Bugatti Brouillard: One-off coupe helps W16 engine ride off into the sunset
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.
MORE: Everything Bugatti
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
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.
CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal.
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.
MORE: Everything Bugatti
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
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.
CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal.
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.
MORE: Everything Bugatti
Content originally sourced from: CarExpert.com.au
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.
CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal.
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.
MORE: Everything Bugatti
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CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. The company also sees its biggest growth opportunities in SUVs, the dominant sector in Australia since 2017 as popularity of traditional passenger cars has declined. That makes the Honda e:Ny1, an electric SUV already offered in the UK and New Zealand, an odds-on favourite for Honda Australia showrooms. While the e:Ny1 sold in the UK is made in China, the New Zealand version is made in Thailand, where various Australian Honda models have been sourced for decades. Based on the HR-V small SUV already sold here, the e:Ny1 starts at $NZ52,000 (A$47,450) compared to the HR-V's $NZ45,800 (A$41,800) kick-off, and uses a 150kW/310Nm front-axle mounted motor and a 68.8kWh lithium-ion battery for 500km of range on the more lenient NEDC cycle. It's unclear if Mr Joseph's North American ties will give the 2025 Honda Prologue large electric SUV, co-developed with US car giant General Motors, a greater chance for a local debut. The Prologue is likely to be more expensive than anything currently in Honda Australia's showrooms, given it's larger than anything Honda currently offers here, and uses a GM platform shared with vehicles such as the Cadillac Lyriq. In the US, it starts at around 50 per cent more than the entry-level Honda CR-V, with its business case made more challenging by its current left-hand drive-only production in Mexico. Another possibility for Australia – but also left-hand drive-only at present – is a new generation of Honda EVs announced in China in 2024, with the first models now in showrooms there. The Honda Ye Series announcement included plans for six models to be launched specifically for China by 2027, joining the previously launched e:N Series of EVs already in Chinese showrooms. The first Ye Series were the P7 and S7 SUVs, both using a new dedicated 'Yunchi' electric architecture and using lithium-ion batteries made by CATL. Honda is also developing new battery tech with CATL, the automaker having started an assembly line earlier in 2025 to test mass-production of cheaper, longer-range solid-state EV batteries. The P7 and S7 are both 4750mm long, or slightly longer than the CR-V SUV currently in Australian showrooms, and feature a single rear-axle motor, 89.8kWh battery and 650km of driving range on the CLTC cycle. Both currently start at ¥199,000 ($AU42,482) in China, around the same as the highest-spec Zeekr X SUV, which in Australia tops out at $64,900. The third Ye Series model, the fastback Honda GT, was launched in April 2025. In its home market, Honda also has an electric kei-class van, and recently revealed the N-One e electric passenger car. However, while these are built in right-hand drive, these are likely too small for our market. While Honda pulled back on its target to have 30 per cent of its global sales be EVs by 2030, the automaker remains committed to a Net Zero goal by 2050 by any means. MORE: Honda Australia looks to China, US for new vehicles MORE: Explore the Honda Australia showroom Content originally sourced from:
