THE W16 MISTRAL THE ULTIMATE BUGATTI ROADSTER

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Bugatti’s long line of high-performance roadsters is admired the world over. The development of the W16 Mistral – influenced by engineering that pushes boundaries, challenges design standards and sets new benchmarks – opens a new chapter in the brand’s unrivalled roadster history.
  • 4 March 2024

For over two centuries, Bugatti has offered some of the finest roadsters ever created. Jean Bugatti was behind many of these models. Created between the mid-1920s and the late 1930s, Bugatti roadsters were produced in small numbers with an absolute quest for perfection. Among them: the Type 40 A, the Type 41 Roadster Esders, the Type 55 Roadster and the emblematic Type 57 Roadster Grand Raid Gangloff.

A true tour de force, the W16 Mistral1, is an evocative, powerful and memorable vehicle in many ways. It is, after all, the first Bugatti roadster since the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, presented in 2012, and the last road appearance of the brand’s legendary W16 engine. It was therefore important that the development of the W16 Mistral should focus on absolute engineering excellence and embody more than just a reinterpretation of the Chiron2.

Built around the 1,600 PS W16 engine, the W16 Mistral offers craftsmanship and luxury that no other roadster can match. Its design and engineering have been completely rethought.

The monocoque has been redesigned and reconfigured to create a more rounded silhouette and meet strict safety regulations, including those for a roofless vehicle.

That’s why the Bugatti team had to work hard to design a dynamic vehicle with cutting-edge engineering combining performance, comfort, safety, handling and ease of driving.

Emilio Scervo: “One of the main challenges was to create a roadster capable of reaching speeds of up to 260.98 mph, and to combine this performance with a luxurious and refined experience offering great safety to the driver.”

To achieve this goal, it has never been more important to put into practice Bugatti’s philosophy that “form follows performance“. With this in mind, every component was designed both to push the limits in terms of aesthetics and to achieve totally new levels of performance. The challenge was to make the roadster’s structure as rigid and light as possible, so that the driving experience would be similar to that of a Chiron.

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True to its Bugatti roadster roots, the W16 Mistral is a dynamic, agile and responsive hyper-sportive, which required the development team to use lightweight, ultra-high-performance composite materials and complex structures to reduce vehicle weight while increasing chassis rigidity. This same approach was adopted for the doors of the W16 Mistral, another key element in the development. They feature an innovative frame structure that enables them to absorb an exceptional amount of energy in the event of a side impact, ensuring the safety of driver and passenger.

A new, highly advanced air intake system has been specially created for the W16 Mistral to match its new exterior design. For example, innovative air intake vents located behind the headrests have been designed and developed with stringent – but essential – safety tests in mind. Each “mouth” is made from a bespoke carbon-fibre structure capable of supporting the full weight of the car in the event of a rollover. This new air intake configuration also enriches the W16 driver’s experience, enhancing the musicality of the legendary 8-liter engine. An auditory sensation unrivalled in the automotive world.

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Nevertheless, the sound on board the W16 Mistral is not limited to the roar of the W16 engine, it is also accompanied by a top-of-the-range audio system developed specifically for the roadster. Listening to music on board the W16 Mistral becomes an incomparable pleasure, even when it’s hurtling along at high speed, playing with the powerful wind from which it takes its name.

Inside the W16 Mistral, woven leather covers the newly designed door panels, meticulously tested and produced to Bugatti quality standards. In a nod to the W16 Mistral’s illustrious predecessors, the gearshift – machined from a solid block of aluminum – pays homage to Rembrandt Bugatti’s famous “Dancing Elephant” sculpture. This sculpture already adorned the radiator of the emblematic Type 41 Royale in Ettore’s time, the most luxurious Bugatti ever created. A way of inscribing this modern masterpiece of the brand even further in the long line of Bugatti roadsters, recognized and admired for decades.

Website: https://www.bugatti.com/fr/

Photo credits: © Bugatti

Selection by : Alexandre Joulia-Helou, photographer and deputy editor of AMILCAR MAGAZINE GROUP.

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