SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THESE

If ever there were roads least suited to a hypercar, here they are. The ribbon of tarmac that stretches ahead is littered with an assortment of lumps and bumps, with some sections of bitumen having crumbled away altogether. The snaking route is also so narrow in parts that there’s just enough space for two cars to pass in opposing directions without rubbing shoulders.

In this rustic and remote setting, the €5 million (a mental R100 million plus taxes) Bugatti Divo seems as out of place as a great white shark prowling in your neighbourhood park pond. Yet, there’s history at play in far-flung Floriopoli, about an hour out of Palermo, Sicily. This is the scene where the Divo’s almost-century-old ancestor, the Type 35, recorded some of its most memorable triumphs. Undoubtedly one of the most instantly recognisable