It's probably hard to recall amongst the bemusing recent array of Bugatti specials but the first Legend Edition Veyron was launched at Pebble Beach last year. It was the "Jean-Pierre Wimille" and was followed by four similar delights including the
Jean Bugatti at Frankfurt
. Now the sixth Legend Edition has been confirmed for a debut next week: the Ettore Bugatti.
You can't see the similarities?
Like the other LEs, very few will be made (just three), the price is exceedingly high (2.35m euros) and the design is, well, distinctive. The Ettore Bugatti Bugatti is inspired by the Type 41 Royale with clear coated aluminium at the front and dark blue carbon everywhere else. But it's only the style that's similar, the Veyron hasn't suddenly become a 12.7-litre, 6.5m long, three-tonne saloon; that would be a special edition.
Beneath the aluminium and carbon the Ettore is a Grand Sport Vitesse. So 1,200hp, 1,106lb ft and 254mph. Even in a world that contains LaFerrari, P1 and 918 they are some silly numbers, even if the generation of them seems slightly old hat now.
The interior is brown. So brown. Bugatti is proud that both calf and cordovan leather is used inside and the length of the tanning process and how it's soft to touch and how there's more blue carbon and the dancing elephant... We expect it will take a while to notice anything but brown.
Anyway, the car will be on the lawns at Pebble Beach along with the five other Legend Editions. No doubt someone in a dubious blazer will snap one of the three up.