Dh12.6 million Chiron Sport pays homage to Bugatti drivers

Bugatti has released a limited edition of its Chiron Sport that pays homage to the brand’s glorious Grand Prix days. Called ‘Les Légendes du Ciel’, the special variant honours the “Daredevils”, famous racing drivers from the last century, many of whom were also fearless, technically skilled pilots.

The Chiron Sport “Les Légendes du Ciel” gets a special, matt-grey “Gris Serpent” paintwork, a modern interpretation of the exterior colour of the aircrafts from the 1920s. This stretches across the entire vehicle extending to the rear spoiler with a high-contrast, white gloss centre stripe.

The front wings are adorned with the "Les Légendes du Ciel“ logo. The “Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge” tricolour in Blue, White and Red decorates the front area of the side sills made of exposed black carbon fibre.

Apart from an exclusive paintwork, the vehicle includes a special full leather interior with hand-drawn sketches and diamond cut aluminium.

The signature horseshoe shaped radiator grille also has a black gloss finish. The grille mesh is made of laser-cut aluminium.

“Bugatti has had close associations with aviation since the company was established more than 110 years ago. Many successful Bugatti racing drivers, such as Albert Divo, Robert Benoist and Bartolomeo ‘Meo’ Costantini, flew for the French Air Force, the French aviator legend Roland Garros privately drove a Bugatti Type 18 to be as fast on the road as in the air,” says Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti. “It is therefore almost an obligation for us today to pay tribute to the legends of that time and dedicate a special edition to them.”

The interior also visually evokes aircraft from the past century. Bugatti uses fine “Gaucho” leather for the entire vehicle interior of the Chiron Sport “Les Légendes du Ciel”. The light brown leather is reminiscent of natural leather in aircraft from that era. The natural material is contrasted only by aluminum trims, an aluminum inlay with the logo "Les Légendes du Ciel" that can also be found on the headrests as well as the special edition numbering “1 of 20”.

A hand-sketched racing scene between the Nieuport 17 aircraft and a Bugatti Type 13 that adorns the car’s interior. The Nieuport 17 is a very special aircraft: it is a French biplane aircraft that was built from 1916 and was very popular with its pilots due to its reliability, speed, agility and manoeuvrability. The single-seater aircraft was powered by a 9-cylinder engine that delivered up to 130 PS.

The Chiron Sport “Les Légendes du Ciel” with a W16 engine and a capacity of 8.0 litres delivers 1,500 PS and 1,600 newton metres of torque. Its maximum speed is electronically limited at 420 km/h. Bugatti will start production of the Chiron Sport “Les Légendes du Ciel” towards the end of 2020. The edition, limited to 20 units, costs 2.88 million euros (Dh12.6 million)net each.