The next Bugatti Rimac hypercar will have a powertrain that’s out of this world – this H๏τCars render speculates on the upcoming design.

Bugatti and Rimac teamed up, under the Bugatti Rimac brand, with Porsche and Rimac taking 45% and 55% respectively, to work on hybrid hypercars.

Rimac know a thing or two about batteries and electric motors, with the Rimac Nevera being evidence of its engineering prowess, and Porsche can benefit from the merger (they also have a stake in Rimac) as can Volkswagen Group, the owners of Porsche and Bugatti.

Mate Rimac, CEO of Bugatti Rimac, wants to keep the Bugatti brand partly electrified for the time being, conserving the beating heart – or part of it – of 16 cylinders that were so integral to previous models.

With that in mind, and considering Bugatti models like the Bolide, Divo, Centodieci and Mistral, H๏τCars artist Timothy Adry Emmanuel produces this exclusive render model of the upcoming Bugatti Rimac hypercar, a hybrid that will be the collective brand’s follow-up to the Mistral.

The first car, the Bugatti Mistral, is a roadster, and features an 8-liter W16, quad turbocharged engine with more than 1,500 hp. It will be the last pure internal combustion engined Bugatti, and the next will be a mind-blowing hybrid, of which the details are still a mystery.

As such, this render keeps all the intakes, scoops and grilles that you might ᴀssociate with a car that houses spark plugs and cylinders. A mid-engined setup would be likely, and the render features intakes for the motor which might turn out to be a 4-liter V8 hybrid (half of the W16), following trends for manufacturers to downsize and add electric motors.

Up front the dark blue hypercar’s first and only influence to other cars from either Bugatti or Rimac is the slotted nose, that seems to hide LED lamps and provide airflow to aid its aerodynamics and cooling. This seems like a direct influence from Bugatti’s own Centodieci. Behind the front wheels are more ducts and intakes; the car shares more in common with the track-exclusive Bolide than the Mistral.

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Bugatti’s Centodieci-inspired nose provides a lot of character to the render, which then seems to follow the track focus of the Bolide. Up back, there is a large diffuser, small twin spoilers and a grille section below the twin LED light units that seems to mostly share a little in common with the Bugatti Divo’s rear grille section.

Only 99 Mistrals will get made, and all got sold already at around $5 million each. A Rimac Nevera costs $2 million and only 150 will get made – it can reach 258 mph making it the fastest production electric car in the world. In comparison, the Mistral from Bugatti should have a similar top speed of around 260 mph.

The dark blue render from Timothy Adry Emmanuel shows how the next car could look, its bold design is something that Mate Rimac already alluded to in various interviews for the brand and so something this aggressively distinct could be entirely possible.