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Podcast: How Bugatti's designer went from Skoda Rapid to really rapid

Bugatti’s Frank Heyl loves timeless styling, engineering supremacy - and listening to The Prodigy at 200mph

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by Felix Page

1 min read

16 August 2025

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Bugatti’s Director of Design Frank Heyl loves timeless styling, engineering supremacy - and driving 200mph while listening to The Prodigy.

In this special bonus episode of the My Week in Cars podcast, we meet the man who went from designing humble Skoda hatchbacks to shaping some of the world’s fastest and most expensive cars.

From Concorde to club beats, we find out what makes him tick, and learn exactly what goes into designing a £10 million, 250mph automotive artwork…

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Felix Page

Title: Deputy editor

Felix is Autocar's deputy editor, responsible for leading the brand's agenda-shaping coverage across all facets of the global automotive industry - both in print and online.

He has interviewed the most powerful and widely respected people in motoring, covered the reveals and launches of today's most important cars, and broken some of the biggest automotive stories of the last few years.