Bugatti Vision GT Hyper Sports Car

The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo is a 2015 show car developed jointly by Bugatti and Polyphony Digital — the studio behind Sony's Gran Turismo PlayStation racing-simulator franchise. Bugatti unveiled the full-scale show car at the IAA 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show on 17 September 2015 (running through 27 September), and a virtual playable version arrived in Gran Turismo 6 shortly afterwards. The LEGO® 77253 set is the first physical-or-digital model the brand has produced of the concept.

Visually the Vision GT was Bugatti's homage to the Type 57G 'Tank' — the streamlined Bugatti racer that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Bugatti in 1937 (Jean-Pierre Wimille and Robert Benoist) and again in 1939 (Wimille and Pierre Veyron, the man whose name went on the 2005 hypercar). The Vision GT wears a two-tone blue livery that directly references the 1937 Type 57G winner. Bugatti's then-design lead Achim Anscheidt and his team — Sasha Selipanov, Etienne Salomé, and Frank Heyl — designed the car as a deliberate stylistic bridge between Bugatti's pre-war race history and its Veyron/Chiron-era hypercar future.

Mechanically the Vision GT is a static show car with a fictionalised drivetrain spec for use inside the Gran Turismo simulator: an 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 engine derived from the Veyron/Chiron family, an Xtrac-derived seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, all-wheel-drive, and an in-game top speed of approximately 447 km/h (278 mph) on a virtual Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe. The car has never been engineered for road or track use; only the show car exists physically.

The Vision GT is the conceptual ancestor of the 2019 Bugatti Divo (a customer-facing track-focused Chiron derivative) and the 2019 Centodieci tribute (modelled by LEGO® 77240) — Anscheidt's team has spoken openly in Bugatti Newsroom interviews about the Vision GT being the design study that unlocked the more aggressive aero language that the Divo and Centodieci adopted.