Bugatti rolls out another ‘Legends’ Special – the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Black Bess

It’s the Bugatti Veyron Black Bess

No, Bugatti hasn’t named their latest Legends limited edition car – the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Black Bess – after Dick Turpin’s horse (well, not directly anyway), but after the Bugatti Type 18 – dubbed Black Bess – which was the Bugatti Veyron of its day. Only seven Type 18s were built – between 1912 and 1914 – and just three remain, with the one dubbed Black Bess (which did get its name from Dick Turpin’s horse) on display in the Louman Museum in The Hague and complete with its 5.0 litre four-cylinder engine good for 100bhp and a top speed of 100mph.

The new Black Bess Bugatti is a Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse with 1184 ‘black’ horses, a 0-62mph of 2.6 seconds and a top speed of 233mph and comes with a carbon fibre body painted in black with gold highlights (and looking like a 1970s JPS F1 livery).

Inside there’s light beige and Havanna leather abounding with red steering wheel and red decorative stitching with the door panels featuring the Type 18 Black Bess and the Morane Saulnier Type H (a plane owned by Roland Garros, one of the original owners of a Type 18).

Bugatti want to relieve buyers of €2.14 million for a Black Bess, but they won’t have too much trouble doing that.

Almost all the ‘Legends’ cars have gone to existing Bugatti owners with pockets so deep they simply snap up the latest version to add to their collection. A bit like the rest of us adding to our toy car collection when a new model arrives.

The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Black Bess will debut at the 2014 Beijing Motor Show later this month

By Cars UK