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Bugatti Rimac Is Officially In Business, With An HQ In Croatia And Mate Rimac As The CEO

Four months after the official announcement of the marriage between Bugatti and Rimac, the “Bugatti Rimac” joint company is officially in business, with its headquarters in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, and Mate Rimac undertaking the CEO role.

Despite the new joint venture, both Bugatti and Rimac will continue “to act as independent brands” retaining their production sites and sales channels. They will keep offering different vehicles, although jointly developed models are planned for the future. Mate Rimac said: “I am very excited to see what impact Bugatti Rimac will have on the industry and how we will develop innovative new hyper sports cars and technologies. It’s hard to find a better combination for new and exciting projects”.

The complex shareholder structure of Bugatti Rimac involves Porsche, Hyundai, Rimac, and other investors.

The Rimac Group holds the majority stake in the new venture with 55 percent of the shares, and Porsche AG is holding the remaining 45 percent. Thus, Mate Rimac, founder and CEO of Rimac Automobili became the CEO of Bugatti Rimac, while the supervisory board includes high-ranked officials from Porsche AG – Oliver Blume (chairman), and CFO Lutz Meschke (deputy chairman, CFO).

Stephan Winkelmann who has been Bugatti’s president since January 2018 and Lamborghini’s president since December 2020, will now focus on the latter role as Chairman and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. After his term in Bugatti leading to the automaker’s most successful year, Winkelmann said: “I would like to thank the entire Bugatti team and our customers for three and a half unbelievable, exciting, intense and successful years. Together, we have developed fantastic hyper sports cars and led Bugatti into a new dimension”.

Christophe Piochon who was the Managing Director of Production and Logistics at Bugatti, is now the new President and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in Bugatti Rimac. In his first statement under the new role, he said that Bugatti will keep their independence and continue making handmade vehicles at the Molsheim Atelier in France, securing all jobs in the historic location.

Other changes in the high-ranking positions include Hendrik Malinowski who is the Managing Director responsible for Sales and Marketing in Bugatti, Larissa Fleischer who is leaving Porsche AG to become Chief Financial Officer of Bugatti Rimac, and Emilio Scervo who is Chief Technology Officer of Bugatti Rimac after undertaking similar roles in McLaren and Rimac Automobili.

A total of 435 employees will work for Bugatti Rimac, with 300 located in Zagreb, Croatia, and 135 in Molsheim, France. An additional 180 employees will be working for the joint company from the Wolfsburg development site in Germany.

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This Bugatti Chiron Set On Fire In Miami Will Be A Very Expensive Fix

A red and black Bugatti Chiron allegedly owned by Dominican recording artist El Alfa suffered extensive damage from a fire while parked in a garage in Miami. Two videos posted on Instagram by supercar.fails show the aftermath with the burned Chiron sitting next to a black Ferrari that was not affected by the fire.

The Chiron will need a new bonnet, fender, wheel, tire, driver’s side door, and window, as all the aforementioned parts have huge black marks from the fire. We believe that the French hypercar will need a lot more than a simple paint job to get back in original condition, with the high temperatures melting glass, rubber, carbon fiber, and plastic parts in the affected area. Thankfully someone managed to extinguish the fire before the whole car and its surroundings burned to crisp.

There is no official information on the incident but, according to the post, this was no accident and it was purposely set ablaze by someone. The Chiron starts from a cool $2.9 million plus options, and we are sure that the repairs will be costly. As a reminder, the hypercar is fitted with a quad-turbo 8.0-liter W16 engine producing 1,479 hp (1,103 kW / 1,500 PS).

Watch Also: YouTuber Lord Aleem’s Bugatti Chiron Involved In Mother Of All Fender Benders

While we can’t confirm that this Chiron belongs to El Alfa, a car with the same specification is appearing in a music video from February 2021, and in many of his Instagram posts. El Alfa also owns a bright blue Rolls-Royce Cullinan that happened to be a shooting target a few weeks ago. Thankfully, in both cases, there were no injuries reported.

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H/T to The Supercar Blog

$85,000 Ferrari Engine, $6,000 Bugatti Veyron Speed Key: It’s Amazing What You Can Find On Ebay

It’s difficult (and likely impossible if you’re under 25) to remember how much more complicated buying and selling stuff was before eBay came along.

Just think, right now on your desktop or phone you could, at the touch of a button, buy a charging cable for your iPhone, sell your obscure collection of garage band records, and find a new owner for your bizarre gullwing door, stretch limo Dodge Challenger.

Or even buy a set of Speedline wheels from a rarer than rocking horse poop Ferrari F40 LM. Honestly, the amount of rare groove parts available for exotic cars is mind-boggling. Here’s just a taste of what was live at the time of writing.

