The master of Molsheim

There is a small, thin air vent running across the top of each door of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport and, frankly, it’s rather disappointing. This is an otherwise exquisitely appointed cabin, drenched in the finest leather, shining with milled aluminium and finished in glossy carbon fibre. So I turn to the man in the other seat, who happens to be serial endurance race winner and Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace, and ask the question.

‘For a car costing this much, could they not have found something other than plastic for this vent?’ ‘Plastic?’ comes the reply. ‘No mate, that’s titanium…’