Bugatti Is Building A Lightweight, £4.4 Million Track Hypercar

Bugatti is honouring one of its race-winning drivers from the late 1920s with a new ultra-high-performance track-biased car
Bugatti Is Building A Lightweight, £4.4 Million Track Hypercar

Bugatti has just announced a new project that marks a massive shift away from the record-breaking heavyweights in the Veyron and Chiron lines. Bugatti is going lightweight and high-downforce.

The brand is building an all-new lightweight circuit special called the Divo, after French racing driver Albert Divo, who won the Targa Florio for Bugatti twice in the late 1920s. The car will, says Bugatti, be based on the requirements such a race needs, prioritising “outstanding handling properties” and “enormous downforce and g-forces.”

Albert Divo at the wheel of the Bugatti Type 35 with which he won the 1929 Targa Florio
Albert Divo at the wheel of the Bugatti Type 35 with which he won the 1929…

All we have to go on at this stage is this teaser image and the hints in the press release. Bugatti President Stephan Winkelmann, formerly of Audi Sport and Lamborghini, said:

“Happiness is not around the corner. It is the corner. The Divo is made for corners. With the Divo, we want to thrill people throughout the world.

“With this project, the Bugatti team has an opportunity to interpret the brand DNA in terms of agile, nimble handling in a significantly more performance-oriented way.”

Well, that’s got our underwear all aflutter. The Divo’s price is set at €5 million (£4.4 million) before taxes (and customisation), and just 40 will be made. The official reveal, where we’ll learn everything else that there is to know about what is nailed-on to be an incredible new machine, is scheduled for 24 August. We can’t wait.

Comments

Burnout🔰(Rotary Fighter)(SaveCT)

Mclaren Senna rival?

07/10/2018 - 09:36 |
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Senna GTR rival, since some sources say it will be track only

07/10/2018 - 09:44 |
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Anonymous

light weight???

07/10/2018 - 09:40 |
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Jakob

I always wondered how quick the Bugatti Chiron and Veyron would be if they left out all the luxury equipment.

07/10/2018 - 09:41 |
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Tomislav Celić

We need more track only hypercars (or Megacars in this case). They don’t care about some wierd pedestrian safety rules, or about some tyre limitation set by some FIA… They don’t care about anything. They will spit in your face, and say “I don’t care about you”. And that’s what makes a Supercar/Hypercar/Megacar different from a sports car.

07/10/2018 - 09:44 |
24 | 0

True but the problem is

Owners aren’t gonna be able to drive around town and showoff with them and unless that super rare occasion of tracking it(probably due to some special occasion) these cars are only gonna stay in those damn temperature controlled garages never properly being driven

At least if you’re showing it off , the car can be driven. Much less the case with these cars

And in the case of cars like the Senna, Aventador, P1, Any koeinsegg, companies can still make pyschotic cars that can stil scare the hell out of its driver and still be safe to drive

07/10/2018 - 09:52 |
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The sad thing is probably very few of those will be tracked and most will become garage queens…

07/10/2018 - 09:54 |
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Toooo ajmo napravit 3 takva auta jedan ce ostat u buggatiju druga 2 nece vidit ni ceste ni staze.to je najveca glupost.ako porsche(ili cak bilo koje drugo auto) moze napravit auto koe moze ic (pre)brzo na stazi ujedno vozit normalo na cesti i podjelit ga s drugim ljudima

07/10/2018 - 13:09 |
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Ben Ireland

Oh yes a cardboard, the forefront of vehicular technology

07/10/2018 - 09:47 |
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There are million things hoing thru my head right now that I can’t even make a simple response to that.

THIS HAS TO BE, THE GREATEST ERROR EVER MADE IN HISTORY OF JOURNALISM

07/10/2018 - 09:49 |
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WTH?!?! That’s like someone has edited my standfirst from a phone and made an autocorrect fail! Not good. Fixed now, but still…

07/10/2018 - 09:51 |
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Anonymous

I can predict what will happen next -

“Bugatti confirmed to be developing a €3 million super crossover”

07/10/2018 - 09:55 |
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HAYABUSA

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

“Bugatti announces Battle Royale mode”

07/10/2018 - 14:52 |
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DL🏁

Car world: Bugatti’s are useless on track
Bugatti: hold my W16

07/10/2018 - 10:07 |
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The chiron does 60 in 2.3. Imagine all that weight being removed and revised aero. ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN

07/11/2018 - 10:45 |
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DaReelTuna

Lightweight for Bugatti means that the car is going to weight at least 2 tons

07/10/2018 - 11:04 |
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A W16 engine and a drivetrain to match does add weight, but I think they can make the car lighter if they really wanted to try. They just chose not to, because it’s hard to sell a car that actively tries to kill the driver.

07/10/2018 - 11:18 |
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Anonymous

It seems like the new WEC rules for 2020 got Bugatti interested as well

07/10/2018 - 11:49 |
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Ben Ireland

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

That’s what I was thinking, I can’t wait for the new series already!

07/10/2018 - 12:31 |
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Anonymous

Bugatti: *Sees Mclaren Senna.
“We could do that too!”

07/10/2018 - 11:52 |
6 | 0

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