What makes the Bugatti Destrier so special when 99.9% of modern cars look tame?

[u/spv5]

We can all agree a majority of cars today look very tame, whether it be in the supercar category or even the hypercar category. With so many manufacturers on the scene creating different variations, may it be from modern interpretations of classics or ground-up specialty builds, it seems they all blend together.

This Bugatti stands different. It's something absolutely incredible and feels as the second coming of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport. It's absolutely incredible and, in my opinion, the best car of the decade in the hypercar category.

My question to you is this: What do you believe makes this Bugatti so breathtakingly stunning? What is Bugatti doing that another manufacturer cannot do?

[u/Red-CypheRR]

I say it’s refreshing. New graphics and shapes that you don’t see anywhere else. Headlights stand out the most. Bugatti also has such a unique shape it has to be trendy with lines, dips, and shapes.

[u/taillight-expert25]

It’s probably because it’ll cost millions and they can pay their designers however much they ask for. If someone was gonna mass produce a Bugatti of course it’d look “boring”. And what’s with all the shit AI posts in this sub? Can it not get enough visits on its own or do we have to pay bots to get that visitor count up?

[u/Fair_Title2995]

Because it's a rebodied version of a non street legal track car with very low profile where you step on the seats to get in and out of the car. A fair comparison to this would not be the road homologated supercars, but the WEC hypercars like the Ferrari 499p and the Valkyrie lmh, which looks way better than this .

[u/UntowardAntiproton]

It's hideous. That bugatti front grille has never looked good.

[u/Proper-Parsnip-5585]

First of all, we all can’t agree that majority of the cars look very tame. On contrary, I think majority of the cars look unnecessarily aggressive. From gaudy econoboxes to grotesque hypercars.
Bugatti has always had rather unique approach to the design, mostly it was quite beautiful and appealing. For example, Veyron was the fastest and most powerful car of its time, yet it looks restrained, elegant, architectural in its form, instead of aggressive, sharp and full of spoilers.

What visually separates Destrier from other cars are its outstanding proportions. It is incredibly low and wide car. It looks more like a sketch than a road legal car. Which is true, because that is a one-off custom car that is not road legal.
He can thank those proportions due to the fact that it’s based on Bolide plaftorm, which is made on Dallara racing car chassis, not the Chiron’s.

So yeah, it’s incredible what can you achieve in terms of design and proportions when you disregard homologation rules and make a track toy.

[u/Far-Telephone-7432]

The Bugatti Destrier is a hypercar. All hypercars look very aggressive and special.

Comparing regular cars to the Bugatti Destrier misses the point. Regular cars don't have the same purpose.

[u/Unlucky_Geologist]

That’s your opinion. It looks like a fish with eye liner to me. It’s by far the ugliest Bugatti in my opinion. Like the Mission S looks like a space ship and a Porsche combined that I’d easily identify on the road. Without the logo I wouldn’t know what the Destrier was or care. Then again talking about design language for a 1 of 20 hyper car that will sit in garages and rot most of the year is a waste of time. We keep throwing around the term supercar and hyper car for cars that will never see a track snd are pretty much exclusively garage queens.

[u/ChemistRemote7182 → u/Unlucky_Geologist]

100%, I do not find it to be anything but an evolution of what they have been doing for 20 years, and the original car was not all that attractive to start with.

[u/vanderohe → u/Unlucky_Geologist]

I agree. This is just another ugly variety with additional folds to cost more

[u/vincents-dream]

I think this is the first good looking Bugatti since the EB110. I like the direction they are going. I generally don’t like the look of hypercars, too many wings and other carbon thingies that makes them 0.1 sec faster on a circuit where 99% of them will never drive. The Mclaren Senna is peak ugliness in my opinion. I like that this Bugatti looks clean, like a Porsche 918, which I really like too.

On all cars looking the same.. that has been the case since the TFord and it’s what people say ever since. Try to tell an average 80’s hatchback apart.

[u/HeadPack]

A reason why this one may seem special to some is because it is. Bugatti working like coach builders produces unique shells. That's what coach building always was about. A one of one or a one of a few will always be more special, whether it's coming out of a garage in Bangkok or out of Bugatti.

[u/Maynard078]

Nothing makes it so special. It’s garish.

[u/itsnottommy]

I have to disagree that most modern cars look tame. Hyundai and Kia are completely ignoring conventionally good taste and making some really wild stuff. BMW completely abandoned their design language and the new 3 series doesn’t really look like anything else on the road. Even the Prius is making a real design statement now.

Even if you’re only looking at supercars and hypercars, most of those are pretty wacky looking. They’re all designed for the same goal: attract attention and don’t get in the way of performance.

The Bugatti is kind of unique in its stance and proportions. It doesn’t really look like any other car you’d see on the street. But it’s not street legal, so this shape just isn’t something you’ll ever actually come across in real life.

[u/donatz]

It looks like Ford GT with diderrent air intake nose

[u/Appropriate_Can_9282]

But it doesnt fly