---
title: "CEO Sets Bugatti Sedan Rumor Mill Spinning (Again)"
description: "Or maybe Bugatti will do an electric car! Or maybe just keep teasing us for years!"
date: "2016-03-02"
modified: "2021-05-18"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/2420/ceo-sets-bugatti-sedan-rumor-mill-spinning-again"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "bugatti"
  - "Chiron"
  - "sedan"
---

# CEO Sets Bugatti Sedan Rumor Mill Spinning (Again)

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It's a vexing question: How do you follow up the debut of a car as fast, expensive, and totally bonkers as [the 1,500 horsepower, 260-plus-mph Bugatti Chiron](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/2378/the-2017-bugatti-chiron-might-break-your-brain>)? According to the company brass, the answer might be a sedan.

“I can’t get the idea for a four-door limousine out of my head,” Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer admitted during a Geneva Motor Show interview. “It’s one of the options we might look into again as a possible next project.”

Bugatti loyalists will note this isn't the first time the brand has discussed building a sedan. Back in 2009, the Franco-German automaker showed off the 16C Galibier, a chunky, front-engine four-door with a twin-supercharged version of the Veyron's 8.0-liter W-16. The Galibier would've made more than 1,000 horsepower and topped out north of 235 mph—had it gone into production as originally planned. Instead, the concept loitered around the *concours* and auto show circuit for a few years, then quietly slipped into oblivion in late 2013.

Dürheimer also tells *Bloomberg* that Bugatti might consider some sort of alternative-fuel vehicle, though his remarks were vague as to whether that'd be a pure electric car or some sort of a hybrid. Bugatti vetoed hybridizing the Veyron due to the added weight of the motors, he said, but “that doesn’t mean we abandon this topic forever."

When asked about a Bugatti SUV, Dürheimer's answer was short and to the point: "No."

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

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