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.
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.