Bugatti revealed a handful of previous news on Friday invisible design studies before a seminar on the automaker’s history.
These design studies and other archival materials will be presented to the public on November 8-9 at 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 different design directions 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 example, the designers created a proposal for modern Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic coupethe crown jewel of Bugatti production cars. Only four were built between 1936 and 1938 and today they are among the few cars that can fetch eight figures at auction.
The modern successor to the Atlantic never happened, as Bugatti decided to continue the Veyron supercar then in production with the Chiron. Some initial design proposals for this supercar will also be presented at the seminar, as well as an unused proposal for the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo Concept from 2015 that served as a preview of the Chiron. It is radically different from the current concept, with separate fenders and more extensive aerodynamics.
Tribute to the 2018 Bugatti Type 35 with designer Walter da Silva at the wheel
Bugatti also considered it a modern homage to the o Type 35– one of the automaker’s most successful race cars – producing two versions of this idea in 2015 and 2018. One is a futuristic race car that looks a bit like a draft Bugatti Bolide, while the other is an open-wheel roadster which attempts to graft the original Type 35 design into more modern proportions.
In addition to analyzing the detours that Bugatti made on the way to developing the Chiron, the seminar will analyze the history of Bugatti since its founding by Ettore Bugatti the 30-car collection accumulated by Fritz Schlumpf that kept the automaker’s history alive, and Bugatti’s false restart under Italian businessman Romano Artioli in the 1990s.