Bugatti Mistral review

Prices for the Mistral began at £4.2 million before tax and the stratospheric levels of personalisation on offer. But here’s why that’s a bargain.

For the mechanically identical World Record Car we tested, the owner paid £11.6 million. That’s quite an expensive certificate.

Also, when you buy a Bugatti you don’t just get a car. You get a driving lesson with Le Mans winner and official nicest man in the car industry, Andy Wallace. Yes, the same Andy Wallace who did 304.7mph in a Chiron Super Sport and 282.04mph in this very Mistral. He’ll teach you how not to apply your new toy vigorously to nearby scenery and has a bottomless well of improbable stories from a lifetime in motorsport and fast cars. Worth having.

You’ll also be treated to the tour of the Molsheim headquarters – the surgically clean factory, the orangery (yes, really) and the chateaux where Ettore Bugatti used to host dinners for prospective clients and decide whether or not to sell them one of his cars based on their table manners (or lack of). How times have changed…