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Porsche has divested its stakes in Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Group, earning approximately \u20ac1 billion from the transaction. Abu Dhabi-based BlueFive Capital acquired a 30% share in Bugatti Rimac directly, becoming the second-largest shareholder and securing a board seat. This move underscores the UAE's strategic shift towards direct ownership and influence within the global hypercar manufacturing industry.<\/p>\n This summary was generated by AI using this article\u2019s content.<\/small>\n\n Porsche and Bugatti are two legendary brands in the auto industry. One perfected the everyday sports car over generations. The other spent decades treating the laws of physics as mildly inconvenient suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, nearly five years after Porsche and Rimac Group established Bugatti Rimac, Porsche has officially ended its direct ownership involvement with Bugatti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche previously owned 45% of Bugatti Rimac, with Rimac Group holding the remaining 55%. Porsche also owned a separate 21% stake in Rimac Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A consortium led by HOF Capital has now acquired Porsche\u2019s holdings in both companies. BlueFive Capital, the consortium\u2019s largest investor, purchased 30% of Bugatti Rimac directly from Porsche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes BlueFive the second-largest shareholder in Bugatti Rimac after Rimac Group. The Abu Dhabi-based investment manager will also receive one seat on the board and two observer seats, giving it influence beyond simply providing capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BlueFive Capital was launched in November 2024 and already manages more than $15 billion in assets. Its Bugatti Rimac investment forms part of a broader consumer strategy focused on businesses with powerful brands, defensible market positions and long-term growth potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bugatti certainly fits the description. It possesses more than a century of heritage, produces exotic cars in tiny numbers and maintains enormous pricing power among the world\u2019s wealthiest collectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are very few manufacturers capable of charging several million dollars for a car, limiting production to a few hundred examples and still having customers discuss bespoke paint before asking for the final invoice. Bugatti is firmly in that club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The UAE has long been one of the natural habitats of the hypercar. Bugatti Veyrons, Chirons, McLaren P1s and Porsche 918 Spyders are genuinely seen on public roads here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local collectors have helped turn limited-production cars into cultural events, often commissioning specifications that become famous far beyond the Emirates. However, the relationship between the UAE and the global supercar industry is now evolving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BlueFive Capital\u2019s acquisition brings Abu Dhabi directly into the ownership structure of the company behind Bugatti, one of the most recognised and valuable names in automotive history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For years, the UAE made automotive headlines through the cars parked outside its hotels, displayed in its showrooms<\/a> and at its enthusiast events. Increasingly, those headlines concern capital, technology, manufacturing and corporate ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BlueFive\u2019s 30% stake also comes with a board seat and two observer seats. That gives an Abu Dhabi-based company a meaningful voice as Bugatti Rimac enters the Tourbillon era and develops its long-term product strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hypercars are still here, thankfully. The big difference is that UAE companies are increasingly gaining influence over what hypercar gets built next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not Abu Dhabi\u2019s first major move involving a globally recognised performance-car manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CYVN Holdings completed its acquisition of McLaren Automotive in 2025, along with a non-controlling stake in McLaren Racing. The investment was intended to provide McLaren Automotive with greater financial stability and support its next stage of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CYVN has also invested extensively in NIO and helped establish NIO MENA. Those plans included an Abu Dhabi research and development centre focused on artificial intelligence and autonomous-driving technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These investments suggest that the UAE wants a larger role across the automotive value chain. That includes vehicle sales and ownership, but also finance, research, advanced technology, manufacturing and corporate strategy. The UAE\u2019s automotive influence is becoming considerably harder to describe using showroom sales alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ettore Bugatti founded the company in Molsheim in 1909, building elegant road cars and dominant racing machines such as the Type 35. Production faded after the Second World War, before Italian businessman Romano Artioli revived the marque with the EB110 in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volkswagen acquired Bugatti in 1998 and funded its most ambitious era, producing the 987hp Veyron and 1,479hp Chiron. In 2021, Bugatti was taken over by the newly formed Bugatti Rimac joint venture, owned 55% by Rimac Group and 45% by Porsche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche has now sold its stake to the HOF-led consortium. Rimac Group retains control, while BlueFive Capital holds 30% and other consortium investors own the remaining 15%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche and Rimac Group established the Bugatti Rimac joint venture in 2021. Rimac Group took a 55% majority stake, while Porsche owned the remaining 45%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The arrangement brought the historic French hypercar manufacturer together with Mate Rimac\u2019s rapidly growing Croatian technology company. At the time, the pairing seemed almost improbable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bugatti had built its modern reputation around massive combustion