Bugatti’s CEO is giving supercar aficionados a preview listen of the upcoming Bugatti Tourbillon’s exhaust note.
Mate Rimac, founder and CEO of the Rimac Group, which includes Bugatti Automobiles and Rimac Automobili, posted a video in which a camouflaged version of the car has its motor revved and is then driven around a track.
Rimac’s caption says: “What a car … What a car! I don’t think we understand yet what we have built. This one will be for the history books.”
He further added that this is how the production car will sound.
“Hopefully we can keep it soft-limiter free,” he added.
Bugatti plans to build a total of 250 of these cars, each of which will be hand-assembled Bugatti Atelier in Molsheim, France.
The car is powered by a hybrid powertrain featuring an all-new naturally aspirated 8.3-litre V16 engine that can spin up to 9,000 rpm. The engine alone produces 1,000 hp (these are European horses, which translates to 986 hp by Canadian/North American standards).
Then there are three electric motors, two at the front and one at the rear, producing another 800 hp (789 hp in Canada).
In total, the car produces 1,800 European horses, or 1,775 hp by North American measurements.
The car is launching for the 2026 model year and the starting price is 3.8 million euros.
More information is available on the Bugatti website.
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