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These wild Bugatti SUV concepts are the perfect fusion of sporty luxury and rugged utility

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In Greek mythology, ‘Chiron’ was the name of a wise centaur – a half-human, half-beast entity. These Bugatti Chiron SUV concepts are pretty much the same thing – they’re half sleek Bugatti supercars, half otherworldly Mad Max-style monster vehicles. Generated by AI artist Flybyartist, these customized Bugatti Chirons aren’t meant for garages… they’re meant to brave zombie apocalypses, endure the elements, and get you from A to B regardless of what’s in between. In style, of course!

Designer: Flybyartist via Midjourney

These images were created in Midjourney, proving that AI has an absolutely wicked imagination, and that if Bugatti were to ever venture into SUV territory (or if someone were enthusiastic enough to modify a Chiron), the results would be thrilling. These images scream Mad Max a little too loudly, but then again, you don’t see me complaining. If the 2019 Chiron Super Sport 300+ was the fastest car on land, these Chiron Utility Vehicles would be the fastest car on sand.

Each concept has the characteristics of a Chiron, with those super-sleek headlights, the C-shaped pillar, and a semblance of that horseshoe cutout grille on the front. However, the Chiron’s audacity gets amped up with those angular panels, aggressive air-intakes on the front, and conquer-everything tires. The ground clearance gets a bump too, given the need to be able to drive comfortably on rough terrain, and in a few concepts, you’ve also got the hint of a truck bed at the back. Finally, a few fog lights on top of the roof give the Chiron its off-road persona, and that black-and-red paint job ensures the Chiron blends right into its sandy home, while also screaming for attention when it’s hurtling towards you at those high speeds that only the quad-turbocharged W16 engine is capable of!

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Someone turned the Bugatti Chiron into a 4×4 off-roader and it feels like Mad Max meets Cyberpunk

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If you’re looking at this 4×4 Bugatti Chiron Terracross concept and going “something doesn’t feel right here”, it’s completely intentional. The Chiron, a beast made for perfect roads and luxurious metropolises, set against a rugged terrain with those massive tires just feels unnatural… but there’s a beauty in its unnatural design. Created by Rafał Czaniecki as a mere pandemic project, the Bugatti Chiron Terracross concept is a dystopian beauty made for a world where futuristic cybercities and wastelands coexist.

Off the bat, the Terracross isn’t your average Chiron. It comes with a few upgrades that are more than apparent when you look at the automobile. Right off the bat, you’ll notice its outlandish wheels and suspension, which make sense given its all-terrain nature, but create a ground-clearance that’s completely unusual for a Bugatti. The headlight and taillights are altered too, with a honeycomb-ish pattern that’s also found on the car’s exhausts, the wheel design, as well as on the large, outward-extending fenders. Among other noteworthy upgrades are the massive bumper guards on the front and back of the car, along with foglights on the top, space for a carry-case, and a place to mount your step knee.

The Terracross is a complete deviation from Bugatti’s luxury supercar DNA, while it still manages to retain the Bugatti elements like the horseshoe radiator and the C-shaped rear pillar. It’s an interesting experiment that I hope, for the sake of humanity, doesn’t become a norm – because a post-apocalyptic world where an all-terrain Chiron is a necessity isn’t really the kind of world I want to live in. That being said, Rafał Czaniecki’s pandemic pet-project surely yielded an extremely eye-catching car!

Designer: Rafał Czaniecki

Bugatti’s record-breaking speed run required special wheels and nerves of steel

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Speed kills. That had to be on the minds of Bugatti and Michelin engineers (and driver Andy Wallace), when together they pushed a modified Chiron to 304.77 miles an hour. As you would expect, driving a production car that fast involves more than jus...

The Bugatti Centodieci is a bold step away from Bugatti’s design DNA

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Over the past couple of years, and couple of cars, Bugatti’s built a rather strong visual language with its cars, ranging from the Veyron to the Chiron, Divo, and even the La Voiture Noire from last year… that’s until the surprise unveiling of their latest and boldest car ever, the Centodieci.

Unveiled to mark the company’s 110th year anniversary, the Centodieci is based on the Chiron, and is an incredibly limited-edition tribute to the EB110 from the 1990s. Limited to only 10 units, the Centodieci is a 1600 hp powerhouse with an 8-liter W16 engine and an acceleration of 0-62 miles in a staggering 2.4 seconds… all this while being 44 pounds lighter than the Chiron, owing to a heavy dependence on carbon-fiber components.

