Exclusive Bugatti Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1' presented at Pebble Beach

Bugatti presented a special car, the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1', at the recent Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. This edition of the fastest production roadster in the world impressively demonstrates a core competency of the French luxury brand, namely customisation.

The Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1' takes inspiration from the brand’s historical designs and vehicles and the result is a unique supercar which Bugatti president Wolfgang Durheimer personally presented to the future owner from Singapore. The car is truly one of a kind, with a number of features exclusively designed and developed by Bugatti for the customer of this car.

The carbon fibre body of the '1 of 1' was produced in black and yellow, reviving the historical Bugatti family colours. This colour scheme and the split will be exclusive to the Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1'.

For the first time, Bugatti has specially designed the radiator grille in the Bugatti horseshoe at the customer's request. The traditional expanded mesh grille was replaced in the Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1' with a grille in which the customer's initials, 'PL', were laser cut.

In an extremely complex process, which Bugatti developed and patented, every inner surface of the grille was hand-polished. After that the grille was black-anodised, then the front was polished and the grill was finished again with a natural anodised layer.

The customer's wish to express the historical roots of Bugatti in his Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1' was expressed in another detail of the car which cannot be overlooked: the brand logo, lovingly called the Bugatti 'macaron'. In addition to being displayed in its traditional place as an enamel badge on the grille of every Bugatti, here it appears in black on the yellow underside of the rear wing when it extends at 180km/h.

The interior also clearly echoes the Bugatti family colours. The complete interior is trimmed in black leather and the instrument panel is made of deep-black exposed carbon.

The link to the modern history of Bugatti is created on the black door panels. A new production technique was used for this: the door panel is made from due-tone leather, black on the outside and yellow on the inside. The leather was perforated with a laser so that the holes exposed the inner yellow layer. The result is a silhouette of a Bugatti Veyron.

Of course, the classic methods of customising were also used in the Grand Sport Vitesse '1 of 1'. For example, the Bugatti logo and the text 'one of one' - both in yellow - decorate the black carbon inlays on the extension of the centre console. And as a very personal touch, the Bugatti designers created a portrait of the customer and engraved it together with his name in the door sill trim.

The average net price of Bugatti vehicles sold, including options, is presently more than €2 million (S$3.3 million). For example, the clear-coated exposed carbon-fibre body is very popular. To go with it, Bugatti now offers nine colours, more than any other manufacturer in the world.