Bugatti has just released a teaser on its website Wednesday showing as part of the "Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo," a virtual car that the company is designing for Polyphony Digital's Vision "Gran Turismo" PlayStation game. It will be unveiled next month at the Frankfurt Auto Show.


Bugatti is just one of the biggest names in the auto industry that is confirmed to participate in the game. What is interesting about the teaser, however, is that it could give a hint as to the new supercar that Bugatti is working on. 

"We had the clear goal of developing a vehicle which could also be driven on a real race circuit if it left the virtual world," Achim Anscheidt, head of the Bugatti design team, said in Bugatti's press statement introducing the virtual car. "'Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo' stands for authenticity." This is fueling speculations that the virtual car will contain design philosophies that would characterize Bugatti's next supercar.

Bugatti will discontinue manufacturing its Veyron supercaras HNGN previously reported. The company is calling this an end to an era, which will supposedly pave the way for the introduction of the new Chiron hypercar. Sightings of the Chiron prototype has been reported in Auto Evolution, but it is still unconfirmed. The design language is promised to be in the "new form" and is expected to top its legendary predecessor.

Meanwhile, here is what Bugatti president Wolfgang Dürheimer said in the press statement about the company's participation in the "Gran Turismo" project:

"Bugatti is the world's most exclusive super sports car brand and Bugatti cars are only available to an extremely small group of automobile connoisseurs. At the same time Bugatti is admired and loved by countless people throughout the world. We highly appreciate this enthusiasm. The 'Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo' will make our brand available to them as well as to gamers and high-performance aficionados throughout the world, only very few of whom will be able to afford a real Bugatti."