Wednesday 15th July 2009

World Exclusive! Bugatti Four-Door Glimpsed

Seen a fuzzy tail-lamp image on other websites? Now PH reveals the entire backside of the brand new Bug!

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New Bugatti: All will be revealed at Frankfurt

Where do you go next once you've created the fastest, most exclusive production road car the world has ever seen?

The answer partly lies with this enigmatic teaser image that PistonHeads' spies have managed to get their hands on, and which forms the cover of an invitation to an event due to take place at the Frankfurt motor show in September.

Bugatti is celebrating its 100th anniversary at this year's Frankfurt show, so something big is to be expected, and this could be it.

The image - the clearest yet seen of the mystery Bugatti - reveals what could be anything from a traditional saloon to a fastback super-saloon to a full-on shooting brake-style estate. We're not quite clever enough to work that out, but the picture does reveal a Veyron-esque curve to the upper part of the boot line, and the vertical brake light is reminiscent of the twin air intakes that run along the roofline of the Veyron.

Otherwise, the new car is a real break from the norm, especially with the dramatic shape of the rear lights, and the eight exhausts which may imply the car shares the Veyron's W16 engine. Or perhaps not!

The new car is likely to appear at Frankfurt as a concept, but a production version is almost certain to share a large proportion of its underpinnings with the forthcoming Bentley Arnage successor, the new 'Grand Bentley', as they both form part of the VW Group stable.

Word reaching the ears of PH suggests that the new Bugatti could be called the 'Bordeaux' - though we rather hope its final name will be something a little more fitting of its exotic roots and likely price tag. A Bugatti Pétrus, perhaps...

[CY88]

8 tailpipes ! How silly.

[CY88]

posterboy said:

CY88 said:

8 tailpipes ! How silly.

Oh come on! You're not being serious that those eight little pipes fit in with the rest of the design statement going on in that picture? It may as well be wearing Audi rear mudflaps.

Edited by CY88 on Wednesday 15th July 12:13

[CY88]

Frankeh said:

CY88 said:

8 tailpipes ! How silly.

I feel this car is wasted on you :P

Okay. Let me explain my perhaps premature posting.

Take the Veyron ..



In addition to the nicely designed middle exit, it has AFAIK two large additional pipes, required to vent the quad turbo w16, hidden away in the rear venturi, barely visible.

I just thought that 8 round chrome tips was, well, a little lazy when compared to this. Each to their own though i guess.

[CY88]

A slightly more saloon shaped 4 door?

[CY88]

groomi said:

CY88 said:

A slightly more saloon shaped 4 door?

Just a two-tone Audi with a horse shoe on the front?

.... don't forget the 8 pipes up back