It isn’t the Centodieci’s performance (which is definitely worth writing home about) that really catches our eye here, but rather its design. Created as a tribute to the EB110, Bugatti’s first modern hypercar, the Centodieci is a very conscious deviation from the style Bugatti’s cultivated over the decades. Aside from the horseshoe-shaped grille on the front, there isn’t much that one would say is ‘innately Bugatti-esque’ about the car in the first place. The C-shaped pillar is so abstracted it’s barely there, and features an unusual cheese-grater detail on it (Are cheese-graters the new trend this year? What am I missing here?)

The car’s headlights still have the mean, discerning stare that you could see in the Chiron, but are a tad more devious and menacing. The car’s logo finds itself being placed on the hood too, instead of within the iconic horseshoe grille. The coupe comes with the absence of a traditional A-pillar too, as the windscreen sprawls all the way from the front across to the sides, providing a panoramic view for the driver and the passenger seated beside. The interiors are still under development, say the Centodieci’s design team, but will for most parts follow the design cues of the Chiron. Over all, the Centodieci, pretty consciously adopts a much more angular design language as a tribute to the Marcello Gandini-designed Bugatti EB110, as opposed to the organic styling of Bugatti’s design DNA developed over the Veyron, Chiron, Divo, and even the La Voiture Noire in the last few decades. The car, even as a matter of fact, chooses to be boldly different in its color too, making itself available exclusively in white!

Designer: Bugatti

Watch Bugatti test the first 3D-printed brake caliper

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Back at the start of 2018, Bugatti revealed that it was working on the first 3D-printed brake caliper. Now that the year is winding to a close, it's finally ready to show the caliper in action. Bugatti has posted a video (below) of a test that simula...

Lego Technik’s Bugatti Chiron is the ultimate toy for grown boys

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When cars and a universal, timeless toy intersect, it’s bound to be a marriage made in heaven. Lego Technik unveiled their life-size replica of the French hypercar, Bugatti Chiron. Not only is the resemblance spitting, but the car is also, completely, top-to-bottom (excluding the wheels and a few other parts) made from Lego!

Built from more than a million Lego pieces, the Chiron replica isn’t just a standing model. It actually drives too! Weighing over 3,000 pounds, the car can accelerate to slightly over 12 mph… which sounds even more impressive when you realize that the car’s engine is entirely made from Lego too! Two batteries in the car serve as its overall power source… and although there isn’t a gas or acceleration pedal (as the car is driven by voltage level), there is a working pedal for the brake. Check out the video above, as official Bugatti pilot Andy Wallace (the same pilot who test-drove the first Chiron) gives the Lego replica a spin… and expect goosebumps as the spoiler rises up from out of the car’s body, just like in the original Bugatti!

Designer: LEGO

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Bugattis’s car designs literally look like Pokémon evolution!

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A lot of design details and elements make the Divo look like a part of the Bugatti family, but stand it right beside the Veyron and Chiron, and it looks like the evolution cycle of a Pokémon, going all the way from cute and curvaceous, to edgy and dominating… however always looking a part of the family.

The Divo, French hypercar company Bugatti’s latest offering, was launched at the Pebble Beach Concours, an annual event that sees the launch of many automobiles and automotive concepts. Basing itself on the Chiron’s chassis, the car weighs lesser than its predecessor thanks to its completely new carbon fiber bodywork. It also packs the same 8-litre quad-turbo W16 engine as the Chiron, albeit capping off its top speed at just 236 mph as opposed to the Chiron’s 261 mph top speed. These details aside, the Divo (named after legendary French racecar driver Alberto Divo) comes with all the signature details of the Bugatti aesthetic family, but turns up the aggression a notch, making it look quite like an evolution of Bugatti’s designs, since its 1999 concept-tease Veyron.

Relying on the same horseshoe-magnet shaped grill on the front, blue-black color combo, and C-cut detail on the side, the Divo is every bit a Bugatti, but it comes with more beastly looking headlights, and a slightly more chiseled C-cut around the windows. In contrast to the Veyron (which was definitely ahead of its time at the end of the last millennium), the Divo definitely looks like a monster that musn’t be messed with, with more tight curves, giving it a sinewy appearance. In contrast with the Chiron, the Divo’s headlights make it feel less anthropomorphic (compared to Chiron’s steely glare) and more akin to an alien or monster.

Limited to just 40 units (reserved only for Chiron owners), the Divo comes with a rather expected $5.8 million price tag. What’s unexpected, however, is that all 40 units have already been sold at the time of writing this article!

Designer: Bugatti

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