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Bugatti Vayron – Fastest Car

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The Bugatti Veyron is a car built around an engine. Essentially, Bugatti made the decision to blow the doors off the supercar world by creating a 1,000-horsepower engine. Everything else follows from that resolution.

The exotic two-passenger Bugatti Veyron is powered by a four-turbocharged, 8-liter, 16-cylinder engine that creates 1001 horsepower. A complicated 7-speed transmission and AWD system allows the Veyron to control the 1001hp. Its interior is almost completely leather upholstery, save the center console, and its body is fashioned with carbon fiber to offset the weight of the powertrain. Some unique features are a large rear spoiler that tips forward at elevated speeds to act as an air brake and a large interior cabin designed to accommodate six-foot seven-inch drivers.

The carbon monocoque holds the engine plus the passenger cell, while the polished aluminum panelling is enhanced by reflections in the sculpted bodywork. Interestingly, the rawness of the materials even more strongly highlights the dual character of this car: performance power coupled with cruising comfort, structure and body, dark and light.

High Performance

The carâs safety systems have been designed to cope with its extraordinary performance, acceleration and speed. The single-piece carbon-fiber monocoque alone scores maximum points in crash tests, while airbags give the driver and passenger additional protection. The high-speed tires designed specially for the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 (for vmax. > 350 km/h), sizes 265-680 ZR500A (front) and 365-710 R540A (rear), incorporate a further innovative safety feature in the form of the PAX System fitted to the wheels and tires, ensuring safe handling even after sudden pressure loss.

Independent press tests have reported many failures (three out of five cars notionally available for testing in November 2005 were out of service), but the Veyron prototypes were put through the same gruelling regimen as other Volkswagen group models, with each pre-production car logging over 50,000 miles. This car comes in many different color combinations, including red and black, blue and dark blue, grey and black, and so on. Bugatti Veyron Fbg par HermÃ¨s is the latest limited edition version of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4. It is a limited edition model that costs $2.3 million (not including tax)and has an interior designed and crafted by the French leather and silk specialist, HermÃ¨s.

Features

The array of unique features within the car are commensurate with the AUS$2 million price tag and include a specially designed 7-speed gearbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission , an aerodynamic mono-coque body complete with fully-panelled undertray and a rear spoiler which changes position according to the speed range of the car. Even the hi-fi system was designed in conjunction with the body shape. There is nothing ordinary about this car – when it goes on sale next year, it will be the fastest and most expensive production car in history.

Review

The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 was one of the, if not the, most eagerly anticipated supercars of all time. The Veyron, as a concept, was officially revealed for the first time in 1999 at the Tokyo Auto Show. Named the Bugatti EB 18/3 Chiron, the concept was powered by an 18 cylinder engine and showed the first styling features of the Veyron.