The replacement of the supercar Bugatti Chiron will replace the W16 engine with a brutal V16 hybrid: this is what it looks like, in the video.

The replacement of the supercar Bugatti Chiron will replace the W16 engine with a brutal V16 hybrid: this is what it looks like, in the video.


There are few left for Bugatti to open a new page in its history: in June will be announcedIf everything goes as planned, your new creature. And it will not be the only one, as it will be the first to provide a way to transmit electricity.

He Chiron’s future replacementwhose production has already been completely sold, will be a hybrid hyperdeportivo of which few details are still known. As of today, yes, we know a little more, and it is not a “peccata minute.”

The award-winning Bugatti Chiron has enjoyed an impressive and powerful W16 engine for the past eight years, since it was launched in 2016. We already knew that its replacement would have hybrid mechanics, which made us think that the French brand would decide to “reduce” in the hot part.

Well, we were completely wrong, as Bugatti has confirmed that its future hybrid car, which should hit the road. 2026, it will have a V16 engine. The configuration has not been seen before but promises, once again, to continue to surprise fans of the Molsheim brand.

Bugatti Chiron is already a thing of the past: the French brand is already thinking about its replacement.

V16 mechanics, “rare aircraft”

Many details of what will be Bugatti’s first hybrid car are still unknown. Of its engine, other than its V16 configuration, We do not know its displacement, if it will be space, how many electric motors will be associated with it.

Some information and rumors They suggest that the engine would be made by Cosworth and that it would have a displacement of 8.3 liters. Others, that can increase the speed of up to 9,000 rpm to provide, with three electric motors, a combined power of 1,800 HP.

Let’s remember that the Bugatti Chiron that this new hybrid hypercar will replace only close to 1,500 HP with its W16 gasoline engine and that made it to 100 km/h from standstill in 2.5 seconds and up to 420 km/h top speed.

It’s all thought and compared to the engine that The setup is, to say the least, unusual. The last production car to feature such a thing was the Cizeta-Moroder V16T back in 1991; and going even further, the 1930 Cadillac V-16 was the first of its kind.

Some examplesYes, they have played and demonstrated this concept, such as Cadillac itself with the Sixteen in 2003, Rolls-Royce with the 100EX, Bentley with the Mulsanne or BMW itself with the Series 7 Goldfish.

The sound of Bugatti’s new V16 engine for its upcoming hybrid.

This is what Bugatti’s new V16 engine sounds like

Bugatti, as we said, has not given more details about this V16 engine, but it has left two very juicy breads. The first, a preview of the hybrid powertrain which the French brand is preparing.

“Incomparable in every detail, It is the embodiment of Bugatti’s DNAdesigned not only for the present, or even for the future, but forever». And secondly, a acoustic performances preview how the new V16 engine revs up in the video you have just above.

What is not in doubt at this point is that the new Bugatti car, whose design has been approved since the beginning of last year, promises to bring about a revolution in the brand, the market and, in the words of the new head of design, Frank Heyl, being. “even more amazing than Chiron. “It will be amazing, proportional, technological, in terms of innovation, in terms of the unexpected.”