Bugatti hyper-ute made for Australia
HSV’s Maloo might be gone, but this wicked Chiron hypercar-based ute keeps the faithIf you’ve ever wondered what an uber-lux Bugatti ute would look like, you can stop wondering.
That’s because designer Rain Prisk has delivered a new take on the Bugatti Chiron hypercar – one simply described as “Bugatti Chiron for Australian market” – that takes a similar idea to the one that drove the team behind the gone-but-not-forgotten HSV Maloo and amps it up to the hypersphere.
There’s no detail accompanying this wild render, and you can bet your bottom dollar it’ll never come to life. But we love it all the same.
The front-end is Bugatti Chiron through and through, but the com-gen wizard has erased the French supercar’s aero-laden rear-end and replaced it with a more useful tray that can clearly carry plenty of tools, materials and, for the weekend warrior, a couple of dirt bikes.
We’re not sure exactly how the Chiron’s quad-turbo 8.0-litre W16 engine will be packaged on this super-long-wheelbase hyper-ute platform, but with an incredible output of 1103kW and 1600Nm, it’d certainly be a tradie’s delight and an awesome drift machine.
And it’d obliterate the record the HSV Maloo GTS set in 2014 for the world’s most powerful factory ute when it was revealed with GM’s supercharged 6.2-litre LSA V8 good for 430kW.
This isn’t the first time the Prisk has concocted a wild Bugatti. In 2018, the creative Estonian delivered a 4x4 Raptor-like Chiron <>, with a rooftop luggage cage, huge off-road rubber and plenty of underbody protection.
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