‘L’Ultime’: Celebrating the end of the incomparable Chiron Era
Bugatti ends the Chiron era with the final unit, 'L’Ultime', marking the production of 500 units since 2016 and celebrating its legacy as the first 1,500 PS roadgoing car. Share
Since 2016, the Bugatti Chiron has stood as an icon of hypersports car performance. Limited to just 500 units, the final Chiron has now been hand-assembled by the craftspeople in Molsheim; a vibrant piece of bespoke art known as ‘L’Ultime’. This final farewell to Chiron marks the closing of an extraordinary era of performance that saw it become the first 1,500 PS roadgoing car and the first production car to surpass 300 mph. As it entered the world with spectacular elegance and power, so too does its production end, on the cusp of an all-new Bugatti era.
This final Chiron masterpiece—a Super Sport—beautifully reinterprets the car that took centre stage in Geneva eight years ago, reminiscent in style and visual identity. When it first wowed the world in 2016, the colour split of ‘Atlantic Blue’ with ‘French Racing Blue’, intersected by a sweeping C-line milled from hand-polished aluminium alloy, was unlike anything seen in the automotive world before. For this 500th and final Chiron, the Bugatti Sur Mesure team reimagined the original design with a mesmerizing interplay of fading colours and a tribute to all the places where the car has spread its magic since 2016.
Symbolizing the brand’s prowess and the evolution of its craft over the past eight years, the two colors that adorn this special Super Sport – a distinctively created fading ‘French Racing Blue’ and an ‘Atlantic Blue’ – now seamlessly blend with each other, merging to create an arresting side-on visual that is accentuated by the colored wheels mirroring the front and rear shades. A tailored blue Bugatti macaron, exclusively designed and developed for this farewell edition, sits proudly within the grille. In a spectacular flourish, adorning its bodywork are hand-written places and events that helped to build the legend of the Chiron. Inspired by the philosophy of ‘bullet speed’ – a blurring of vision at high speeds – this unique Chiron Super Sport hints at its incomparable top speed, even at a standstill.
The aesthetic form of the Super Sport came to life when the Sur Mesure team at Bugatti and the customer decided to create an homage to this important moment in Bugatti’s history, retracing the most incredible milestones of the Chiron as well as celebrating the most important moments in the brand’s history, bringing to life the journey of the Chiron model, from its debut in 2016 to the present day.
Channeling the DNA of Bugatti and encapsulating the brand’s ‘Form Follows Performance’ ethos, the Chiron has pushed boundaries, set benchmarks that were previously unimaginable, and rewritten automotive norms across a critically acclaimed family line-up that includes the Chiron, Chiron Sport, Chiron Pur Sport, and Chiron Super Sport, in addition to special editions like the Chiron Super Sport 300+ and Les Légendes du Ciel.
This captivating legacy flows across the sides of the unique Super Sport in pure content composition: the launch in Geneva, appearances at Chantilly, testing phases at the Paul Ricard circuit, and the 300 mph run at the Ehra-Lessien testing track. And, of course, the historic Bugatti home in Molsheim, as well as the iconic Château Saint Jean and Cape Canaveral, where a number of customers have experienced the Chiron’s top-speed performance.
Celebrating the very last Chiron, the hand-written number ‘500’–gracing the exterior, the wheel caps, and rear wing – is also engraved onto the engine cover housing the magnificent Bugatti W16 powertrain. Simultaneously, it marks another milestone in the Bugatti journey of more than 115 years; another 500 incomparable works of art, inspired by Ettore Bugatti’s original vision, in the world to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Forming an unwavering bond to the wonderful artistry exhibited across the Super Sport is the craftsmanship of the highest order, exquisite details that bring the Chiron’s eight-year timeline to life. The French flag, representing the birthplace of the brand and the car, is fittingly applied to the mirror wings. The Super Sport’s grille is finished in the brand’s now iconic ‘Atlantic Blue’ and a special horseshoe mesh has been crafted with centred stripes.
The use of the ‘500’ seamlessly transitions from the outside to within, adorning a Chiron cabin that matches the bespoke nature of the car’s exterior. Here, a carbon fibre symphony unfolds for both the driver and passenger, connecting the luxurious ‘Deep Blue’ leather and ‘Blue Carbon Matt’ high-tech finishes with hints of the iconic Bugatti ‘French Racing Blue’ shade. Intricate, hand-woven ‘Deep Blue’ leather that is hand-cut, hand-stitched, and applied to each door panel offers this final Chiron the quintessence of excellence and timelessness, symbolizing peerless craftsmanship since the Chiron’s unveiling in 2016.
