Yahoo Autos Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 'Golden Era' One-Off Commemorates the Brand's History
Bugatti is bringing an extra-special Chiron Super Sport to Monterey Car Week 2023. Called the "Golden Era," it is "perhaps the most challenging bespoke project that Bugatti has ever undertaken," according to the brand.
The Golden Era Super Sport was born when a "very important" customer came to Bugatti and asked for their car to, in a truly unique fashion, celebrate the end of the W-16 era (the engine will end production with the open-top Mistral sometime next year). Bugatti came up with a fascinating solution.
"Our team proposed a concept featuring 45 sketches of the brand’s icons that would be hand-drawn directly onto the car itself, and the owner immediately fell in love with the idea," design director Achim Anscheidt said in a statement. "The implementation may sound quite straightforward, but achieving a perfect finish, and one that would last the test of time, took more patience and craftsmanship than you could ever imagine.”
On the passenger side of the Golden Era you'll find 26 hand-drawn sketches of classic Bugatti icons, including cars like the Type 41 Royale and the Type 57 SC Atlantic. Walk to the driver side, and you'll be greeted to another 19 sketches, this time of Bugatti vehicles from 1987 and up, like the EB110, Veyron, and Chiron. There's even a depiction of the Chiron Super Sport, reminding us of John Baldessari's BMW Art Car, which featured a picture of itself on the door. In all, the sketches took over 400 hours to complete.
“It was very clear to us from the beginning that we can only achieve an authentic finish for these sketches—and at Bugatti authenticity is paramount—if we actually used the pens that we use for sketching on paper—anything else would result in something looking fake or low in quality," Anscheidt continued. "So that’s why we had to find a process that would allow us to use pens and do all of the sketches by hand, directly onto the paintwork.”
The interior has been given a similarly custom treatment. The door panels receive sketches of the EB110, Veyron, Chiron, the Type 57 SC Atlantic, Type 35, and Type 41 Royale, while the center console gets a hand-written "one-of-one" motif.
Bugatti says it plans to officially deliver the Chiron Super Sport Golden Era to its new owner at Monterey Car Week. It could be your one and only chance to catch a glimpse of the car in person before it's tucked away forever.
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