Find a Tango Style in the Bugatti Veyron Fbg Hermès
The Bugatti Veyron Fbg by Hermès demands acquiescence to the rhythm of this curious tango, propelling you into a parallel world of carbon fibre and aluminum, while at the same time holding you back. Above all, you are mesmerized by this sense of speed, no longer proud and wild, but tamed by the mere touch of the bodywork. Has speed found a sister, an accom-plice? Suddenly, it seems, speed dives into the cockpit, casts off her warlike countenance, confers her favour upon your mount, arrays herself in its colour, the colour that extends throughout, even to the nape of your neck. The sensation is so extraordinary that even the engine’s noise takes on the quality of sound.
Speed is subsumed. Speed becomes a quiet child. She, too, sits curled on your knees. Her mechanistic posturing, her screeching, her technological power, her whinnying cries are left outside. Fine things in themselves, no doubt. But the hood was put there for a reason: the mechanics of speed should stay hidden, gone to ground, the better to concentrate their strength.
This car, seemingly sprung from nowhere – part super-hero roadster, part rounded beach pebble – has a long history. Now Hermès and designer Gabriele Pezzini have taken it by surprise, giving it a new line, new gestures: smoothing the shell and cockpit, relaxing the driver’s seat, softening the doors and the steering wheel, “branding” the radiator grilles. The virile racer becomes the perfect gentleman, fast-moving yet calm and composed.
But this car’s greatest strength is its ability to make you feel like a child again (a somewhat boisterous child, admittedly). Its thrilling growl brings a smile to the lips. Better still, its irruption brings with it your unforced “Ah!” of amazement, a new poetics of surprise.
