Can't Afford The $5.8 Million Bugatti Divo? You Can Still Drive It.

Can’t afford the $5.8 million Bugatti Divo? You can still drive it.

- Brett Berk

Before this year, supercar manufacturer Bugatti had released only two vehicles in the 20 years since it was revived by the Volkswagen Group: the 1,200- horsepower, $2 million Veyron and the faster, more powerful $3 million Chiron.

In August the company brought out a third car, the Divo. The track-focused menace is barnacled with strakes, ducts, and spoilers worthy of a Mad Max battlewagon, and it leers from a pair of scimitar-shaped LED headlamps. Producing 1,500 horsepower from its quad- turbocharged 16-cylinder engine, it’s capable of 2.5-second runs to 60 mph and reaches a top speed of 236 mph. Each of the 40 vehicles produced cost $5.8 million; they all sold within 24 hours.

Bugatti’s Divo was officially unveiled at the lavish Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, an annual classic-car bacchanal for wealthy collectors. But it was released simultaneously to gamers on the mobile racing app CSR Racing 2.

With 73 million downloads, CSR2 is the top-grossing racing game in the U.S. and more than 120 other countries. Players around the world compete in its signature drag races, going head-to-head or playing against a computer AI driver, using the device’s motion sensor to steer.