Bugatti FKP Hommage – 1,600 PS reimagined Veyron celebrates Ferdinand Piëch’s world’s quickest automotive

It’s arduous to imagine it’s been 20 years for the reason that Bugatti Veyron made its debut, capping off its notoriously protracted growth by snatching the title of world’s quickest manufacturing automotive with an astonishing 407 km/h high velocity. Adore it or hate it, there’s no denying the Bug’s outsized affect on the business, on high of siring a dynasty of velocity machines from Molsheim.

Bugatti has now resurrected the Veyron with the FKP Hommage, the identify of which pays tribute to the seminal hypercar’s late architect – legendary former Volkswagen Group chairman Ferdinand Piëch. If these initials sound acquainted (the Ok stands for Karl, if you happen to should know), that’s as a result of it was hooked up to a different homage supercar a number of years in the past – the Lamborghini Sián FKP 37.

An engineer at coronary heart, Piëch was instrumental bringing his brainchild to fruition, from sketching the W engine format (whereas on a bullet practice in Japan, natch) to decreeing that the automotive wanted to have over 1,000 PS, be able to over 400 km/h, have all-wheel drive and be refined sufficient “to reach on the opera in a tuxedo or a ball robe,” mentioned Bugatti managing director Hendrik Malinowski.

It took far longer than anticipated and swallowed huge sums of cash, however the Veyron did all the things that was mentioned on the tin, due to a monstrous 8.0 litre quad-turbo W16 making 1,001 PS and 1,250 Nm of torque, mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. Remarkably, it did all of that in supreme consolation, the 2 occupants coddled in an opulent leather-lined cabin.

Recreating the sheer influence of the unique isn’t any imply feat, however that was precisely what an immensely rich consumer tasked Bugatti’s Programme Solitaire – the unique coachbuilding and personalisation arm that had already churned out the Fog – to do with the FKP Hommage. The result’s a one-off that takes Jozef Kaba?’s iconic Bauhaus-inspired design and drags it kicking and screaming into the fashionable day.

Constructed on the bones of the Chiron, the FKP Hommage carries all of the hallmarks of its religious forebear – the cab-rearward profile, the gently-falling beltline, the rounded air intakes aft of the doorways and the chrome strip that runs from the bottom of the A-pillars all the way in which to the rear of the automotive, amongst many different immediately recognisable particulars. Even the door handles have been faithfully recreated.

However the strains are extra outlined – such because the crease over the entrance fenders – and your complete design has been fastidiously stretched to suit the bigger underpinnings. The signature horseshoe grille has additionally been made bigger and extra three-dimensional; milled from a single piece of aluminium, it stands happy with the remainder of the entrance finish, giving it way more highway presence.

Different bits across the automotive have been modernised to ensure that the FKP Hommage to look proper at house in 2026. The varied apertures across the automotive have been made fairly a bit larger to feed and funky the extra highly effective engine – extra on that later. The lamps additionally function the most recent LED know-how, with L-shaped daytime operating lights on the entrance and a tunnel-like design for the quad taillights.

In the meantime, the wheels function the identical multi-spoke design because the Veyron’s authentic “Machiavelli” rollers, however with subtly deeper sculpting and upsized to twenty inches in diameter on the entrance, 21 inches on the rear. Most significantly, the open engine bay stays, revealing the uprated engine from the Chiron Tremendous Sport. That includes bigger turbochargers, enhanced intercoolers, upgraded cooling methods and a strengthened gearbox, it now produces a heady 1,600 PS – that means it ought to simply breeze previous the Veyron’s high whack.

Even the attribute two-tone black and pink paint has been advanced for the FKP Hommage. The deep crimson hue was created by beginning with a silver aluminium-based layer, topped with a red-tinged clear coat for added depth and lustre, As for the “black”, that’s truly naked carbon fibre however with a ten% black pigment, in order that the weave will shock onlookers after they take a better look.

Inside, the FKP Hommage is simply as beautiful, persevering with its recreation of the Veyron in some stunning methods. The horseshoe centre console returns, however with the Chiron’s vertically-arranged air-con dials and an engine-turned end – a way supposedly borrowed from Ettore Bugatti’s straight-eight engines. The prolonged transmission tunnel trim has additionally been machined from stable aluminium.

A spherical steering wheel is one other refreshing blast from the previous, as an increasing number of carmakers undertake in-vogue flat-bottomed (and topped) rims. As per the unique, the entire cabin is upholstered in tan leather-based, save for the Hermès-style intricately-pattern textile used on the seats, customized woven in Paris.

The actual spotlight of the cabin sits on high of the centre console – a 41 mm Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Tourbillon “clock” (nothing to do with Bugatti’s newest hypercar). This mechanical timepiece shouldn’t be related to the automotive in any approach – to wind it, the “gondola” it sits on rotates a number of instances a second, and it’ll accomplish that even when the automotive is off to maintain time.

On condition that considered one of these – one which sits in your wrist, after all – at present retails at greater than one million ringgit on the secondhand market, you received’t be shocked to seek out that the remainder of the automotive isn’t low-cost. A spokesperson advised Autocar that the FKP Hommage price the proprietor in extra of €10 million (RM47.3 million). Yeowch.

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