Secretly shuttled around the globe and tucked away in places like a powerplant-turned-underground-techno-club on the wrong side of what’s left of the Berlin Wall—or in a generic warehouse among shipping containers in industrial Los Angeles—sits a car that Bugatti-Rimac has built its future around. Named for an intricate wristwatch mechanism that also happens to be the French word for “whirlwind,” this new hypercar promises to bridge the gap between the gas-guzzling Bugatti Chirons of yesterday and the electron-eating Rimac Nevera-like electric supercars of tomorrow. With 1,775 hp coming courtesy of a plug-in hybrid system consisting of a new homebrew V-16 combustion engine and three-electric motors, a top speed surpassing 275 mph, and a multimillion-dollar price tag—about $4.3 million, to be more precise—befitting of the bleeding-edge technology stuffed inside, the new 2027 Bugatti Tourbillon aims to help the company leap toward its inevitable electric era.
