Bugatti Chiron

This is it: the final, 500th, definitely the last ever Bugatti Chiron

Bugatti’s last 1,479bhp rocketship rolls off the line. Farewell, ye mighty

Bugatti calls it a “vibrant piece of bespoke art”, which makes it a first seeing as you’d be hard pushed to find many Monets or Matisses that’d crack 300mph. Bugatti also calls it the 500th, which makes it… the last.

So au revoir to the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport L’Ultime: sounds like a fancy moisturiser, is an incredibly fancy 300mph rocketship. This final, 500th Chiron has just rolled off Molsheim’s production line resplendent in a unique livery that celebrates eight years of taking chunks out of the world’s speed records.

Indeed, it references the very first Chiron revealed back in 2016 by virtue of its ‘Atlantic Blue’ split with ‘French Racing Blue’ colour. It’s been reimagined for this L’Ultime, but this time wears a load of scalps (read: names of the Chiron’s life highlights).

So across the sides of this Super Sport you’ll see places like Geneva (its 2016 launch), Paul Ricard (testing), Ehra-Lessien (where it cracked 300mph), Chateau Saint Jean and Cape Canaveral (where customers cracked top speeds) and of course, Molsheim (home).

 
Bugatti Chiron Super Sport L-Ultime

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, 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 V16-engined hybrid Bugatti will be revealed on 20 June

Which means you’ve got two weeks to play the ‘what’ll it look like’ game

In a surprising move, a company that specialises in building high-performance cars has revealed it will release a new high-performance car on 20 June 2024.

Jokes. It’s the new Bugatti. Admittedly, ‘revealing that a car will be revealed’ isn’t groundbreaking, but we’re certain that whatever form the Chiron’s successor takes will indeed be lightly earth-shattering.

Not least because it’ll come bearing Bugatti’s latest combustion engine: a V16behemoth that sounds quite lovely indeed. This being 2024, the powertrain will be electrified, of course, which Bugatti says represents “a coming together of timeless mechanical craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology”.

Speaking of timeless, today we learn the design of the new Bugatti will be inspired in part by the Type 57 SC Atlantic, the Type 41 Royale and the Type 35 (pictured above).

 
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