Following an earlier report in January Volkswagen Group boss, Dr Martin Winterkorn has confirmed the four-door luxury Bugatti Galibier won’t be going into production.
Winterkorn went on to add the company will instead focus on a replacement for the Veyron. “The Galibier is officially dead. We won’t do it. In its place will be a second-generation Veyron with more power,” he confirmed to Autocar.
So strap yourselves in as the next few years become a speculation-fest on just how ridiculous to headline horsepower figure in the Mk2 Veyron will be. Place your bets, do I have any offers above 1500hp?
[Source: Autocar]
3 replies on ““The Galibier is officially dead””
Galibier would be a crap name for a car.
I’ve cycled the Col du Galibier, and I can assure you that (a) it is no place for a massive sports saloon like the possible Bugatti and (b) only a bike should be named after the legendary Col and not a car.
You don’t want to cannibalise those Phaeton sales.
Entirely the opposite, the whole sales strategy of VW/Audi/Porsche/Skoda/Seat/Bugatti/Lamborghini group revolves around putting a different logo and a couple of new panels on what is otherwise the same car to flood each segment of the market with as many cars from the group as possible.