Bugatti restores a rare one-off Veyron by revisiting one of the most unusual design choices for the hypercar

This Bugatti Veyron is the latest La Maison Pur Sang product, and it’s a thing of beauty.

It was restored using an incredible paint option that’s quite rare and incredibly difficult to apply.

Actually, we probably shouldn’t call it ‘paint’ because it isn’t.

And if you live in Europe, there’s a small chance you may have seen this.

This is actually not paint

Bugatti completed a meticulous restoration on a one-off Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse originally ordered in 2014 and delivered in 2015.

It striking, mirror-like exterior isn’t paint.

It is made entirely of raw, polished aluminum.

Crafting its distinct bodywork originally required handling massive aluminum blocks weighing up to 20 tons.

A little over 10 years later, the owner decided to restore the vehicle partly because this particular color is unsurprisingly very brittle, but also because he wanted to reverse personalization elements and aftermarket changes accumulated over a decade.

Beyond its reflective metal body, the roadster features a contrasting carbon-fiber engine cover and a Carmine Red interior with exposed carbon-fiber accents.

It is powered by an 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W16 engine producing roughly 1,183 horsepower.

Bugatti operates under three distinct official programs

There’s some confusion these days because luxury brands often operate under a million different customization programs.

The French automaker has three: Sur Mesure, La Maison Pur Sang, and Programme Solitaire.

Sur Mesure was launched as a bespoke customization program (paint, trim, etc) during the ordering process.

Then there’s La Maison Pur Sang, which was created to restore and/or modify existing vehicles.

That’s the program that was used for the Veyron you can see here.

Then there’s the newly-launched Programme Solitaire.

With Programme Solitaire, the manufacturer allows you to build vehicles pretty much from scratch.

The Profilée and the Brouillard, for example, are both one-off hypercars built with Programme Solitaire.

This vehicle lives in the most supercar-friendly country in the world

There are probably four places in the world where the chances of spotting a Bugatti Veyron (or a Chiron) daily are actually quite high.

Florida, California, the UAE, and Monaco.

But the thing is, Florida, California, and the UAE are vast states/countries.

You may spot a Chiron in Beverly Hills, but you definitely won’t spot one on Skid Row.

That’s why, if I had to pick one, I’d say that Monaco is the most supercar-friendly country in the world.

As the crow flies, it takes only a minute or two to cross the country.

Even if you walked from the ‘Welcome to Monaco’ sign to the exit sign, it would take no longer than an hour depending on your pace.

Monaco has changed a lot through the years, and one of the main changes is that Place du Casino is now almost fully car-free.

Pictured below: this photo was taken from La Tête de Chien (French for ‘Dog’s Head’), a 550-meter-high cliff viewpoint located in the village of La Turbie, France, a stone’s throw from Monaco

Even so, you’re pretty much guaranteed to see at least a Chiron or a Veyron driving through at least once or twice a day.

Including this one, as it turns out.

The identity of the owner hasn’t been disclosed but the automaker did say the owner lives in the French Riviera, which, when a supercar like this is involved, almost automatically means Monaco.

But who knows, maybe this lucky owner lives in La Bégude-Rétract or Cap-d’Ail, which, by the way, literally translates to ‘Cape of Garlic’.