Bugatti Mistral: gawp at this one-off version of the world’s fastest convertible

The Bugatti Mistral is officially the world’s fastest convertible automobile, having clocked 282mph back in 2024. How then, do you elevate such a machine? Largely, this: it’s the Mistral ‘La Perle Rare’.

As with every Bugatti ever built, it’s a ‘one-of-a-kind’, conceived back in 2023 when Bugatti met the owner of this W16 record-breaking leviathan for the first time. Over the next couple of years, they’d go back and forth to realise that owner’s ambition.

It is, says Bugatti, “a fitting, pearlescent tribute to the elemental power and beauty of the W16 Mistral”. A car of this magnitude naturally needs such hyperbole and purple prose, but considering it’s one of the last outings for that 8.0-litre, it’s all gravy.

It’s essentially a two-tone, with varying shades of white and layered with metallic flakes. The gold dividing lines were then hand-painted onto the Mistral’s carbon fibre body panels, while the alloys were covered with a “specially curated paint mixture” too.

You’ll have to make sure your footwear isn’t specially curated with the outside world, because it’s all white inside, with highlights including machined and polished aluminium trim bits.

“This W16 Mistral ‘La Perle Rare’ is an extraordinary example of what becomes possible when a client’s imagination meets the full creative and technical capabilities of our Sur Mesure offering,” said Bugatti customisation boss Jascha Straub. How would you spec yours?