PH exclusive: Bugatti Veyron photos
PH scoops early pics of 1000bhp monster
Bugatti Veyron undergoing final testing
PistonHeads has scooped these exclusive pictures of the Bugatti Veyron. This astonishing 1,000bhp car has had a difficult birth.
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Designed to be the world's fastest road car with a top speed of 252mph and a 1,000bhp engine to make it so, it has undergone a seriously troublesome development process. Much of the problem has revolved around squaring the circle of huge amounts of power generating huge amounts of heat -- and how to get rid of it while not adding too much to the drag co-efficient, which then demands more power to overcome it.
Other issues the company has had to overcome include the unavailability of road tyres to suit such a high top speed, and stability and durability problems. And that's before anyone asks non-technical questions such as "Why?" -- to which the answer has to be, in Dylan's words, "Just because".
Many thanks to Sebastian Giesler for the images.
alanc5 said:
Surely if they can wring 1000+ BHP out of a Skyline it shouldn't be that much trouble for a car actually designed to accomodate that kind of power?
Plus, it looks like a big fat heffer, I much prefer the slimline look of the Enzo.
But anyone can make a 1000bhp skyline that needs a rebuild every 5000miles.
Even PFF Porsche tuners admit to their 700bhp engine conversion for the 911 Turbo not lasting too long.
The Veyron has undergone all the tests any other VAG car undergoes, winter and extreme low temp running, extreme high temp running, arduous conditions testing and long service intervals etc.
So it has 1000bhp, but it won't melt if you get stuck in traffic or need 1000 mile services or engine re-builds everyday.
It should be as handy as owning a Murcielago really.
Amazing piece of engineering, glad they've done it just to show the other supercar makers how so much can be put into so little.
Compact, reliable, everyday 1000bhp, 4wd, comfortable supercar.
Price to match though
Dave
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Ciao
Zak
I'd liked to have seen a different approach to the embodiment of what a modern Bugatti should be. Brute-force, ultimate-straight-line-speed-focused uber-car is not quite what I think Ettore Bugatti would have been aiming at.
I'd like to think he'd have been going for something along the lines of a brilliant track car, designed to be quickest through the corners and achieve the best possible lap time, whilst cosseting its pilot to a reasonable degree. I'd imagine that the goals would be along the lines of better than Elise (maybe even better than Radical - but not sure you could actually achieve that without serious luxury sacrifices) handling with greater comfort than a Mercedes-Benz.
Whatever my thoughts on the divergences from Bugatti's possible goals for a 21st century Bug, this car will still be quite an achievement when it launches. And launch it will, of that I'm certain.
Ciao
Zak
PS Actuallly, I think Gordon Murray might just have built the closest thing to what Bugatti would have wanted - the McLaren F1 seems to me to be close to all the ideals Bugatti held...
As both this and the Enzo are made from carbon fibre where does all the weight come from?
It's a brutal statement of Germanic-ownership excess, yes but that is merely a Saxon tradition no less great or worthy than any number of relatively svelte Italian counterparts and I suspect it's detractors might think otherwise granted sufficient exposure to the thing.
Anybody in a position to buy one of these will already own lesser, more ubiquitous exotics.
It is quite literally a masterpiece.
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