Bugatti Bolide 2025: Price, consumption, picture, technical data.
The big news this week from the madmen at Bugatti is that the crazy experimental Bugatti Bolide hypercar concept has been so requested by customers that the French automaker has decided to build some for purchase.
Bugatti Racing Car
It’s not just potential customers who love the Bolide, as it was voted the most beautiful hypercar of the year despite being little more than a concept. As a limited edition with no chance of being legal on the road, the Bolide isn’t the kind of machine you would have expected to see come to life, but here it is. Let’s see what we could expect when it hits the market in
Exciting exterior
The experimental study of the original Bugatti Bolide was created “as a racetrack-oriented hyper sports car” with a minimal body and maximum downforce. It is not just intended for drama and headlines – the lightweight construction of this car is a tribute to Bugatti’s motorsport achievements of the 1920s.
It looks like a Formula 1 road car and has a dimpled scoop on the roof with a world-first morphable outer skin, a massive rear diffuser and a crazy rear wing, all built to boost performance through better aero efficiency and therefore traction. There’s more carbon fiber visible here than on any other Bugatti, but there’s still a traditional color split, of which various configurations will be available.
At the front, X-shaped running lights probably won’t cast much light on the road ahead, but this is a race car, so that doesn’t matter. The forged magnesium wheels with centerlock aim to suck hot air from the ceramic braking system, while the full-width rear wing extends beyond the highest point of the LED taillights, which converge in a four-exit exhaust tip. It looks a lot like an enlarged Lego block or an alien cannon. The center fin connected to the wing is dramatic, as is the fact that the wheels are partially covered by the wing and the diffuser takes up part of their width.
The whole thing looks mental and we hope that in the final production form there will be few changes, if any. As a race car we are optimistic that the design will remain radical.
Performance and performance
Featuring the same 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16, all-wheel drive and seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission found in other Bugatti products, the Bolide experimental engine would have had plenty of grunt with a production engine. Bugatti wanted more, however. In the concept, 1,824 hp and 1,364 lb-ft of torque are achieved with the help of “among other things” 110-octane racing fuel. In production form, however, the Bolide will only have 1,578 hp and 1,180 lb-ft of torque using 98RON fuel.
Simulations run on the full-weapon-grade concept suggested the Bolide could do 0-100 in just 2.17 seconds and 0-124 mph in 4.36 seconds. Top speed is estimated to be “well over” 310 mph, and Bugatti claims the Bolide should be able to go from rest to its top speed and back to a stop in just 33.62 seconds. Expect those numbers to deteriorate slightly with several hundred less horsepower available in production form.
This all sounds incredible, but “Bugatti designers and engineers are currently fine-tuning the aerodynamics and handling, and developing the car to international FIA safety standards.” This means we could see some changes to the final product, and with the original concept featuring titanium fasteners throughout and some components made from 3D-printed aerospace-grade titanium alloy, it might make sense for Bugatti to simplify the design a little. We hope the changes, if any, will be minimal, but we highly doubt the finished product will be anything but spectacular.
What we do know is that the production car will weigh 3,196 pounds and will feature an automatic fire extinguishing system, pressurized refueling via a fuel bladder, six-point harnesses, and a HANS system for maximum driver safety.
Interior Bugatti Bolide
We haven’t seen so few trimmings in a Bugatti cabin since the racing cars of the 1920s, but we wouldn’t want it any other way. Bugatti doesn’t tell us much about this cabin, but we do see a small screen in front of the U-shaped steering wheel.
Various switches and buttons adorn this wheel and the minimalist center control panel that extends from the dashboard, and we also see what we expect to be rearview cameras in the outer wings, suggesting that all interior rearview mirrors will be screens. We expect the hidden technology will be the main one, and it’s quite possible that drivers will be able to access different levels of performance as they gain confidence behind the wheel.
Without airbags, climate control and media systems, a massive block of weight is saved from the car and the byproduct is a clean and focused appearance. With weight saving as the core focus of this car, we expect the driver’s seat to be specifically designed for the driver, with the pedals and steering wheel likely to be the only moving parts.
A recent Instagram video from series special edition buyer Manny Khoshbin suggests just that, when he mentions that the experimental car’s cabin wouldn’t fit his frame and that Bugatti will build it to his specifications.
Price Bugatti Bolide
How much is the Bugatti Bolide worth? At current exchange rates, the asking price of 4 million euros is over $4.7 million. That’s a lot of money, but with only 40 kits available, you can bet that the lightest, craziest Bugatti ever is only available at one price.