engines, exquisite craftsmanship and top-speed records. Rimac had emerged from an electric BMW E30 project to develop some of the most advanced EV powertrains in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rimac brought expertise in batteries, electric motors, software and high-performance electric powertrains. More importantly, it had already demonstrated that electric cars could deliver performance dramatic enough to interest even stubborn petrolheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rimac Nevera broke 23 performance records in a single day<\/a>, including a 0-400-0km\/h time of 29.94 seconds. It produced 1,914hp and 2,360Nm from four electric motors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the joint venture, Bugatti retained its identity, headquarters and production base in Molsheim. Rimac supplied the electrification knowledge required to carry that identity into a new generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche describes the transaction as another step towards focusing on its core business. Selling the two stakes will generate proceeds of approximately \u20ac1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of that amount, \u20ac250 million will be used to further fund Porsche\u2019s pension obligations. The transaction is also expected to lift its projected 2026 Automotive Net Cash Flow Margin from 3-5% to 5.5-7.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Selling a non-core investment gives Porsche additional financial flexibility while it continues spending heavily on new vehicles, combustion engines, hybrids, electric models, software and battery development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The completed transaction strengthens Mate Rimac\u2019s strategic and operational control over Bugatti Rimac and Bugatti Automobiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mate Rimac remains CEO of Bugatti Rimac and will additionally become President of Bugatti Automobiles. Christophe Piochon will step down as Bugatti President and Chief Operating Officer of Bugatti Rimac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new structure places Mate Rimac more directly in charge of Bugatti during one of the company\u2019s most important transitions. <\/strong>Marko Brklja\u010di\u0107, formerly Chief Operating Officer at Rimac Technology, will join the Bugatti Rimac leadership team as COO. Current Bugatti Automobiles Managing Director Hendrik Malinowski is expected to become the brand\u2019s Chief Commercial Officer. Further leadership changes are also planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mate Rimac must now protect the theatre, craftsmanship and mechanical drama expected from Bugatti while integrating the technology that made Rimac globally relevant. Bugatti customers tend to welcome innovation, provided it arrives wrapped in carbon fibre and accompanied by an engine capable of propelling it into the stratosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche\u2019s departure simplifies a complicated ownership relationship involving Porsche, Rimac Group and Bugatti Rimac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rimac Group remains the majority shareholder in Bugatti Rimac, while the new investment consortium introduces fresh capital and institutional backing. BlueFive becomes the second-largest shareholder with its 30% position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Rimac Group, the transaction strengthens Mate Rimac\u2019s long-term vision while providing new financial partners for the costly task of developing hypercars, batteries, electric powertrains and advanced vehicle technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porsche is not in immediate financial distress. It ended the first half of 2026 with \u20ac7.3 billion in automotive net liquidity and generated more than \u20ac1 billion in automotive net cash flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the company is working through an expensive strategic realignment. Global deliveries fell from 146,391 cars in the first half of 2025 to 122,306 during the same period in 2026. Revenue declined by 5.1% to \u20ac17.23 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Operating profit improved to \u20ac1.35 billion, helped by tighter cost control and Porsche\u2019s value-over-volume strategy. Even so, turning minority investments into approximately \u20ac1 billion gives Stuttgart additional room to manage its own transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any conversation about modern Bugatti ownership must return to Volkswagen. The Volkswagen Group acquired the Bugatti name in 1998 under Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ambition was magnificently excessive: build a road car with 1,000hp, four turbochargers, 16 cylinders, all-wheel drive, and a top speed beyond 400km\/h. It became one of the most technically ambitious projects ever undertaken. The result was the Bugatti Veyron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The original Veyron\u2019s 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 produced 987hp and 1,250Nm. It could accelerate from 0-100km\/h in approximately 2.5 seconds and reach 407km\/h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The later Veyron Super Sport increased output to 1,183hp and recorded a top speed of 431.072km\/h in 2010. It pushed production-car performance into territory previously reserved for racing machinery and highly optimistic conversations between engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Veyron was enormously complicated and expensive to develop. Yet that was partly its appeal. Volkswagen had demonstrated what its engineering empire could achieve when commercial restraint was given the afternoon off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chiron arrived in 2016 with 1,479hp and 1,600Nm. It retained the 8.0-litre quad-turbo W16 while making the entire package faster, stronger and more refined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chiron Super Sport 300+ later became the first production-based car to exceed 300mph, reaching 490.484km\/h during Bugatti\u2019s record attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRead Next<\/h4>\n
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What Changes For Mate Rimac & Bugatti Leadership?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Does Porsche Need The Money?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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