Pipe dream

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

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.

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

Tamara Ivancova is 24 years old. She has already worked for the AlphaTauri and McLaren F1 teams, Aston Martin’s road car division, motorsport gods Prodrive, and now she’s dreamt up her own car company

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