Doug DeMuro: ‘Bugatti Divo Is One of the Greatest Cars In Existence’

Is the workaday Bugatti Chiron too common and boring for you? The hardcore Divo may be the $8 million answer.

So, you own a Bugatti Chiron. Naturally, you are taking it to your local track for some high-performance driving events. However, every time you go out, you end up having to give a point by to people driving Civics and Mustangs. It can’t be your driving; the problem must be the Chiron is just too damn slow. Lucky for you Bugatti has an answer. The Divo. Think of the Divo as a sort of Chiron RS.

It is not really a whole new model. It makes the same power as the regular Chiron. The Divo is all about weight savings, aero, and suspension. Everything it needs to make it faster around a road course. Now you can show that punk in the Civic Type R who is boss.

YouTube star Doug DeMuro gets his hands on one of these extremely rare Divo models. In his latest video he puts the Divo through the normal DeMuro treatment. If you are familiar with his videos, you know this means looking at the quirks and features of the car. As you can imagine, with a 1 of 40 car worth approximately $8 million there is no shortage of items to cover. Here are some of the highlights.

The Divo trades in the luxury trappings found in the Chiron for ultimate weight savings. Out goes the leather, and aluminum and in comes carbon fiber. Lots of carbon fiber. Bugatti also stripped out some of the electronics. This includes the curious decision to make the fore/aft adjustment of the seat a manual operation.

Grab a metal bar and scooch your butt forward or backward to get it where you want. In your $8 MILLION car. In any event, these measures allow the Divo to be 80 pounds lighter than the Chiron. On a racetrack every ounce counts.

From a styling standpoint the Divo has a lot more vents and creases compared to the Chiron to help better manage the air and increase downforce. Out back is one of our favorite style items and that is the rear lights. There are a series of squares and rectangles protruding from the back of the car. Some of the shapes light up red to form the lights.

When the turn signal is on, some of them turn orange in sequence to show the turn signal. “It looks so interesting and so weird and so cool. Definitely one of the coolest and most distinctive taillight designs in the car industry.” Says DeMuro.

Moving to the inside of the Divo you are immediately struck by how austere it looks compared to a Chiron. It is clearly extremely high quality, and the use of carbon fiber is extensive. However, it is so simple it almost looks like you are inside a car designed by the folks at Playskool. Bugatti kept things very simple and clean and there is a reason for that. Aside from saving weight they don’t want anything inside that could potentially age the car.

This is particularly true of the large media screens in many modern cars. DeMuro explains: “Bugatti wanted this car to be timeless, to age well. So, they didn’t want to put in a screen that was modern in 2020 but in 2050 when this is still a very special car, people look at the screen and just laugh at how outdated and stupid it looks.”

Staying on the indies for a moment DeMuro points out the two-tone interior. This is not a standard two-tone look where maybe the upper dash is one color, and the lower dash is another. No, this interior has one color scheme for the driver and another for the passenger. The driver gets a light blue color, and the passenger side is dark blue.

“The seats are a different color, the dashboard is a different color, even the sun visors are different colors.” Says DeMuro. The car certainly has a unique look to it, but how does the thing drive? Time to get this beauty out on the road.

We think it can be best summed up by this DeMuro quote. “All right I am gonna give it a little gas here… Oh my God. It’s so insane, that is one of the craziest automotive acceleration feats I have ever, it’s just instant and I looked down and I was going twice as fast as I thought.” DeMuro says it feels like a jet about to take off, it is that kind of power delivery.

Sadly, there is no track driving opportunity. Although, let’s be honest. Even though this is a track day special, we are willing to bet exactly 0 of the 40 Divos will ever set a tire on a track. It is a shame but most of these will spend more time driving over golf course greens than racetrack curbing.

At the end of the day DeMuro awards the Divo with the second highest “Doug Score” ever. Clearly this car is an impressive automotive achievement. Let us know what you think of the Bugatti Divo in the TeamSpeed forums.

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