The biggest element the Hunaudieres and Veyron had in common was also the biggest thing they had, period — both vehicles had enormous, overclocked W16 engines. Both cars also had smooth silhouettes, almost without the vents, dents, and scoops common in hypercars of the time. Each car was also of an age: According to The Car Connection and Autoblog, the Hunaudieres debuted as a concept at the Geneva Auto Show in March of 1999, while the first concept car to use the Veyron name appeared in Tokyo in October of the same year.
The similarities aren’t an accident. The Bugatti Veyron and Bentley Hunaudieres, plus the strikingly similar Audi Rosemeyer that Motor1 rightly commemorates, are the vehicular equivalent of triplets separated at birth. Bugatti, Bentley, and Audi are all just brands, after all, different marques belonging to a single company — the Volkswagen Group.
The Hunaudieres, Rosemeyer, and Veyron represent Volkswagen trying different spins on what they were sure was a winning core design: a distinctively styled, ludicrously powerful hypercar to end all hypercars. In the end, the Bugatti-branded build was the one that came to market, but in a slightly different world, it could have been Bentley or even Audi that reinvented the wheel for 21st century motorheads.
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