Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L’or Blanc: A Porcelain Bugatti?

The Bugatti Veyron has hands down been my favorite automobile since it was just a concept in almost 10 years ago. It’s an amazing work of machinery, and down right the most amazing car of the 2000s. 0-60 in 2.46 seconds, top speed of 253mph with the Super Sports nearing almost 270mph, and an interior you’d find in a Maybach. This last week of June however, was the last week of the sale of the “normal” Veyron; production has ended. That’s if the “normal” Veyron was normal to begin with. There’s still some Grand Sports and Super Sports to be asked for.

- Pictured Above: “Normal”

So like a middle aged man going into a mid-life crisis, what does the Volkswagen owned company do? Well you got get a partnership with a prestigious German porceilan company and ask “Hey, let’s make a car made out of fine china, ja?”

- Or knowing that the Bugatti company is based in France you say “oui?”

It’s not a joke, presenting the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport LOr Blanc, unvieled June 30th, 2011. Made by Bugatti and a company with a name that will be a God-send if I can type it, Königliche Porzellan-Manufatur Berlin (KPM is how it’s called and how IT WILL be called), it is the only car made with porcelin in the interior and exterior, yes the outside of the car, the last resort shell that is supposed to protect you in a crash. Now normally you wouldn’t ride in a rinky-dinky rollercoaster that is made out of swiss chesse, let alone a rollercoaster with a 1001 hp, W-16 engine. But now a 253 mph car – no wait – CONVERTABILE car made out of porceilain.

- “And a very nice paint job to go with the sound of car and bones shattering in a 253mph harmonious symphony of death.”

According to the article from NetCarShow.com, Bugatti claims that “Before their [KPM's] application to the car, the porcelain elements were extensively examined in regard to automotive safety and quality to optimally protect the passengers in case of an accident.” And then of course it had to be someone official to state that your gravestone will not be engraved with “died by having a shard of porcelian stabbed through the neck at 200mph” by saying, “Porcelain is one of the strongest materials but the grade of quality depends significantly on the excellence of the manufacturing process. We had to assure that the inlays perfectly fit to the filler caps, it has been a challenge for us to exactly calculate the shrinkage of porcelain,” says Thomas Wenzel, Head of Design at KPM. And they say the only thing made of porcelain is the inlays outside, the gas cap, and interior parts.

I’ll just keep watching this and I’ll stick with a regular Bugatti after working for 345 years in my current job.

- “Forget plates, let’s just smash the cars into the wall, oppa!”