Bugatti on Friday revealed a handful of previously unseen design studies within the lead as much as a seminar in regards to the automaker’s history.
These design studies and other archival material will probably be presented to the general public November 8-9 on the National Automuseum in Dietzhölztal, Germany. The museum houses the Loh Collection, which features many historically significant Bugattis.
2014 Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo design study
The materials shed some light on the several design directions has Bugatti considered during its modern era under Volkswagen Group ownership, including unused ideas for a successor to the Veyron and possible additional model lines. In 2008, for instance, designers drew up a proposal for a modern Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic coupe, the crown jewel of Bugatti production cars. Just 4 were built between 1936 and 1938 and today they’re among the many few cars that may fetch eight figures at auction.
The fashionable Atlantic successor never happened, as Bugatti decided to follow up the Veyron supercar then in production with the Chiron. Some early design proposals for that supercar may also be presented on the seminar, as will an unused proposal for the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo concept from 2015 that served as a preview of the Chiron. It’s radically different from the actual concept, with separated fenders and more extensive aero.
2018 Bugatti Type 35 homage with designer Walter da Silva on the wheel
Bugatti also considered a contemporary tribute to the Type 35—one among the automaker’s most successful race cars—producing two takes on this concept in 2015 and 2018. One is a futuristic track automotive that appears a bit like a rough draft of the Bugatti Bolide, while the opposite is an open-wheel roadster that tries to graft the unique Type 35’s design onto more modern proportions.
Along with taking a look at the detours Bugatti took on the strategy to developing the Chiron, the seminar will take a look at the history of Bugatti from its founding by Ettore Bugatti, the 30-car collection amassed by Fritz Schlumpf that kept the automaker’s history alive, and Bugatti’s false restart under Italian businessman Romano Artioli within the Nineteen Nineties.
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