The Bugatti Brouillard is a special one-off model designed by the company’s Solitaire coachmaking division in conjuction with its owner, and sends the W16 off in style.
Although Bugatti has already revealed the first of its next generation of vehicles, the Tourbillion, which has a V16 plug-in hybrid drivetrain, the company has yet to wrap up production of the W16 Bollide track car and Mistral open-top.
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The Brouillard coupe is based on the Mistral roadster. Apart from adding a fixed roof, every exterior panel is unique, with the Brouillard swapping the Mistral’s hard creases for softer surfacing and equine-inspired bulging muscles.
According to Franky Heyl, Bugatti’s design director, “The aesthetics of this car abstain from sharp lines in favor of more reflection-based surfaces that mimic a kind of athletic muscle, like a trained horse”.
That said, the two are still very clearly related with the two sharing head- and tail-lights, helmet visor-style glasshouse, and their overall silhouette.
Named after company founder Ettore Bugatti’s favourite thoroughbred, the Brouillard is full of horse-related details, which include embroidered horses in the door panels and seat backs, and a sculpture of Brouillard the horse encased in glass in the gear shifter.
Brouillard is also French for mist or fog, if you really want to know, and this may have been the inspiration for the car’s satin green paint job.
Green is also used extensively throughout the cabin, where a two-tone green scheme that’s certainly eye-catching and different. In a further nod to the car’s equine theme, the horses on the seats have a tartan pattern.
Although the Brouillard will one of the last W16 cars made, it is the first vehicle to come out of Bugatti’s new Programme Solitaire coachbuilding service. Solitare will be limited to making two cars per year in order to ensure “each receives the complete attention and craftsmanship that it demands”.
Like the Brouillard, future commissions from Solitare will have a largely unique exterior, and heavily customised interior, but will use an off-the-shelf drivetrain.
In the Brouillard case, this is carried over from the Mistral, so behind the passenger cell is a 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 making 1176kW or 1600 metric horsepower, and 1600Nm. It drives all four wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.
No word on how much the Brouillard cost its owner, but suffice to say it will be significantly more than the €5 million ($8.9 million) price tag of a standard, unmodified Mistral.
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