The Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport Is a $3.6 Million Rebuke to Electrics - BNN Bloomberg
Don't get me wronggiven the car's base price of $3.6 million, I expected quite a lot compared to every non-Bugatti car ever. But setting the 2021 Chiron against the searingly fast model I drove in 2018, I didn't expect much of a change. It's the same car with a different paint job and a new spoiler, I thought. Cosmetic tweaks at most.
Wrong!
Yes, this variant looks pretty much like the regular Chironif you can call anything from Bugatti regularwith the same wide arch that stretches from the roof to the foot-sills and the same 8.0-liter W-16 1,500-horsepower engine under the hood. The one I drove did carry a classy new carbon-fiber-and-dark gray livery that adds tens of thousands of dollars to the multimillion base price. But the Chiron Pur Sport presents more significant changes as well, which came as welcome surprises the day I drove it around Los Angeles, from Beverly Hills to Mulholland Drive to the Pacific Crest Highway and back.
While the real innovatio
