Ever wonder why they call it the Veyron? Well we did too. Apparently it was named after the French raching driver Pierre Veyron who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm. Originally announced at the 2000 Geneva Motor Show, this Veyron was promised to be the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car in history.
The concept has a flippin’ W18! The production version will sport a W16 that has 4 turbochargers that produces roughly 1001 horsepower. I can see it now….. “yeah, I don’t want to brag or anything, but I am kinda in the quadruple horsepower digit range, no big deal”
Bugatti originally only planned to build 300 Veyrons over 5 years, but they have already claimed to have over 70 orders. As of today, 220 have been built, so if you want a new one, you only have 80 more cars to go.
This car is an engineering marvel. The Bugatti Veyron sports 10 radiators to keep everything in sound order. Only 3 of these radiators are for cooling. 1 is for the intercooler, 2 are for the air conditioning system, 1 s for the transmission, 1 is for the differential, 1 is for the engine oil, and one is for the hydraulic oil from the rear spoiler.
Top speed on this beast is a record holding 254 mph. Some may say that 254 mph is ridiculous, but they just don’t see the practicality in it. No wonder it needs a hydraulic rear spoiler. If that isn’t fast enough for you, you might want to go and talk to the guys at SSC and check out their Ultimate Aero TT.
0-60 is so low that it qualifies as the quickest production car in history. It reaches 60 mph in only 2.5 seconds. That’s pulling roughly 1.2 g’s during acceleration! It reaches 125 mph in just 7.4 seconds, 150 mph in 9.8 seconds, and 186 in 16.7 seconds. It even holds a quarter mile time slip of 10.2 seconds at 143 mph.
