The Bugatti Bolide is a track-only hypercar unlike any other. Only 40 will ever exist, and each one costs $4 million. It’s the type of car you’d expect to find in a climate-controlled garage waiting for the 2088 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Thankfully, that’s not the life of every Bolide out there. A new onboard video from the Nürburgring GP track shows the utterly bonkers performance the Bugatti offers. The Bolide makes the same power as its road-going counterpart, with 1,578 horsepower from its W-16 engine. But it only weighs around 3,200 pounds, as opposed to the 4,300-pound Chiron. The speed at which the Bugatti closes the gap between other cars is wild to watch.
The power turns the Porsche 911s and other incredible performance cars on the track into annoying traffic for the Bugatti driver. A McLaren Senna is little more than a blur as the Bugatti passes it.
The Bolide has a lower top speed than the Chiron, 236 miles per hour versus 261. Despite the explosive acceleration, it doesn’t even get near that on the track. The digital display shows the Bugatti reaching a top speed of 186 mph—still pretty nuts for a road course.
Bugatti originally showed off the Bolide prototype in 2020 with a theoretical 1,825 horsepower and a top speed of over 300 mph. It’d be three years before the company revealed the car in production form, with another year of testing before deliveries began. It’s great to finally see the car on the track, bringing joy to riders and fear to other drivers.
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