The Ex-Lamborghini Boss Of Audi Sport Is Stepping Up To Bugatti

Stephan Winkelmann, former chief at Lamborghini and present head honcho at Audi Sport, is to take the reins at Bugatti next year
The Ex-Lamborghini Boss Of Audi Sport Is Stepping Up To Bugatti

Mr Audi Sport, formerly Mr Lamborghini, is continuing his pretty meteoric rise up the Volkswagen Group ranks.

Stephan Winkelmann has been appointed President of Bugatti Automobiles from January 1 2018, a day after Wolfgang Durheimer retires. Durheimer, whose career spans long stints at BMW, Porsche, Bentley and Bugatti, plus a couple of years at Audi, has had enough and apparently wants a quieter life. Maybe he wants to build one of these...

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Winkelmann presided over the rise and rise of Lamborghini under Audi ownership, overseeing record sales, awesome new models and Scrooge McDuck-style mountains of profits, at least compared to Lamborghini’s bad old days when it couldn’t even break even.

His move to Audi happened less than two years ago, making this hop up to Bugatti something of a surprise, but his expertise with performance cars is clearly valued. Before his 11 years at the helm of Lamborghini, he worked as the CEO of Fiat Auto Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He is fluent in several languages, has a degree in politics and has extremely shiny shoes.

We look forward to seeing what he can do with the projects that succeed the fairly brisk Chiron, which was, of course, Durheimer’s baby.

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Anonymous

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10/24/2017 - 12:05 |
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Uldis Tas Pats

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This is not f#ckin’ Youtube…

10/24/2017 - 12:07 |
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Audilover

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This is not YouTube.

10/24/2017 - 12:07 |
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Anonymous

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nobody cares :)

10/24/2017 - 12:10 |
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The TallDutchmen

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And what?

10/24/2017 - 12:17 |
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Anonymous

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To do something this stupid?

10/24/2017 - 12:26 |
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Nishant Dash

This is the Kind of Promotion that one doesn’t want 😂😂

10/24/2017 - 12:11 |
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B-To

I don’t know why, can’t think of something else but this when you have a one car lineup

10/24/2017 - 12:30 |
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Boosted69420

there will be more than 4 hoops tailgating you now…. 8 square-ish hoops!

10/24/2017 - 12:32 |
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If you have Bugattis behind you I’ll have whatever car you have thanks

10/24/2017 - 15:40 |
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thats like getting tailgated by 2 audis at the same time

10/25/2017 - 01:03 |
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Anonymous

Mr Lamborghini, Mr Audi Sport and afterwards he will be Mr Bugatti

10/24/2017 - 12:39 |
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Lucas Cassan

Maybe Audi will continue with the 4.2 instead of these awful V6’s now… (Wishful thinking)

10/24/2017 - 12:55 |
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Joseph Le Corre

More excuses to say his name :)

10/24/2017 - 12:59 |
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Anonymous

So pretty much he went from VW to VW. Will we get a Bugatti capable of Bugatti speeds and VW mpg then?

10/24/2017 - 13:01 |
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Anonymous

His future goal is to reach Mr. Miyagi. 😂

10/24/2017 - 13:02 |
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CS55

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10/24/2017 - 14:00 |
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TheBigLoser

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What is this, math class?

10/24/2017 - 14:55 |
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