The very last Bugatti Veyron will be shown in Geneva

Inside of a lengthy interview with Auto, Motor und Sport that dealt mostly with future Bentley products, Bentley and Bugatti chief Wolfgang Dürheimer said the 450th Bugatti Veyron will be at next month’s Geneva Motor Show. That’s a special number, seeing as it means the end of Veyron production after ten years, 300 coupes, and 150 open-air variants.

Six weeks ago the Molsheim company had space for eight more Veyron commissions, but it’s a good bet that all the stock down to this last car has been sold. Dürheimer wouldn’t say, but the hypothesis is that Veyron number 450 will be a Grand Sport Vitesse, the extra-go-fast targa with 1,183-horsepower erupting from its 16-cylinder engine.

The boss also tempered expectations as to when the Veyron’s successor will be shown, saying “it takes time to create a work of art” when asked if we’d see it in 2016. Dürheimer did say that it would be “even better,” which means it will probably travel even faster than the rumors around it, the last batch of hearsay bespeaking of something lighter than the Veyron, with 1,500 horsepower from a hybrid powertrain, and a top speed of 286 miles per hour. And that would be quite the start on the way to “even better,” as well as too much of a burden for any tires currently available on Earth.

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