The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo wowed showgoers at this year’s Frankfurt motor show, occupying pride of place at the center of the VW Group’s massive hall.
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The project is the first concept car for which Sasha Selipanov, Bugatti’s head of exterior design creative development, has been given full credit for his work, and he was clearly very happy to have been acknowledged. Selipanov, who graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, has been working for the VW Group for over a decade — he started as an intern at VW’s California Design Center in Santa Monica the day Daniel Simon resigned. Why has he never been brought to the fore before?
Here are a few of Sasha Selipanov’s sketches for the Gran Turismo project:
This set of sketches are by Bugatti’s head of interior design, Etienne Salome:
The following sketches are by Bugatti’s head of exterior design production development, Frank Heyl:
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