Bugatti announced that it will be bringing a real show car of its Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo to this year's Frankfurt Motor Show, transforming a virtual project into tangible reality. Bugatti has also published the first digital renderings of the car.
The design of the virtual race car celebrates Bugatti's racing history, and is based on state-of-the-art motor sport technology, a tribute to its great racing tradition of the 1920s and 1930s and its victories in Le Mans 24-hour races.
Although the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo will be racing in a class in which the cars generally have little or no relationship to real road vehicles, and their designs therefore far more extreme and performance-oriented than that of a street-legal car, two things were important to the design team: First, the virtual car should look unmistakably like a Bugatti and completely embody the brand values of 'Art, Forme, Technique', and second, every part of the vehicle should have a real function. Consequently, the virtual race car was developed in close cooperation with the Bugatti engineers and is based on cutting-edge racing technology and precise aerodynamic analyses.
The designers have unmistakably transferred the most important characteristics of Bugatti's design DNA into the styling of the virtual race car. You can distinctly see the Veryon shape underpining the design of the Vision Gran Turismo.
"We wanted to develop a virtual race car for our fans which is a genuine Bugatti down to the last detail and radiates the unrestricted values of the brand," the designers said. "We hope that the gamers will have just as much fun racing the car as we did in developing it."
The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo show car will be displayed from 17th to 27th September 2015 at the Bugatti exhibit at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
