The final model in the Bugatti Veyron Legend series will be named after the founder of the company Ettore Bugatti. This will the sixth model in this series and will be revealed this week durig the Monterey Car Show.
Honouring Ettore Bugatti, the founder and patron of the brand, it is based on the historical model Type 41 Royale. As with the five previous Legends, only three of the final Legends model will be produced, each costing a cool €2.35 million net. Bugatti is presenting all six Bugatti Legends together for the first and only time.
“Ettore Bugatti is our ‘patron’. His demand that an automobile be a perfect harmony of technology and aesthetics still applies to us today,” said Wolfgang Dürheimer, President of Bugatti Automobiles. “Ettore Bugatti always strived for the creation of a total work of art. His ideas and vehicles set the foundation stone for an automobile brand that was lauded then and now as the most valuable in the world. Ettore Bugatti himself is a legend. It was clear from the start that we should dedicate the final Legends model to him personally.”
The “Ettore Bugatti” Legend is based on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, as are all the other Legends. The super sports car is powered by a 1,200 PS, 8-litre W16 engine that transmits 1,500 Nm at 3,000 to 5,000 rpm to the tarmac and rockets it from zero to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds. With a maximum speed of 408.84 km/h (254 MPH) with the roof down, the Vitesse is the world’s fastest production roadster ever built.
The design of the carbon body is based on a 1932 Type 41 Royale with the chassis number 41111 and sports a “yin-yang” colour split. The front part is made of hand-polished aluminium and finished with a clear coating – a feature unique to Bugatti cars. For the first time, this material is used for the entire front and side panels, while the rear, sill panels and A-pillar trims are finished with dark-blue exposed carbon.
The polished, diamond-cut wheel rims were specially developed for this vehicle and colour-coordinated with a dark-blue finish. They are inspired by the eight-spoke wheel created by the company founder for his racing cars, like the famous Type 35 and thus bear the name “Ettore Bugatti.”
Other exterior details include the Bugatti horseshoe and the EB logo at the rear finished in platinum and the signature of the company’s founder engraved into the tank and oil cap and painted in silver.
Two types of leather have been used for the first time in the interior. Traditional calf’s leather features throughout the cabin, but parts that are typically touched by hand – including the steering wheel rim, gear lever, door handles, centre console armrest and door handle recesses – are covered in an exclusive, natural cordovan leather.
The tanning process alone for cordovan leather takes around six months. It is typically used for high-quality shoes and is particularly durable and sure to the touch.
The focal point of the interior is the platinum-coated dancing elephant, that is inset in the cover of the rear centre box and reminiscent of the hood ornament of the Type 41 Royale. The figure was originally sculpted by Ettore’s brother, Rembrandt.
The “Brun Cavalier” leather-clad insert in the centre console extension bears the “Les Légendes de Bugatti” nameplate and the relief of the dancing elephant while the door sills too, bear the portrait and signature of Ettore Bugatti.
Alongside the world premiere of the Ettore Bugatti Legend, for the first and only time, Bugatti will be presenting all six models of the Legends Edition on Friday, August 15 at “The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering” and also on Sunday, August 17 at the “Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance”.
Source – http://www.newcarnet.co.uk/Bugatti_news.html?id=13888
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