Bugatti mid-August unveiled the last car it will ever build with its iconic 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged 16-cylinder engine, the W16. The W16 Mistral car is based on the Chiron Super Sport, but in ...

Andy Wallace – Bugatti Pilote Officiel and winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours – assumed the controls of the one-off W16 Mistral World Record Car, warming up the vehicle’s bespoke high ...

As a refresher, the Mistral is the final Bugatti road car to use the incredible quad-turbo 8.0-liter W16 engine, alongside the track-only Bolide, and it's essentially a roofless Chiron with unique ...

Bugatti's last roadster was the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse of 2013, with an 883kW version of the W16 powering the car to 409km/h.

The W16 Mistral was first unveiled at Monterey Car Week in 2022, and the design has gone essentially unchanged since then as the car went through its extensive testing regimen.

The Bugatti W16 Mistral is a swansong for the 8.0-litre, quad-turbo W16 engine, and is tuned to match the 1,600hp version that powered the Chiron Super Sport 300+ to a record-breaking 490kph in 2019.