Lanzante Is Working On A Bugatti Bolide That Is Road Legal

Lanzante gained notoriety for his projects, where he converted track-only supercars into road-legal vehicles. The last in the series is the Bugatti Bolide. Company boss Dean Lanzante confirmed that the Bolide has the right conversion DNA and that a road version is currently in the works.

“We are currently working on the Bugatti Bolide, which has some features taken from road cars. The engine will pass the emissions test. We have a lightweight transmission that is easy to use and built to a high level of quality. That car will have a lot of good things,” he said. It’s not about carbon and Alcantara; it’s about engineering, parts that allow the car to be driven on public roads without feeling like it’s a little endurance race.

As Lanzante said, earlier generations of track cars were often actually modified versions of road cars.

“Race cars used to be road cars, heavily modified for track use, and now many of these race cars are road cars. Some cars need preheating; others have a bump ignition mechanism, where you can only get about three starts before the battery dies. We bring them into our workshop, look at them, and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when it comes to conversion,” said Lanzante.

In other words, some cars are so focused on the track that conversion is almost impossible from a practical point of view. No one wants to bump start their $3 million Bugatti in traffic and have to explain, ‘No, no, it’s not broken…that’s how it’s supposed to work,’ while everyone else around them laughs at their seemingly poor life choices.

There’s no set timeline for the arrival of Lanzante’s road-legal Bolide, but when it does, it will stand out even in the rarefied company of Bugatti’s most radical creations. Turning one of the world’s craziest cars into something you can legally park outside a coffee shop is no small feat, and Lanzante seems determined to prove it’s possible.

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