When Bugatti revealed the Divo in 2018, the automaker famous that it’d produce simply 40 automobiles. The €5 million beginning worth added to its exclusivity, so seeing one in public is uncommon. It’s even rarer to see one navigating a hillclimb course, however that occurred in the course of the 2022 Bernina Gran Turismo in Switzerland.
The intense-yellow Divo wasn’t competing, so the motive force stored it removed from the restrict, however they didn’t creep up the hill both. The driving force did push the automobile as they drove it up the course, with its potent quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 engine belting out a wonderful soundtrack that barked with every gearbox shift. The driving force will get into the accelerator sufficient to squeal the tires and jiggle the rear finish unfastened no less than as soon as, however it had an in any other case uneventful run to the end line.
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Bugatti designed the Divo to have a novel styling that separated it from the Chiron. The automobile obtained a brand new front-end structure that modified the look of the automobile’s face, repositioning the headlights right into a vertical orientation. A NACA roof air duct helps feed air to the engine, whereas a brand new lively rear spoiler retains the automobile planted to the bottom. The automaker elevated the automobile’s downforce by 90 kilograms (198 kilos) with considered restyling.
The Divo is lighter than the Chiron by simply 35 kg (77 kilos), however it makes the identical 1,500 horsepower (1,118 kilowatts). One other distinction between the 2 Bugattis is their prime pace, with the Divo restricted to only 236 miles per hour (380 kilometers per hour). The Chiron can attain a restricted pace of 261 mph (420 kph), however the firm designed the Divo to carry out higher on the race observe.
Whereas there are solely 40 Divos on the planet, with the final one leaving the corporate’s Molsheim manufacturing unit in July 2021, they’ve been noticed within the wild earlier than. One proprietor street-parked their Divo in London alongside different costly steel, so there’s a likelihood you can catch one out in public, too.
