In Molsheim, Bugatti inaugurates its solitary program with a unique creation: Fog. More than a hypercar, a play of high automotive jewelry, shaped as an intimate tribute to the favorite horse of Ettore Bugatti.
Bugatti Mechanical Haute Couture Brouillard
Thoroughbred with the white dress nuanced with mist, Fog was the incarnation of speed, grace and power – of the qualities that are transposed in this treading sculpture of 1,600 horsepower. Based on the apogee of the W16 Quadri-Turbo platform, it condenses two decades of engineering in a design that favors reflective curves to the sliced edges, evoking the tense musculature of a horse launched at the gallop.
Frank Heyl, director of design, worked on the proportion as a tailor would work a drape: a dark lower third to visually anchor the car, lighter upper volumes to stretch the silhouette and magnify the posture. Aerodynamics fits into sculpture: hidden air intakes, a fixed duck beak, optimized rear diffuser. Each line serves both performance and elegance.
The interior reaches a level of refinement rarely equaled: tartan fabrics woven in Paris, carbon fiber tinged with green, machined aluminum. The glass roof floods the space of a cathedral light, while the central column connects outside and interior in a fluid gesture. The door panels and seats files wear horses embroidery, and the gear lever contains, under a glass insert, a handmade miniature sculpture of the eponymous animal.
Commissioned by a passionate collector of the Bugatti universe – from his cars to his furniture signed Carlo and the Bronzes of Rembrandt -, fog synthesizes a century of art, crafts and mechanics.
For Hendrik Malinowski, Managing Director, the solitary program is “total freedom to redefine what a bugatti is, with only two creations per year, each thought as a automotive gem.
Presented at Monterey Car Week, Fog is less a car than a declaration: technical excellence and aesthetic nobility can coexist in a single object, shaped to measure a vision. A rolling manifesto, where mechanics becomes sewing, and speed, pure art.