Bugatti Veyron spotted testing

Spy shots show monster car still under test

By PH Staff / Thursday, 1 September 2005 / Loading comments

PistonHeads's spies have spotted the 1,000bhp Bugatti Veyron testing at high altitudes. At Mount Evans, Colorado, which is 14,000ft up, is the highest paved road in the USA.

We hear that VW's -- sorry, Bugatti's -- engineers were undertaking some road and altitude testing.

Vignettes:

The guy doing the pull from the laptop had plugs up his nose, he seemed to be unused to high altitudes.
The wheelrims said PROTO on them
There was some tape holding some of the skin/body components of the car on too. Three cars were there on a semi-truck
The rear spoiler seems to be adjustable it has pistons under it. It also appears to be retractable. I did not however see it move.
We followed it down the mountain, they did not go down very fast. The driver pulled over at the bottom and again did a check on his laptop. I could smell something hot or overheating, think it was the brakes.

Vignettes and photos by Gerald Styles