Ferrari

Here’s a 458 Speciale engine, the most expensive Ferrari item listed that isn’t an actual car. The final incarnation of Maranello’s naturally aspirated V8, it made 597 hp and revved to 9,000 rpm.

The entire Speciale only cost $298,000 when it was new, but these days the cars change hands for upwards of $400,000, and you’ll need to part with $84,980 just to bag this motor. Still, $100k all in and you could have the world’s first Speciale-powered Miata.

Moving into the turbocharged era, how about a brand new set of carbon fiber wheels? I seem to remember Ferrari wouldn’t even let us try these on the road loop at the press launch because they were so worried we would trash them. If you’ve trashed yours, you can pick up this brand new, boxed set for $27,500.

Sticking with the carbon fiber theme, this seller claims to be offering a set of carbon engine bay panels for a Ferrari 812 Superfast (though we’re not sure the car in the picture has them). They can be yours for $13,546, and no, that doesn’t include the engine. If you want a V12 to go with it, you’ll need to throw in another $60k.

It’s not often you read a description for a car part and come across the line “Fits the following models: 250 GT 2+2, 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso, 250 GTO” like we’re talking about a set of Ford Focus brake pads. But that’s what it says in the listing for this brand new, no-longer-available-from-the-factory Ferrari V12 crankshaft. A mere $18,256 takes it.

Rolls Royce

For $35,000, this haul of Rolls Royce parts provides the bumper, hood, grille, lights and fenders you’d need to put a wrecked Wraith or Dawn back on the street. Or maybe it’s crying out for some nut-job to bolt it onto the front of a Chrysler 300 and really rile those up-tight Brits.

No wonder Rolls-Royce makes those Spirit of Ecstasy mascots retract below the hood line when you try to grab them: a traditional silver winged lady could cost you $3,250, and someone’s trying to sell a black one for over $7k.

So you backed your Bentayga into your Cullinan while doing some rearranging of your 24-car garage, need a couple of headlights but are too mean to buy new ones from your local dealer? No problem when you’ve got an eBay account. Getting our heads around the $16,000 bill for this pair of used LED lamps is definitely presenting a problem, however.

It’s a Rolls Royce V12, but not the kind you’re thinking. Incredibly, this $12k, 27-liter monster is one of two RR Meteor engines built to power military tanks in the last century currently available on eBay.

Bugatti

Yes, you can even find parts for a Bugatti on eBay, including an entire carbon fiber rear bumper for a Veyron, on offer at $14,285. The same company (ATD Sportscars) also has a rear fender ($12,855), hood ($8,650), and front bumper ($7,135), in case you really did make a real mess of leaving that car show.

Inserting this second ‘Speed’ key in the Veyron added 40 mph to the Bugatti’s top speed, so it must be worth at least an extra 30 mph if you wire it into your Supra’s console, right? You can buy it for $5,999, and for another $6,999.99 you can have the ignition key to go with it.

We’ve owned plenty of actual cars that cost less than this official Bugatti indoor car cover, but we guess if you can afford to drop $1 million on a sunny-days supercar, you probably wouldn’t think twice about spending $3,000 to keep the dust off its pristine paint.

And finally, a pair of Veyron’s distinctive engine cover grilles is up for grabs. The seller is asking $1700 for each one. We’re hoping someone buys both and glues them to the back of a Fiero.

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Mini Bugatti Centodieci Carved From Wood Is Pretty Close To The Real Thing

Bugatti will build just 10 examples of the Chiron-based Centodieci with prices starting at €8 million ($9.7 million) a pop, meaning very few will ever have the opportunity to see one in the flesh. A Centodieci model made from wood is even rarer.

This Centodieci model was created by YouTuber ND – Woodworking Art who has a wealth of experience creating scale models of real-life vehicles out of wood. This isn’t some pint-sized model like a Hot Wheels car either and is comparable in size to the ride-on vehicles made for young children.

The 17-minute video details the entire build process of the car, starting out with the wooden chassis before the craftsman behind this stunning creation cuts the wheels and carves them with simple hand tools. Work is then done on the propulsion system which takes the form of a small electric motor powering the rear wheels.

With the model up and running, the difficult task of crafting the complex bodywork begins. Bugatti really went to town on the exterior design of the Centodieci to ensure it looks significantly different than the Chiron. By using nothing more than a small chainsaw, the YouTuber was able to mimic the same overall shape of the Centodieci before using a chisel and a hammer to refine and perfect the design. The model is so accurate and has been so well made that it even features a fully functional interior carved entirely from wood.

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