According to Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. “Happiness is not around the corner. It is the corner” and the new strictly limited Bugatti Divo promises significantly better handling properties, which will certainly make those lucky enough to own one very happy indeed.
Bugatti is working on a new model, the Bugatti Divo, named after Albert Divo, the French racing driver who won the famous Targa Florio race on a mountainous circuit in Sicily for Bugatti twice in the late 1920s. Based on the requirements for such a race, the Bugatti Divo will be light and nimble and will boast enormous downforce and g-forces. The result will be outstanding handling properties and the dynamic character of the car will be underlined by a new, strong design language.
Targa Florio, 1929: Albert Divo at the wheel of the Bugatti Type 35 with which he won the demanding circuit race in Sicily, as he had done the previous year.
“With the Divo, we want to thrill people throughout the world,” the Bugatti President continues. “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.”
Bugatti is reviving its coach building tradition in the production of the Divo. In the first decades of its history, the French luxury brand had considerable success with bodies designed in-house under the leadership of Jean Bugatti and installed on existing chassis.
The Divo is being made in a limited series of only 40 vehicles. The net price is €5 million and Bugatti plans to unveil the Divo as a world premiere at 11:20 a.m. (local time) on 24 August 2018 on the lawn at the renowned event “The Quail – A Motorsports Gathering“ in California, USA.
Photographs by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.