TOO FAST FOR PAINT, SAYS BUGATTI...AND OTHER NEWS

CHIRON TOO FAST FOR PAINT

The carbon fiber body of the 2017 Bugatti Chiron will go without paint for at least the first year of production, the automaker reports.

"It's just too fast for the paint," said Bugatti spokesman Victor (pronounced "Veek-tor") Oneandateux.  During high speed testing, the paint blew right off the car, landing in very expensive little flakes on the track, which then had to be vacuumed up, he said.  

When asked why paint sticks to 600 mph jets but not the $2.5 million, 1500-horsepower supercar, Oneandateux threw his éclair at us and snarled, "Aller loin imbécile et me laisser seul!"

We don't know what that means, but with the word imbécile in the sentence, it probably isn't nice.  

BugAtti IS A REALITY -- WE HAVE PROOF!

Despite Volkswagen Group's denials, rumors about the existence of a smaller, less-expensive Bugatti called the BugAtti stubbornly keep popping up across the auto blogsophere.  

Recently, while visiting Hardshell, West Virginia, Parksplug reader Augie Constable photographed a prototype BugAtti that was parked at Hoist Castle, the former home of Prenable J. Flogoat, the man who coined the term Lightning Round.

Parksplug reader Augie Constable says he photographs only in black and white
because it "underscores the emotion manifested in the subject matter." Dork.
 

Little is known about the BugAtti (or Flogoat, for that matter) including which engine will power the two-tone roadster and whether it's built upon Volkswagen's MQB platform, which underpins pretty much every freaking thing in VW's portfolio save the Neoplan Cityliner tour bus.  

Hoist Castle is closed on Sundays.