Tennessee couple with matching Chiron Super Sports found out just what goes into a personalized Bugatti
- A couple decided to match their Bugatti Chiron Super Sport supercars
- However, the custom paint job wasn’t straightforward
- A lot more goes into the customization than you’d think
Published on Sep 30, 2024 at 8:00 AM (UTC+4)
by Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Last updated on Sep 26, 2024 at 10:17 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
Two lucky US owners of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport decided to pimp their supercar pair with a custom paint job.
Little did they know that this customization would take far longer than they’d anticipated.
Hailing from Tennessee in America, the married couple bought ‘his-and-hers’ supercars.
When they decided to switch up his paintwork to match hers albeit in a different shade, they found out that changing a bespoke Bugatti Chiron Super Sport takes longer than you’d think.
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Repainting the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport
Turns out that modifying the husband’s German-French hypercars by repainting it to match his wife’s alongside other custom touches would take seven months.
His spouse had opted for a personalized shade and he wanted to upgrade.
However, this new livery takes longer than you might expect.
That’s because every single Bugatti is unique.
Any changes to these individual designs require a lot of accuracy and even more time – as well as being transported from the US across the Atlantic back to the factory in France.
The Molsheim-based company has a dedicated Bugatti ‘Sur Mesure’ (‘To Measure’) team for designing and crafting every single detail the customer asks for with sub-millimeter accuracy.
First, the body panels are taped before individual layers of paint are applied by hand.
The process is repeated until the result is flawless by a dedicated master painter.
He worked exclusively on the customization for four weeks.
Once the coloring stage is cleared, a clear coating is applied until the paintwork.
This makes the shade brighter and more vibrant.
This energy is reflected in shade names such as the red-orange shade of her car: ‘L’Aura’ (‘The Aura’).
The new ‘Coup de Foudre’ (meaning ‘Stroke of Lightning,’ or ‘Love at First Sight’) shade he opted for was complimented with handcrafted door panels and two-tone wheels in ‘French Racing’ blue.
Additional touches
The seven-month project also required replacing several original body panels.
He had opted for visible-carbon-fiber ones.
In addition, the ‘old’ hood, roof, engine lid, and rear wing (which were as near as you can get to brand new), were thrown away, and new ones were fitted.
To install the Sky View roof he wanted, the cockpit cover was detached from the monocoque entirely.
The interior also had to be stripped to prevent dust from tainting it.
The panels were finally realigned with such precision that the exposed carbon fibers would fall perfectly in place as a continuous flow.
Rather than looking like a modification, post-personalization it looked like a brand new car.
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All Supercar Blondie contributors undergo editorial review and fact-checking to ensure accuracy and authority in automotive journalism. After gaining her BA Hons in French and English at the University of Nottingham, Amelia embarked on a vocational diploma from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ). This led to numerous opportunities, from interning at Vogue to being on the small team that launched Women’s Health magazine in the UK, which was named the PPA Consumer magazine of the year for three years running. As Health, Beauty and Fitness editor, Amelia personally received a Johnson & Johnson Award and was shortlisted for both PPA and BSME titles. Since then, Amelia has created content for numerous titles and brands, including the Telegraph, 111 Skin, Waitrose, Red magazine, Stylist, and Elle, as well as being Head of Content at Vitality and Editor in Chief at INLondon magazine. “My superpower is translating technical jargon about the mechanical workings of a supercar into a relatable story you’ll want to share with your friends after you’ve read it.” After joining the SB Media family as a senior journalist in September of 2023, Amelia’s role has evolved to see her heading up the SEO output of the editorial team. From researching the most ‘Google-able’ key terms to producing evergreen content - it’s been a time of hard work, growth, and success for the editorial team and the Supercar Blondie website. “I like to think of myself as a ‘method journalist’. In other words: I live and breathe whatever I am writing about. When writing about fitness, I trained as a personal trainer, and as a beauty editor, I completed an ‘expert’ in scent diploma with the Fragrance Foundation. “During my tenure at Supercar Blondie, however, I did something I never thought possible: I passed my driving test at the age of 36. One day I’d love to train as a mechanic to better understand what happens under the hood, too. “My sweet spot is providing readers with a ‘takeaway’ (read: something new they didn’t know before) after reading every one of my stories. While I don’t claim to be an expert in the automotive world, I know the experts and bodies in the field to rely on to provide our readers with an informative and thought-provoking story every time they visit the site.”
