Can you truly say that this rendering of a Bugatti Bolide gone rally car comes as a surprise? After all, the first week of 2021 has seen our social media feeds being flooded with images of the ludicrous 911 that is Singer's All-terrain Competition Study, as well as by various news from the Dakar Rally.
Admittedly, Porsche has plenty of history with rally cars and Zuffenhausen's efforts of the sort also include Dakar victories, while Bugatti's racing years didn't involve jumping over sand dunes.
Nevertheless, everything is possible in the rendering realm, with the work that now sits on our screens possibly sitting as far from the actual Bolide as this is from its Chiron starting point.
To build the Bolide, the French automaker did what many aficionados had only dreamt of: it stripped off a Chiron and added extra power, thus ending up with an 1,825 horsepower track toy (as the road-legal incarnation of the McLaren P1 GTR has shown, there might be a conversion kit bringing the Bolide to the street, but this possibility is another story for another time).
Now, if you're wondering about a potential Dakar inspiration for this project, all we know is that Yasid Oozeear, the digital artist behind the contraption, released the first renderings as a late Christmas present.
However, the pixel master has now returned with a second set of images, and the ride height of the contraption appears to have shrunken a bit; keep in mind this is an imagination exercise rather than a machine actually designed to go off-road, so that ground clearance could be easily increased at any given time.
Meanwhile, there's a spare wheel thrown into the mix. Hey, this feature could always be a nod to the victorious pre-war racecars of the French carmaker. The only contemporary Bugatti to sport such hardware is the Baby II, the official quarter-size replica of the Type 35 that made the brand famous in the 1920s.
Update:The artist has decided to lift the Bolide after all. And while he was at it, the pixel master added a set of tracks, which naturally led to certain body changes, which you'll find in the third Insta post below (the title of the story has been changed to reflect this extreme incarnation of the vehicle).
Nevertheless, everything is possible in the rendering realm, with the work that now sits on our screens possibly sitting as far from the actual Bolide as this is from its Chiron starting point.
To build the Bolide, the French automaker did what many aficionados had only dreamt of: it stripped off a Chiron and added extra power, thus ending up with an 1,825 horsepower track toy (as the road-legal incarnation of the McLaren P1 GTR has shown, there might be a conversion kit bringing the Bolide to the street, but this possibility is another story for another time).
Now, if you're wondering about a potential Dakar inspiration for this project, all we know is that Yasid Oozeear, the digital artist behind the contraption, released the first renderings as a late Christmas present.
However, the pixel master has now returned with a second set of images, and the ride height of the contraption appears to have shrunken a bit; keep in mind this is an imagination exercise rather than a machine actually designed to go off-road, so that ground clearance could be easily increased at any given time.
Meanwhile, there's a spare wheel thrown into the mix. Hey, this feature could always be a nod to the victorious pre-war racecars of the French carmaker. The only contemporary Bugatti to sport such hardware is the Baby II, the official quarter-size replica of the Type 35 that made the brand famous in the 1920s.
Update:The artist has decided to lift the Bolide after all. And while he was at it, the pixel master added a set of tracks, which naturally led to certain body changes, which you'll find in the third Insta post below (the title of the story has been changed to reflect this extreme incarnation of the vehicle).