5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE… BUGATTI MISTRAL

A handful of facts on the world’s fastest convertible in waiting

1 IT KEEPS THE W16 ALIVE This 8.0-litre, 16 cylinder, quad-turbo, 1,578bhp engine is already widely acknowledged to be one of the all-time greats. We’ll see it again in the track-only Bolide, but this will be its last outing in a road car. 2 IT’S INSPIRED BY THE 1934 TYPE 57 GRAND RAID Bugatti cites the 1934 Type 57 Grand Raid, as bodied by Swiss-French coachbuilder Gangloff, as the ‘muse’ for the new car. It debuts in a duotone black with truffle brown paint treatment enlivened by yellow accents, Ettore Bugatti’s preferred colour scheme. 3 IT’S COMPLETELY BESPOKE The Mistral goes a lot further than the Veyron Grand Sport, the last ‘open’ Bugatti. Its design and engineering are completely bespoke, and the body has been extensively reworked. It draws freely on elements from…

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