Bugatti’s Final W16 Roars Into Florida
The first Bugatti Mistral has touched American soil.
Florida just got louder.
The mystery owner took delivery of this $5+ million hypercar with little fanfare but maximum impact. White exterior. Blue accents. Unmistakably Bugatti.
The Last Dance of a Legend
This isn’t just another hypercar delivery. The Mistral represents Bugatti’s final curtain call for the legendary W16 engine – the powerplant that redefined what “fast” means in the 21st century.
Only 99 will ever exist. All sold out before the first one was built.
The quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W16 engine delivers 1,600 horsepower of pure mechanical violence. It propels this roofless monster to a verified 282 mph top speed – making it the fastest roadster on planet Earth.
What $5 Million Gets You
The Mistral’s specs read like engineering pornography:
- 0-60 mph in approximately 2.4 seconds
- Quarter-mile time under 10 seconds
- Engine: 8.0L quad-turbo W16 making 1,600 hp
- Top speed: 282 mph (verified at Bugatti’s test track)
- Production: Limited to 99 units globally
Each Mistral costs roughly the same as 50 Corvette Z06s. The difference? You can actually buy a Z06.
End of an Era
The W16 engine dies with the Mistral.
Bugatti’s next chapter involves a V16 hybrid powertrain in the upcoming Tourbillon. Progress marches on, but the raw, unhinged character of the quad-turbo W16 belongs to automotive history now.
The Florida delivery marks the beginning of customer handovers worldwide. Each car represents the culmination of Bugatti’s combustion-engine expertise – engineering that took the Chiron Super Sport 300+ past the once-unthinkable 300 mph barrier.
The Mistral isn’t just a hypercar. It’s the exclamation point at the end of an engineering statement that began with the Veyron and redefined what humans thought possible from four wheels and an engine.
And now one roams wild in Florida. Listen for it.
