While some women in their 70s are content to cruise around in little hatchbacks, and a few find themselves scaling back their at-the-wheel activity altogether, not every female septuagenarian fits that mold. One has just commissioned her very own bespoke Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, a 1,578 hp hypercar that’s among the fastest new vehicles on the planet.
Meet the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ‘57
One of One,’ one of the very last Chirons to be produced before the sold-out
supercar goes out of production. As you’ve probably guessed from the name and
the presence of the old timer in the lead image, this particular Chiron is a
tribute to the legendary Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic. The Super Sport’s owner
first spotted an original 57 SC 20 years ago and fell in love with the design,
which is regularly mentioned in lists of the world’s most beautiful cars. Two
decades later her husband surprised her with a trip to Bugatti’s Molsheim base
to configure her own Chiron Super Sport, and it sounds like she didn’t have
much trouble finding inspiration for the design.
As Bugatti points out, the basic Chiron
design already draws heavily from the 57 SC, echoing the pre-war car’s teardrop
shape and central bolted spine. But this one-off closes the gap further with a
special version of the famous horseshoe grille featuring polished vertical
vanes and a thicker central fin, just like on the 1930s car. But the most
obvious link is the light blue metallic paint, a perfect copy of the blue used
on the 57 SC the customer spied all those years ago. Bugatti flew out to see
that car while it was on display at Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum with a color
swatch to check for accuracy.
The five-spoke Super Sport wheels also get
a mix of blue paint and chrome, just like the classic 57, and the underside of
the rear wing features a hand-drawn silhouette of the Atlantic, finished with
‘57’ and ‘One of One’ lettering. The interior, meanwhile, is finished in Gaucho
leather and also benefits from blue detailing, a ‘57 One of One’ plaque on the
console, and Bugatti’s famous elephant motif on the seatbacks.
