Mille Miglia
Bugatti Veyron
by Luciano Vittori
Before a Tuscan villa, among cypresses and weathered stucco, stands the modern legend amid the classics: a Bugatti Veyron. It does not belong to the same century as the other works in this series — and yet it carries the same name of glory: Bugatti.
- TechniqueHahnemühle · Dibond
- Size100 × 75 cm
- EditionEdition of 24
- Price€995
The modern legend
When the Veyron appeared in 2005, it moved the boundaries of what a car could be. Volkswagen had revived the fabled Bugatti marque with a single brief: build the fastest, most refined production car in the world. The answer was an 8.0-litre W16 engine with sixteen cylinders and four turbochargers, good for around one thousand horsepower — enough to become the first production car to break the 400 km/h barrier.
The name is no accident. The car is named after Pierre Veyron, the French driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Bugatti in 1939. In this way the modern hypercar links directly to the marque's glorious racing past of the 1920s and 1930s, when Bugattis dominated the great circuits and hill climbs of Europe — a heritage that ran through the roads of the Mille Miglia era as well.
Luciano Vittori places the Veyron where engineering and time meet: the weathered Tuscan land that gave rise to the whole movement. The fresco treatment gives the polished coachwork the texture of old plaster — a tribute to the idea that a car of tomorrow, too, if great enough, will one day ripen into a classic.
