The Bugatti Chiron’s Aura Must Be Experienced to Be Believed
“Wanna get away?” It’s a legendary tagline recently revived by Southwest Airlines, but I think those words would be more appropriately tied to the new Bugatti Chiron. Recently at the Petersen Automotive Museum I got to see the Chiron for the first time in the flesh. Pardon my schizophrenia, but I think it spoke to me when I locked eyes with its LED headlamps. The words the Chiron whispered were, “Wanna get away?”
Indeed, I wanted the Chiron to be my getaway car. As I gazed into its blue-tinted carbon fiber bodywork, the devil hovering over my left shoulder was instructing me to dive into the car’s red interior, drive the hypercar through the glass of the Petersen Museum’s first floor, and make a beeline for the border.
As I write this, I am neither in Mexico nor in prison. It would appear the angel’s advice prevailed. Still, I need to find a way to be rich enough to afford this car’s $2.6 million asking price. For that money, you’re getting more than just a 1,500-horsepower hypercar — you’re getting an art gallery headliner that, like the Mona Lisa, has an aura about it.
Right now the Bugatti Chiron is the headliner to promote the new Art of Bugatti exhibit at the Petersen Museum. Bugatti’s latest hypercar will be available for your viewing and drooling pleasure until early November, but the rest of the exhibit will be on display all the way through the fall of 2017.
The Art of Bugatti exhibit gathers of some of automotive history’s rarest cars for one of the most memorable museum experiences of your life. From the 1935 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic and the Type 41 Royale to Bugatti’s more recent hypercars like the 1994 EB110 Super Sport Le Mans and the exact 2012 Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse I drove during Monterey Car Week in 2015, get your eyes ready to devour a savory platter of Bugatti metal and carbon fiber.
Find more information on the Art of Bugatti exhibition or the Petersen Automotive Museum by visiting www.Petersen.org or calling (323) 930-CARS.
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