1999 Bugatti Veyron concept by Walter de Silva
    
        Posted by Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit | WeirdWheels | View on Reddit | 45 comments
Posted by Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit | WeirdWheels | View on Reddit | 45 comments
the_joyous_giggler@reddit
The EB1/4
RikimaruRamen@reddit
That front end gotta be in the top 10 goofiest looking front ends of all time
No-Entrepreneur7167@reddit
o 0 o
CrimFandango@reddit
If Sonic the Hedgehog was a car.
anotherkeebler@reddit
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.
jauhesammutin_@reddit
It looks like a cheap 90s cd player boom box.
Bamres@reddit
It looks like a cool mouse from before gaming mice were popular
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.
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.
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.
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.
Busterlimes@reddit
It looks like a Jaguar that got stung by a bee
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)
noxondor_gorgonax@reddit
I know the 90's gave us some questionable design choices, but what the fuck???
Cerveza_por_favor@reddit
I unironically love it
noxondor_gorgonax@reddit
Give me the Ford GT90 concept any day over this one
nik4idk@reddit
Hot wheels golden arrow
Interesting_Pop3388@reddit
Stupid round front lights fashion from late 90s-early 00s.
Armored_Guardian@reddit
I really like the front end, the way it tapers to a point
6425@reddit
First time I’ve ever seen the final production car look better than the concept.
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.
_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
Chevy_Monsenhor@reddit (OP)
...which eventually became the Seat Leon
magnuman307@reddit
You mean the veyron was always this ugly?
Appropriate_Cow1509@reddit
Veyron if it was a vw beetle kit car
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
MoreThanComrades@reddit
Well Veyron isn’t rear engined, so I’m not sure it quite fits
Crazywelderguy@reddit
Moving to mid engine was just the next evolution.
MoreThanComrades@reddit
So the final evolution of the beetle is accepting that it should seize existing as a concept entirely? Work.
PobBrobert@reddit
I mean the A5 and New Beetle were front engine FWD
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.
bigalindahouse@reddit
That rear window view is beautiful. Reminds me of the split window stingray.
Null42x64@reddit
This looks like thoses car shaped wireless mouse that you find on shops that seels phone cases
poo-cum@reddit
Weird as hell, but I think it looks fantastic. I wonder if we're going to see a return to the bug-eyed and rounded design language of the turn of the millennium soon. I love circular headlights, I'm so bored of angry anime eyes.
gankindustries@reddit
If they had kept the sculpted protruding headlights and grill like in the concept, I would have liked it a lot more. But I suspected it had to be smoothed out for aerodynamics. I still like it though.
bubbleddusty@reddit
I feel like the only bad part is that front end though, I really dig everything that’s behind it, but like those harry melling looking headlights… god no
bubbleddusty@reddit
I feel like the only bad part is that front end though, I really dig everything that’s behind it, but like those harry melling looking headlights… god no
BiggerDamnederHeroer@reddit
Anyone know if or how this intersected with the final design? There are definitely some commonalities.
anotherbigdude@reddit
Contrary to most concept cars, the production model of this is WAY better.
maybeonmars@reddit
Those sweeping air-intakes are wild!
I like it
burner94_@reddit
When your inspiration is an absolutely TIMELESS 1930s/40s torpedo, but instead due to the pontoon construction of modern cars you end up with a pufferfish. °o°
Infernal-Majesty@reddit
Thank god this didn't make it.
ScottaHemi@reddit
:o the car
SillyTheGamer@reddit
ew
PointyDogElbows@reddit
Well at least he tried.