Bugatti Galibier on hold
The four-door 'family' supercar has been shelved temporarily because it lacks power, says new Buggati chiefNew Bugatti boss, Wolfgang Durheimer, has put Bugatti's much-hyped four-door super sedan on hold because it's not yet an "argument stopper," sources have admitted.
A decision will be made later this year about the Galabier's future after Durheimer posed some tricky questions to Bugatti's engineering team about comfort, interior space and performance, sources said.
The concept car originally proposed 800 horsepower as the target figure, and it is understood Durheimer is less than satisfied with that output.
"In his opinion," our source confirmed, "There should not even be a question about the best car in the world when you sit down to discuss it with your billionaire buddies.
"He doesn't want to build it until it's the car that finishes the argument, not the car that starts it.
"Right now, it's definitely not enough (power) and it needs more space and comfort, especially in the rear.
"It's 800 horsepower now, but there are tuners today who can give you that and we don’t want our car to be involved in any discussion that involves tuners, so we have to move the benchmarks."
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