Bugatti Will Launch A Second Model Line - And It'll Be An SUV
Bugatti is ready to expand with a second model line, according to reports – and it’s likely to be an SUV.
The French firm is said to have switched its plans away from a four-door ‘Galibier’ saloon based on a lengthened Chiron platform. Sales of such cars are still falling across the globe, in contrast to the continued SUV boom.
Quoting Bugatti CEO Stephan Winkelmann, Autocar has said that the company is ready to build a second model, with Winkelmann adding that “we would look at every body style and regional demand, and not put our money into something that is fading.” That would make a four-door, like the one above rendered by X-Tomi Design, look unlikely.
SUVs are the growth models in pretty much all North American, European and Asian markets right now, so if profits are the primary concern then it wouldn’t make sense for a second Bugatti to be anything else. Whether it would use the Chiron’s chassis modified for more ground clearance or an entirely new one remains to be seen.
Winkelmann has prior when it comes to high-level SUV production. He was in charge of Lamborghini during the design and initial engineering of the Urus, which only recently came to market. A Bugatti SUV could feasibly use a development of the same underpinnings.
Source: Autocar
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Tearfully projectile vomits
i think
That they should
Make the galibier concept a reality
A QUAD TURBO 16 CYLINDER SEDAN FUCC YEAH
I want the caliber to production.
Inb4 everyone who can’t afford one shouts at a manufacturer for wanting to make money…..
Modern SUVs are the stupidest thing that ever happened to the car industry. Theyre just lifted hatchbacks and wagons, using way more fuel than they need to and costing the consumer more than they actually need to pay. The job done by a modern SUV can be done much better by every other class of car. Wanna tow stuff: get a truck. Wanna haul you family of five around in style: get a wagon. Want something fast that can still seat more than two people: get a performance sedan. Wanna go offroad: get a Jeep Wrangler. On that note, yes the Jeep Wrangler is an SUV, but its the only acceptable one on the market as it hasnt separated itself from what its predessesors were meant to do: go offfroad. Of course, then the consumer, usually a bratty 20 something trust find girl, uses it to go shopping and that’s about it. These cars are useless and have no real puropse in the car industry, yet they still sell. Is modern humanity really that stupid? Well, a failed buisnessmen turned reality TV star is leader of the Free world and a good chunk of humanity believes the world is flat, so yes we are apparently.
I am against performance SUV, but the Bugatti SUV would be dope
Try to make sure that it’s even a little bit lower than most SUVs (i don’t mean the ground clearance)
there goes any respect i have for the company……
i mean, why?
for other companies like Lamboghini or Porsche it makes sense. Like you need the cash from those to help to fund other future models.
i agree, no problem
but why for Buggati!?
each car is ALREADY overpriced, and they only make like 1 SINGLE MODEL and its not like VW isnt funding them enough…….
goddamit
I agree. Its just a sad atempt to jump onto the suv craze. Eventhough i am a bugatti fan
It’s not overpriced, because they lose money on each car they make. That’s why they are probably making an SUV.
Bugatti getting funded by VW, just like… Porsche and Lamborghini? So it makes sense for one high-end brand, but not for another? The way I see it, an SUV would make sense for Bugatti, seeing as they are awd anyway and lavished with luxury.
What were the Veyron and Chiron? Not ‘sporty’ cars, but they had the weight and the plumpness of an SUV already, both in looks as in performance. I really consider them to be ‘lowered’ SUV’s (if that makes sense).
In any way, it’s all marketing.
Called it!!
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/ferrari-planning-to-have-a-mostly-hybrid-range-by-2022-will-include-suv/
FOR
FU CKS
SAKE
ANYTHING ELSE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAKE A FKING HATCHBACK FOR ALL I CARE. JUST DONT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TOXIC MARKET OF SOCCER MOM-MOBILES!!!!
This. I’d rather have them make a sedan.
Well, the world really is doomed
Makes more sense than say, a Lotus or Mclaren one…