America's first Bugatti Bolide has touched down in Texas, and it's not here for a leisurely Sunday drive.
The track-only hypercar landed at Team CJ Works in Austin wearing the launch-spec blue and black livery that screams "I cost more than your entire neighborhood."
The W16 Swan Song Goes Ballistic
Bugatti's final W16-powered creation isn't going quietly into the hybrid future.
The Bolide packs the familiar 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16, but unleashed to deliver a savage 1577 hp and 1180 lb-ft of torque. Numbers that would make NASA engineers nod in approval.
It weighs 1450 kg dry—about as much as a Honda Civic, except with ten times the horsepower.
Do the math and you get a power-to-weight ratio exceeding 1100 hp per tonne. Physics just called. It wants to renegotiate the laws of motion.
Track Weapon, Not Garage Queen
The first American owner skipped the champagne toast and headed straight to Circuit of the Americas.
COTA's 5.5 km track—with its 20 turns and 41-meter elevation changes—proved the perfect playground for a machine designed to embarrass everything else on track.
The chassis isn't some beefed-up road car platform. It's bespoke carbon fiber built to Le Mans prototype standards with FIA safety certification. It's a race car that happens to have a Bugatti badge.
Limited Exclusivity Comes at a Price
Only 40 examples will ever exist, each commanding around $4 million before the inevitable customization that pushes some closer to $5 million.
The Bolide deliveries represent:
- The final chapter of Bugatti's legendary W16 engine
- A track-only experience without compromise
- The most extreme interpretation of the Bugatti ethos
Hypercar collector Manny Khoshbin secured the second US delivery, with his slightly more subdued spec arriving at Bugatti Newport Beach.
Additional cars are trickling into the country through dealerships like Miller Motorcars in Connecticut.
The Bolide isn't just rare—it's extinction-level unobtainium. It's the dinosaur-killing asteroid of the internal combustion era, one final spectacular impact before Bugatti evolves into its hybrid future.
And based on the COTA shakedown, it's clear this isn't a museum piece. It's the most violent expression of what 16 cylinders, four turbos, and zero compromises can achieve when engineers are told "make it fast" instead of "make it practical."
