Meet the one-off Bugatti Chiron Super Sport Golden Era, a vision from a Bugatti collector that was made a reality by the Bugatti and its design team. The artistic Chiron Super Sport gets the legendary W16 engine and features Bugatti sketches drawn with pencils as a livery, it also gets sketches on the inside. Bugatti says that it was the most challenging bespoke project that the French marque has ever undertaken.
Details of the one-off Bugatti Chiron Super Sport Golden Era
The bespoke Chiron Super Sports Golden Era is finished on the outside in a dual-tone paint scheme, a special metallic black finish called ‘Nocturne Black’ and a special shade of golden named ‘Doré’. The one-off supercar gets sketches made with pencil directly integrated into the paint-work. These sketches highlight significant milestones when Bugatti reshaped automotive history through its groundbreaking innovations.
On the passenger side, it features 26 hand-drawn sketches that showcase icons like the 1926 Type 41 Royale, celebrated as the pinnacle of luxury at the time, and the Type 57 SC Atlantic, renowned as one of the most beautifully designed cars.
On the driver's side, 19 sketches depict Bugatti's revival and enduring success since 1987, tracing the journey from the EB110, through the Veyron, and to the Chiron. It gets the 'Golden Era' motif written below the spoiler too.
Inside the cabin, the one-of-one Bugatti show-offs three Bugatti icons hand-painted on each door panel. The golden-black theme continues on the inside with the seat featuring 'Golden Era' embroidery at the headrests, the 'one-of-one' motifs can also be found along with many bespoke touches. The car also has door sills with '1909-1956' written on the passenger's side while '1987-2023' written on the driver's side.
The 'Golden Era' Chiron Super Sport is powered by an 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 engine that produces a whopping 1,578 horsepower and 1600Nm of torque, mated to a 7-speed automatic gearbox.
A word from the Bugatti Officials
Achim Anscheidt, former Bugatti Design Director in charge of this creation, explains the ideation’s starting point, “A very important customer came to us and during our conversations, he expressed that he believed the Chiron Super Sport and its W16 engine represented a landmark moment in the world of the automobile. He wanted to do something truly unique in celebration. We looked back through Bugatti's history to find a number of these landmark moments, including the times of Ettore Bugatti, Jean Bugatti and Roland Bugatti, which really marked the first golden era for the brand. And then, of course, the modern-day incarnation of Bugatti from 1987, picking out the icons from these times that came to define the Bugatti brand. Our team proposed a concept featuring 45 sketches of the brand’s icons that would be hand-drawn directly onto the car itself, and the owner immediately fell in love with the idea. The implementation may sound quite straightforward, but achieving a perfect finish, and one that would last the test of time, took more patience and craftsmanship than you could ever imagine.”
Bugatti Managing Director, Hendrik Malinowski said, “Sur Mesure literally translates as tailored and it is this complete ultra-luxury customer-centric approach to car design that really sets it apart. “It was very clear to us from the beginning that we can only achieve an authentic finish for these sketches and at Bugatti authenticity is paramount if we actually used the pencils that we use for sketching on paper – anything else would result in something looking fake or low in quality. So that’s why we had to find a process that would allow us to use pencils and do all of the sketches by hand, directly onto the paintwork.”
