Perridon's Bugatti Brouillard is delivered. His Bugatti museum is not
Bugatti's first Programme Solitaire car reached its owner thirteen months after The Quail
Michel Perridon took delivery of the Bugatti Brouillard on the lawns of the Château de Chantilly on Sunday 13 September, thirteen months after the one-off was revealed at The Quail in California. Mate Rimac handed it over, four days after completing the buyout that makes him Bugatti's president. By late afternoon the car had a Best of Show trophy, and the Rotterdam collector owned the first Programme Solitaire Bugatti ever finished.
Mate Rimac handed over the Brouillard at Chantilly four days after buying out Porsche
The handover took place during Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille, which drew close to 30,000 visitors to the Oise on 13 September. Perridon's own photographs from the day show Mate Rimac and design director Frank Heyl at the car. Porsche's sale of its 45 percent of Bugatti Rimac and 21 percent of Rimac Group closed on 9 September, so this was Rimac's first public handover as Bugatti's president rather than as Stuttgart's partner. The concours jury then gave the Brouillard Best of Show in the concept cars, restomods and one-offs class, next to a 1933 Delage D8 SS for pre-war and a 1956 Ferrari 410 Superamerica for post-war.
The Brouillard is a fixed-roof W16 Mistral with 1,600 hp and a horse in the gear lever
Underneath, the Brouillard is a W16 Mistral with a fixed glass roof and every body panel changed, painted metallic green over exposed carbon and sitting on black wheels. The 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 makes 1,600 hp, the strongest version of the engine Bugatti ever built, and the 99th and last series W16 Mistral left Molsheim in July. The name is Ettore Bugatti's favourite horse, a white thoroughbred that could open its own stable door through a mechanism Ettore designed for it. The cabin is trimmed in tartan woven in Paris, horse motifs are embroidered into the doors and seat backs, and the gear selector is a single block of aluminium with a glass insert holding a miniature of the bronze Brouillard that sculptor Paul Troubetzkoy made for Ettore.
Michel Perridon owns more than 30 Bugattis and once put Trust on Jos Verstappen's Minardi
Perridon made his money with Trust, the Rotterdam computer-accessories brand, and put its name on Jos Verstappen's Minardi in 2003. Quote, the Dutch business magazine that lists him in its Quote 500 with an estimated fortune of €385 million, has reported the Brouillard's price at around €20 million; Bugatti has never published one. The Perridon Collection, curated by Sjoerd Schepman, runs to more than 30 Bugattis, most of them pre-war, including a 1923 Type 32 Tank, one of five, and a Type 45 prototype, the first Bugatti with sixteen cylinders, one of two. The modern end holds three Veyrons, a Chiron Super Sport 300+, an EB110 SS on Dutch plates and a Rimac Nevera, so Perridon had already bought a car from the man who handed him the keys on Sunday.
Perridon's Bugatti museum has had three addresses since 2021 and no building
The museum is the promise the Brouillard was meant to sit in. In 2021 Perridon told Quote the collection would be shown in Rotterdam, then dropped the city after the mayor did not take up his invitation to tea, and moved the plan to Dubai. In November 2024 he told the same magazine it would be built in Molsheim, beside the factory, and that he already had a deal with Bugatti; Bugatti declined to confirm one. At the Brouillard's Dutch unveiling at Wheels Mariënwaerdt in September 2025 he called an official Bugatti museum next to the factory his next project. Bugatti's Molsheim announcements since, the 2,120 m² extension of 2023 and La Manufacture, opened on 2 July 2026 with capacity for 200 cars a year, mention no museum.
Programme Solitaire has revealed three cars in twelve months and delivered one
Bugatti caps Programme Solitaire at two cars a year, and it has shown three since August 2025: the Brouillard, the Veyron-shaped F.K.P. Hommage in January and the Bolide-based Destrier at Pebble Beach in August. The Brouillard is the first to reach a customer, thirteen months after its reveal. All three carry the 1,600 hp W16, which means the engine Bugatti retired in July will keep leaving Molsheim in ones for at least another year while La Manufacture fills with V16 Tourbillons.
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Perridon collected a trophy with his car on Sunday, and that is the easy half of what he has told Bugatti he would do. A Solitaire one-off at a concours is built to win the concept class; the jury was grading Bugatti's design studio, not its owner. The hard half is the museum. It has moved from Rotterdam to Dubai to Molsheim in five years without a foundation stone, and Bugatti has never said the word in public, not in its 2023 extension plans, not when La Manufacture opened in July.
What changed on 9 September is that Rimac can now answer without asking Stuttgart, which removes the excuse the Molsheim plan has sheltered behind since November 2024. Rimac has a new factory, 200 cars a year to sell and a customer with more than 30 Bugattis who wants to park them next door. If that partnership is not announced by the time the first Tourbillon is delivered at the end of 2026, the largest Bugatti collection in the world stays where it has been since 2021: in one man's garages, on show one concours weekend at a time.
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