We wouldn’t really bet on it. It might very well be yet another hypercar, sitting below the Chiron, or (less likely) a four-door coupe. What it won’t be is an SUV, as Bugatti is adamant that it won’t build one despite practically all other high-end automakers going down that (lucrative) road.
Note: This is a rendering by Rain Prisk and is not related to or endorsed by Bugatti