Monday 9th September 2019

Chiron Super Sport 300 unveiled with 1600hp

Customer version of Bugatti's record-breaker is limited to 30 cars - each with a colossal price tag

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You'd have bet your house on Bugatti taking production advantage of its (unofficial) record-breaking run, revealed last week. After all, it did so with the Veyron in the same circumstances, releasing a 30-example run of Super Sport cars as well as five World Record Edition models. The similarly titled Super Sport 300+ will also be limited to a production run of just 30 units - each priced at £4.2m.

For that you do get by far the coolest looking Chiron. The 304.77mph car received a host of detailed aerodynamic changes to ensure it properly balanced lift and downforce, and then blacked out the shinier bits for effect. The result is precisely as lean and mean as you'd want a barrier-breaker to look and barring its lower ride height, that would seem to be the car you're buying.

Certainly you'll get all the advantages of the Thor-grade W16 engine, which outputs the same 1,600hp in the production car is it did in the one Andy Wallace drove, along with the longer-geared transmission needed to get it beyond the magic number. Early word on the Super Sport says you'll have a speed limiter to contend with, although apparently Bugatti hasn't decided where it will be set (the standard Chiron's limits you to 261mph).

Such prudence is understandable - after all the 300 won't come as standard with all the safety gear Wallace enjoyed; the interior has been returned to a 'normal' two-seat cabin and there's obviously no roll cage. That said, Top Gear reckons that there's an option for buyers to return the car to Wallace-spec, should they feel the need to emulate his nibbs at Ehra-Lessien. A wish they will apparently be granted, if they care to try their hand at a V-max.

Normally we'd take that suggestion with a pinch of salt (given Volkswagen's notorious prickliness when it comes to people visiting its proving ground) but £4.2m probably opens a fair few special doors. And if that price sounds a wee bit extravagant even for a record-breaking hypercar, Bugatti suggests it has already had plenty of interest from Chiron owners in the Super Sport 300+.

You could have bet your house on that, too.

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[EyeHeartSpellin]

Thank god for that. Can PH now delete the 8.2 million "but it's not a production car" posts from last week?

[Jon_S_Rally]

This is certainly no surprise. Launching a production version was inevitable.

Nicest looking modern Bugatti yet, though still not the prettiest thing in the world.

[0a]

Looks like the advertising for The Fast and The Furious.

[AmosMoses]

Awesome, mad to think if you were a very rich newly qualified driver you could buy this and drive it

[Dave Hedgehog]

i will wait until next months super mega sport 310 is released

[Barry Homo]

Spectacular looking thing. So well resolved and the proportions are even nicer than the standard car. Love it.

[thelostboy]

Look incredible. If I won the Euromillions, I'd have to have one!

[kambites]

Dave Hedgehog said:

i will wait until next months super mega sport 310 is released

Haven't Bugatti specifically said that this is the end of their chasing of speed records, that they're going to aim the brand in a different direction from now on?

[epom]

Would they do them for an even €4mil each if I was to take two ??

[kambites]

I wonder if it comes with the special tyres which were developed for the 300mph run, and if so how much they cost to replace.

[Harry_523]

in other news, night follows day....

First owner to do 300 in their customer car gets a cookie

[J4CKO]

Harry_523 said:

in other news, night follows day....

First owner to do 300 in their customer car gets a cookie

Through an average speed camera section of Motorway

[Fetchez la vache]

Jon_S_Rally said:

Nicest looking modern Bugatti yet, though still not the prettiest thing in the world.

Yes - really liking that and the colour really sets it off imho.

Can't help but feeling a speed limiter on an edition of a car to commemorate it's top speed is somewhat ironic though

[Harry_523]

J4CKO said:

Harry_523 said:

in other news, night follows day....

First owner to do 300 in their customer car gets a cookie

Through an average speed camera section of Motorway

need to make sure they go both ways though

[Amanitin]

it is a spectacular achievement no question, however unless the car was picked at random from the production run (and no modifications except safety and telemetry gear), this is not a 'production car' anything.

[Robmarriott]

got shot down last week for suggesting the record car looked production ready because I wasn't basing my assumption on anything....

[kambites]

Amanitin said:

it is a spectacular achievement no question, however unless the car was picked at random from the production run (and no modifications except safety and telemetry gear), this is not a 'production car' anything.

I'm pretty sure no manufacturer has ever taken that approach to getting "production car records" for anything. Retrofitting a cage and fire repellent systems to a car you've already built would be ridiculous.

[Gandahar]

Great looking car but for that money could buy the new electric Lotus with 1900bhp or the Aston Martin Valkyrie plus some "cheap" Ferraris, mclarens etc.

[simonbamg]

can i have silver wheels on mine

[samoht]

Very cool that they're selling a 300mph car to the public :-) Sounds like, at least, it's possible to arrange with Bugatti for your actual car to hit 300.

I really hope these get exercised on some of the closed-road races in the US, on an autobahn, etc