Bugatti unveils customized Grand Sport Vitesse on Pebble Beach weekend

Bugatti unveiled a special version of its Grand Sport Vitesse at the The Quail on Friday. The drop-top is meant to pay homage to the Type 37A, built in 1928. The original Type 37A won multiple Grands Prix and is now owned by Jay Leno.

The upper part of the show car is painted in what Bugatti calls Bianco, known to the rest of the world as white. The lower body gets a hue called New Light Blue to help distinguish it from all previous light blues. Finally, the interior is swathed in Cognac leather, an expensive shade of brown.

All the colors and surfaces come from Bugatti's customization program, which allows for any paint color and interior surface not forbidden by law.

For the few of you who haven't heard, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse is the drop-top version of the company's fastest road-going production car. It uses a 7.9-liter, W16 engine and four turbochargers to make 1,200 hp at 6,400 rpm and more than 1,100 lb-ft of torque. Top speed is rated at 255 mph, though it has been proven to go faster.

The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse costs $2,140,000.

Monterey car week is packed with car shows, vintage racing and auctions. Autoweek will be there providing streaming photo galleries and live coverage of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, historic racing at Laguna Seca, the Monterey car auctions and plenty more. Go to Autoweek's Pebble Beach homepage for complete coverage and live updates.

By Jake Lingeman