What If Bugatti Also Decided to Be the Master and Commander of the Off-Road World?

il y a 4 mois - 16 Janvier 2025, autoevolution
What If Bugatti Also Decided to Be the Master and Commander of the Off-Road World?
In a world that keeps tabs on how you show off even your bedtime slippers, it's pretty obvious that exotic automobiles are perfect for standing out in a crowd.

Definitely, Bugatti is considered by many the king of exotics – and naturally, there's no such thing as a standard Bugatti. You might see four examples dressed in orange and black – but only if they're 'The Fantastic Four,' aka Bugatti's record-breaking supercars. If you take one unit each – a Veyron 16.4 Super Sport World Record Edition, Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse World Record Edition, Chiron Super Sport 300+, and the W16 Mistral World Record Car, you would also notice that adding their 'ponies' sums up to 5,520 horsepower from their quad-turbo, 8.0-liter engines.

Even so, you wouldn't have access to them – because those four orange-black examples are part of the Singh Collection and belong to a single Indian customer. Soon, even more bespoke ideas will come to fruition, and Bugatti will start chasing another new record. According to the rumor mill, the roar of the 8.3-liter V16 engine from Cosworth is going to chase down a new target – 310 miles per hour, or 499 kilometers per hour. Maybe they'll even break into the 500s, who knows.

One thing is for sure – nothing is safe or sacred for Bugatti in terms of pure speed. After all, the new Bugatti Tourbillion isn't equipped with the Cosworth V16 and three electric motors for no reason, right? The plug-in hybrid powertrain now churns out no less than 1,775 horsepower, and after Bugatti wraps prototype testing and officially starts first customer deliveries, everyone will come asking, 'When's the next high-speed record attempt?' Alas, everything needs to happen on the smoothest of tarmacs.

But what if that wasn't the case? Over the years, Bugatti has touted the possibility of making other cars aside from two-door hypercars. As such, it is no wonder that members of the imaginative guild of digital car content creators dwelling across the parallel universes of vehicular CGI come back to the issue at hand and give us their two CGI cents on the matter. Just recently, this virtual artist, better known as SRK Designs on social media, has decided to trust his CGI instinct and come up with a dreamy Bugatti… on stilts!

More precisely, the pixel master imagines a fresh Bugatti inspired by the Veyron, Chiron, and Tourbillon – but also by dune racers, hence the black plastic cladding, the underbody protection, the cool squared wheel arches, the integrated side steps, as well as the massive ride height. The general concept keeps the two-door sports car profile that's become a part of the modern Bugatti design ethos – but we also notice off-road lights on the roof between the roof rails, aftermarket off-road wheels, and chunky all-terrain tires, among others. Cool, right?