If you’ve ever gone and and built a car that you can’t afford from an online configurator, you’re not alone. You can usually spec the car out exactly to your liking down to the colour.
A colour choice you’ve likely never seen before is Rape Yellow. That’s right, Rape Yellow is actually an available colour from Bugatti.
Um. What?
If you’re offended by this, don’t blame Bugatti because it actually is a real colour, they didn’t make it up. There’s a yellow flower called Brassica Napus in Latin. When translated into English, it’s actually called the Rape. The flower is useful as it gets repressed into oil for everyday use.
Since “rape oil” doesn’t quite have a positive connotation attached to it, we obviously just call it canola oil. But Bugatti, it seems, is quite happy to keep the colour as its original name, despite the controversial nature of it.
If you’ve ever been raped, chances are you probably won’t opt for a colour that reminds you of the unfortunate event every time you drive your car, so Bugatti might be well advised to change the name. It’s just common sense, and for that you get a FAIL, Bugatti.
Canola Yellow doesn’t sound quite as bad.
[Bugatti]