Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Gets Art-Car Treatment with Arithmetic Flame Job

Bugatti has churned out countless one-off and limited-edition Veyrons—listing them all might double the length of this story—and the latest such rarity is a Grand Sport done up by artist Bernar Venet. We won't go much into the "why" regarding the car's conception; let's just say it's being displayed at the fancypants Art Basel event in Miami, and that (even absent the car itself) its creation probably wasn't inexpensive. That said, unlike most of the special Bugs, the Venet Veyron's theme doesn't directly involve adding more cost or rare materials to the underlying Veyron—we're looking at you, L'Or Blanc.  Venet's goal with his Bugatti project was to translate the engineering equations of Bugatti's brainiacs onto the bodywork of the car, in keeping with the self-referential nature of his paintings. Also, the equations reinforce the power of the car's engine and pay "tribute to the genius of technological science as well as the German know-how of automobile production." We think simply slapping the 1000-plus-hp Grand Sport's spec sheet across one of its flanks would have done an equally good job of conveying a sense of the immense engineering work that went into the car's design. Just driving the thing—spec sheet be damned—inspires no small degree of awe and respect for the team that made such a physics-bending conveyance possible. First Drive: 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse First Drive: 2011 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Feature: Scorching the Mojave Mile in a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport We're not the best art critics, but here's our car-world take on the Grand Sport Venet: To us, the orange arithmetic splashed across the front of the Grand Sport looks like a flame job as dreamed up by Albert Einstein. More interesting still, the front wheels are orange while the rears are black, which shows that Venet took the whole two-tone paint job thing pretty seriously. This same artistic rigor carries through to the Grand Sport's interior, where Venet splashed the equation-flame graphics across each door panel. There's no word of the Venet Veyron going on sale, only that Bugatti commissioned the artist to leave his mark on the Grand Sport. If we had to guess, though, this special car eventually will end up in some master of the universe's art and/or car collection. from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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