1999 Bugatti Veyron concept by Walter de Silva

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RikimaruRamen@reddit

That front end gotta be in the top 10 goofiest looking front ends of all time

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This is a fantastic take on the cars Bugatti was making in its glory days. It's white-hot sexy by 1930s standards and was definitely informed by the 1990s's blobby design language. Like everyone else though I'm glad they dialed it back and cleaned it up.

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jauhesammutin_@reddit

It looks like a cheap 90s cd player boom box.

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Bamres@reddit

It looks like a cool mouse from before gaming mice were popular

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Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit (OP)

Well, it is a Walter de Silva design, some of the best designs of the last 20 years were penned by his hand, judging by the sketches i think the request here was "design a body to fit these engineering requirements, and make it inspired by the Bugattis of old", in which it succeeded, but indeed its best that Bugatti went with the more modern design of Jozef Kabaň in the end, the production Veyron has aged remarkably well.

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essoterica@reddit

To be fair, once you're at the manager/director/head of design level in a car design studio, other people do the 'penning'. He's more of a conductor while others play the instruments. He may be credited with 'designing' a bunch of cars but his hands-on work ended decades ago.

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Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit (OP)

At the time he was responsible for the SEAT design division, yeah, its possible he was mostly the manager of the design.

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essoterica@reddit

From the Bugatti sketches that look to be signed 1999 I'd say he was out of practice for a while already. Those read like someone who is very rusty getting back to it.. Interesting about his son, I wasn't aware.

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Busterlimes@reddit

It looks like a Jaguar that got stung by a bee

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wasabi1787@reddit

Honestly the back end looks cool as heck. If the headlights weren't so close together (I get that's a vintage throwback) it'd be a lot more cohesive looking. Otherwise, I like this a lot (ok the color isn't quite right for the car either, but that's the Bugatti classic so that's a pass)

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noxondor_gorgonax@reddit

I know the 90's gave us some questionable design choices, but what the fuck???

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Cerveza_por_favor@reddit

I unironically love it

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noxondor_gorgonax@reddit

Give me the Ford GT90 concept any day over this one

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nik4idk@reddit

Hot wheels golden arrow

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Interesting_Pop3388@reddit

Stupid round front lights fashion from late 90s-early 00s.

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Armored_Guardian@reddit

I really like the front end, the way it tapers to a point

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6425@reddit

First time I’ve ever seen the final production car look better than the concept.

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lasskinn@reddit

This is a different concept i think, technically.

Many of them try to capture(really turn it to 11) the roof from the pre ww2 bugattis more or less.

Though i think this is the first 2 seater concept maybe? Of the vw bugatti anyways, they had some horrible looking more sedan style concepts first.

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_Spare_15_@reddit

Then he copied the nose design and created the Seat Salsa the following year.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAT_Salsa

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Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit (OP)

...which eventually became the Seat Leon

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magnuman307@reddit

You mean the veyron was always this ugly?

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Appropriate_Cow1509@reddit

Veyron if it was a vw beetle kit car

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PobBrobert@reddit

I’ve never really thought about this way before, but the Veyron is like the final form of the Beetle.

Beetle > 911 > Veyron

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MoreThanComrades@reddit

Well Veyron isn’t rear engined, so I’m not sure it quite fits

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Crazywelderguy@reddit

Moving to mid engine was just the next evolution.

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MoreThanComrades@reddit

So the final evolution of the beetle is accepting that it should seize existing as a concept entirely? Work.

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PobBrobert@reddit

I mean the A5 and New Beetle were front engine FWD

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Crazywelderguy@reddit

Considering rear engines is ... Not bad, but suboptimal, yes.

Bob Akin, legendary Porsche racer and team owner allegedly said of the 911, “You can’t make a racehorse out of a pig, but if you work at it, you can make a mighty fast pig.”

Porsche has carved out a niche having perfected the rear engine layout over the decades. But all of their truly hypercar and top tier racing vehicles have been mid engine. And there is a reason no one else has tried to replicate rear engine for high performance cars.

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