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SUNSET RIDER

You need not watch a single Western film to understand the visual metaphor of the hero riding off into the sunset. Once their work is done, the story concludes, and they leave the audience behind as the sun recedes and the screen fades to black. Sometimes they ride off slowly; other times they charge off into the unknown. When your story’s hero is the 2022 Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, the last of its kind, racing into the sunset at 273 mph is the only way to go out.

After all, this is as much a goodbye as it is a hello. The Super Sport is a new twist on the Chiron formula that’ll keep Bugatti craftspeople busy for years, but it’s also the end of the line. With the company’s controlling stake sold to electric supercar startup Rimac, the Super Sport is

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