A US collector just took delivery of arguably the most personal Bugatti ever built. The Mistral "Fly Bug" is a one-of-one Sur Mesure commission — Bugatti's bespoke personalization program — completing a four-car insect-themed collection that also includes a Veyron Hellbug, a Chiron Hellbee, and a Divo Lady Bug. It caps the W16 roadster era on a note that no other customer will ever replicate.
The dragonfly livery
Chief designer Frank Heyl and the Berlin-based CMF team spent hundreds of hours developing an elliptical graphic motif that shifts intensity from nose to tail, fading into the dark intake zones along the body. The paint — an exclusive shade called Dragonfly Blue — changes appearance with the light angle, moving from deep blue to near-black with a metallic shimmer that mirrors an actual dragonfly's wings. Even the Bugatti side badge is integrated into the pattern with millimeter precision so it doesn't interrupt the composition.
Bugatti Mistral Fly Bug
Inside, laser-perforated leather sits over an Alcantara underlayer, producing a layered 3D relief effect. The elliptical motif repeats on the door panels and — for the first time on this model — on the armrests. Pulling that off required a completely new approach to material cutting; a single millimeter of misalignment would break the visual symmetry.
The engine underneath all that art
Technically, the Fly Bug is unchanged from any other Mistral. That means an 8.0-liter quad-turbo W16 producing 1,579 hp (1,178 kW) and 1,180 lb-ft of torque, with a 0–60 mph time of around 2.4 seconds. In November 2024, a standard Mistral set a verified world record of 282 mph for an open-top production car at the Papenburg test track in Germany — per Top Gear.
The Mistral is the final road-going Bugatti to use the W16. All 99 production units were pre-sold at a base price of €5 million (roughly $5.4 million pre-tax at current rates) — per Wikipedia. The Fly Bug's actual Sur Mesure premium is undisclosed, as is standard for the program, but multi-car collections of this scale typically run well into eight figures.
What it means for collectors
No IRA credit, no dealer lot, no waitlist — this one is done. But the Mistral's significance goes beyond this single car: with the W16 now retired from road use, every one of the 99 examples becomes a fixed-supply artifact from a configuration no automaker is likely to revisit. For the collector who already owns three other bug-themed Bugattis, the Fly Bug is less a purchase and more a punctuation mark.
