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Cold Comfort: How Bugatti Forged a 1,578-HP Hypercar With a Heart of Porcelain

The one-off Bugatti W16 Mistral 'Blanc Éternel' features structural components made from a material famous for its fragility. A deep dive into the science of advanced composites and a 15-year partnership with KPM Berlin reveals how delicate porcelain can withstand the fury of Bugatti’s final W16 masterpiece.

At the heart of the latest one-off Bugatti, the W16 Mistral ‘Blanc Éternel,’ sits an object of profound contradiction: a gear selector crafted from pure, cool-to-the-touch…

This audacious fusion of high art and high performance is not without precedent. As Bugatti’s own archives recall, it was fifteen years ago to the day that the Molsheim atelier…

The new Mistral is a far more integrated and profound exploration of the theme. Its very name, ‘Blanc Éternel,’ is a carefully chosen double entendre, evoking, in Bugatti’s words,…

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The one-off Bugatti W16 Mistral 'Blanc Éternel' features structural components made from a material famous for its fragility. A deep dive into the science of advanced composites and a 15-year partnership with KPM Berlin reveals how delicate porcelain can withstand the fury of Bugatti’s final W16 masterpiece.

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