Archive for the ‘Bugatti’ Category

DIY Bugatti Veyron

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Want to build your own Bugatti Veyron? Well, thanks to the official configurator on the Bugatti website you can. We’ve shown you a few images of our Veyron 16.4 carbon grey/gray green combo here, but really, you should let yourself run wild. You can even make your own Grand Sport or Super Sport if you [...]

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse

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If you checked out our Geneva Motor Show photo galleries you will have noticed Bugatti is still pumping out new versions of its now seven year old Veyron platform. This time its the Grand Sport Vitesse. With 1200hp sourced from its 7.9 litre W16 quad-turbocharged engine it proudly carries the label of the world’s most [...]

2012 Geneva Motor Show in pictures – part 1

After a couple of days for press previews the doors to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show are about to be opened to the public. Figuring you probably can’t make it we’re bringing you our biggest photo gallery ever. That’s right, there’ll be over 200 images from the floor of Geneva for you to enjoy. We’ve [...]

Chris Harris describes the Bugatti Veyron SS

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The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is a stupidly quick car; we know this. It has a top speed over 431km/h and can reach 100km/h in just 2.5 seconds. Here, in this short teaser video, Chris Harris explains what that speed feels like.

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport photo gallery

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Recent reports suggest Bugatti will shelve sportscars for luxury saloons once the Veyron has reached the end of its production cycle. With that in mind, now seems a good time to pay homage to the all-conquering Veyron. So, over the last couple of days AUSmotive has raided the Bugatti press archive and come up with [...]

Bugatti planning A8 derived saloon

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Reports from Germany suggest Bugatti will end its sportscar production in favour of a return to luxury saloons. It is understood the next Bugatti creation will be based on the Audi A8 and should come to life in 2014. At last year’s Geneva Motor Show Bugatti presented the Galibier Concept (pictured above). The Galibier is [...]

One Veyron for the price of two

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If you think our Luxury Car Tax is bad then spare a thought for those unfortunate Bugatti Veyron buyers in India. You see, the Indian government laughs in the face of our measly 33% rate and says if you can afford to buy one Veyron you can afford to buy two. Only trouble is, you [...]

“It is absolutely clackers!”

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Well, with 1200 horsepower, 1500 Newton metres of torque and costing around £2,000,000 what else would you expect him to say? Him is Steve Sutcliffe from Autocar and the car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Yep, that’s the one that set a new landspeed record back in June. The magic number then was 431km/h [...]

Veyron Super Sport sets new Top Gear track record

The 1200bhp Bugatti Veyron Super Sport recently set a new world record for the fastest production car ever made. The average top speed recorded during the record run was an astounding 431km/h. But what is it like around the Top Gear track? Watch the clip from episode 15×05 below and see just how the Super [...]

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport sets new landspeed record

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On 26 June 2010 this lairy orange and black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, with 1200hp (882kW) if you don’t mind, set a new landspeed record for production vehicles. The bar has now been set at 431km/h. Astonishing! Following normal protocols for such records the top speed is calculated as an average of two runs in [...]

Son gets daddy’s Bugatti Veyron impounded

A 20-year-old Dutchman has had his father’s Bugatti Veyron impounded after doubling the posted speed limit in Rotterdam last month. The Veyron belongs to wealthy businessman Michel Perridon, who is a director of Trust International, former sponsors of the Red Bull Racing and Spyker Formula One teams. His son, Thomas, was caught doing 160km/h in [...]

Bugatti Veyron documentary – part 2

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This is the second and final part of the Bugatti Veyron doco. As noted in part 1, the Veyron provides some epic numbers, but it also brings with it some horrific over expenses, too. How does $17,000 for a set of replacement tyres grab you? It’s okay, though, because your tyres should be good for [...]

Bugatti Veyron documentary – part 1

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The Bugatti Veyron is an engineering masterstroke made simply because it could be. Or perhaps it is a vulgar exercise in excess at the expense of financial discretion. The only certainty is that the Veyron polarises opinions. Indeed, McLaren Automotive boss Ron Dennis reckons the big Bugatti is “pig ugly”. Dennis didn’t stop there, either, [...]

Holy outlandish Veyron rendering Batman!

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The images you see here are the work of John Mark Vicente, a recent Communication Design graduate at the Emily Carr University in Canada. Using a Bugatti Veyron as a base Vicente has penned a creation that would sit very nicely in the Batcave. The exercise formed part of the student’s university work and as [...]

Dumb & Dumber

You’ll remember yesterday’s sad story of the Bugatti Veyron taking a dip. Amazingly, the incident has been captured on video and can be seen below after the jump. Adding some humour to the tragedy is the expert commentary provided by the guys behind the camera. Let’s call them Lloyd and Harry: Lloyd: [murmurs] That will [...]