Here's How The Bugatti Divo Took Just Six Months To Develop

Bugatti has innovated the auto industry over the years, from setting speed records to changing how cars are designed. Most recently, theBugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+成为the first car in the world to break the 300-mph barrier, albeit in a non-production form. Bugatti has also been embracing 3D-printed components, becoming the first automaker to3 d打印钛尾气. Since 2016, Bugatti has increasingly relied on new virtual design processes with photorealistic 3D animations.

Half of the Bugatti Chiron's design was produced digitally, but this increased to 90 percent for theBugatti Divo. "With the Divo, we proved for the first time that we could use the digital design process to develop a breathtaking shape into an extraordinary vehicle that is ready for the prototype stage within just a few months," said Ahmet Daggun, Bugatti's Director of CAD and Visualization.

This would not have been possible in such a short space of time with traditional clay models. According to Bugatti, this virtual design process takes 50 percent less time than traditional methods while also cutting costs by around a quarter. VR data goggles also enable designers to see a realistic view of the virtual model.

Things were very different in the analog age. New vehicles were drafted in drawings, which were then transformed into 1:4 scale clay models. After gathering feedback, designers would then spend months tweaking the design of 10 different clay models before applying these changes to a new 1:1 scale clay model. Further changes would then be implemented before the final design was approved. Using virtual reality and 3D models, Bugatti now develops its hypercars faster and more precisely than ever before.