Yahoo Autos Bugatti Chiron Successor Will Debut Next Year
After a seven-year run, time will soon be called on the Bugatti Chiron. We won't have to wait long for its successor. Speaking to Autocar, just-departing Bugatti design director Achim Ainschedit confirmed that the brand's next car will debut next year, complete with hybrid power.
"The car is finished," Ainschedit said. "We delivered the prototype tooling a couple of months ago and the production tooling will be delivered in a couple of months from now."
This will be the first car developed by Bugatti since Mate Rimac took over as CEO of the new Bugatti Rimac, which brings together the storied French brand with the Croatian EV upstart. Despite Rimac making its name in EVs, the Chiron successor will be a hybrid, with Autocar reporting it'll pair a new V-8 with electrification in some way. Rimac said in an interview last year that the new car will be "totally bonkers," as you'd expect from Bugatti.
In its press release announcing Ainschedit's departure, Rimac said in a statement that he convinced the designer to stay on for another three years in 2021 to see through the creation of the new car. Ainscheidt spent 19 years at Bugatti, and he was responsible for leading the design on Veyron variants, the Chiron and all its derivates, and the track-only Bolide.
Being the first Bugatti without 16-cylinder power in nearly 20 years, the Chrion successor will be a very different animal to what we've grown accustomed to with Bugatti. It will still be expensive, though. Autocar says it'll eclipse the $5 million price tag of the Mistral convertible.
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