Bugatti Veyron

Bugatti Veyron - giperkar of Bugatti (Volkswagen Group) formally submitted in 2005. The fastest car in the world. Previously he was the most expensive of cars produced. Production of the Veyron Super Sport and complete.

Modification Super Sport summer of 2010 set a world record top speed of 431 km / hThe history of the car began with a demonstration at the Tokyo Motor Show concept car 1999 EB 18/3 «Chiron» («Chiron» - car is named after racing driver Louis Chiron Alexander, speaking for the Bugatti team in the twenties and thirties.) From 6.3 -liter 555-horsepower engine, built by the formula W18 with three blocks of 6 cylinders. Designed by Italian studio ItalDesign Giugiaro. But VW chairman Ferdinand Peha was not particularly happy. In general, the car turned out unsuccessful. She was relatively weak, cumbersome engine, and the appearance was more luxurious than sporty.

At the Geneva Motor Show 2001 at the stand of Bugatti Automobiles S. A.S. has been exposed already pre-production with a new name Bugatti EB 16/4 Veyron (new coupe was named after the legendary French racing driver Pierre Veyron, winner in 1939, at the daily races, held at Le Mans by car brand Bugatti 57C. car not only changed his name , was new almost everything from the engine, which consists of two V-shaped blocks of eight cylinders (four blocks, 4 cylinder in each) and up to exciting sporting body, fully developed by Volkswagen Helmut Varkusom (Hartmut Warkuss).Serial production of the model outlined for 2003. Soon, however, Ferdinand Peha as chairman of the Volkswagen Group succeeded Bernd Pischetsrieder (Bernd Pischetsrieder), and in December 2003 became president of the Bugatti Bsher Thomas (Thomas Bscher), replacing Karl-Heinz Neumann. All this greatly shifted the terms and only in September 2005 out of the gate of a newly built factory in Molsheim, came the first production Bugatti Veyron EB16.4.