Bugatti has unveiled the W16 Mistral Blanc Éternel, a single, one-off car built by its Sur Mesure personalization division together with the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM), Germany’s royal porcelain manufacturer. The project reinterprets the Veyron L’Or Blanc from 2011 and stands as one of the last cars ever built around Bugatti’s legendary W16 engine.
The Mistral carries the familiar Bugatti hypercar hardware: an 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W16 producing 1,600 hp and 1,600 Nm of torque, sent through all four wheels. Bugatti quotes 0 to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and a top speed above 420 km/h. As an open-top speedster, the Mistral has no roof or B-pillar, leaving the W16 engine visible in the tail.
What sets the Blanc Éternel apart is the porcelain. Genuine porcelain, fired and finished by KPM, appears throughout the car: on the EB emblems, the fuel and oil filler caps, trim pieces in the engine bay, the gear selector, speaker surrounds, and the armrests. The white body is finished with hand-painted black lines that trace the car’s digital surface geometry, a detail meant to expose the design process on the exterior itself.
Blanc Éternel exists as a single example and marks one of Bugatti’s last special editions built around the W16 before the brand moves on entirely to the Tourbillon, its new hypercar built around a naturally aspirated V16.
