Bugatti’s official story is that the seed of the Veyron was planted in 1997. VW Group boss Ferdinand Piëch and his powertrain chief Karl-Heinz Neumann were on a Japanese train brewing up engine ideas.

Either someone just collapsed a wormhole in the spacetime continuum and bunched up the past 20 years, or Bugatti is messing with our tiny little minds. Turns out it’s the latter, because if you though

TopGear: We heard that many years ago you had sketched a ‘Veyron facelift’ that never came to be. Is that true? Tell us the story. Frank Heyl: Yes, there was an inbetween stage. We were working on the

Bugatti has unveiled the FKP Hommage, a one-off hyper-GT that, according to the company’s design chief, has been conceived as the “ultimate Veyron” in tribute to the groundbreaking model. The new car

WHEN YOU TURNED THE PAGE DID YOU, JUST FOR A fleeting moment, think you were looking at a Bugatti Veyron? A Veyron but different somehow; a little sharper, a little more modern. Almost like a facelift

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew TOPGEAR’S BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT