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Chris Harris describes the Bugatti Veyron SS

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.

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Bugatti Veyron Super Sport photo gallery

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

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 75 images of the 431km/h Super Sport.

Not content with just pics, there’s a couple of bonus PDF downloads to be had after the break as well. There’s some great detail images included; let’s face it, this is probably as close as many of us will ever get to a Veyron. Enjoy!

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One Veyron for the price of two

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport

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 still only get one Veyron for double the money.

That’s right, the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, which is about to go on sale in India, gets slugged with a 110% import tax. The final cost is a cool 160 million rupees. If that doesn’t mean much to you, it works out to be around US$3.6 million. Ouch! Other markets charge taxes, too, but none are quite as high as in India; for comparison a Grand Sport would cost you US$2.2 million in America or €1.6 million in Europe (around AU$2.25m).

Of course, after buying a Veryron, the real problem for Indian consumers is finding some space in their Dharavi mansions to park their new wheels.

[Source: Autoblog]

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“It is absolutely clackers!”

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

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 and that stands as the fastest speed set by a production vehicle.

In case you haven’t already done the sums, the Aussie dollar conversion is around $3.2 million.

Check out Sutcliffe’s review after the break. Lucky sod!

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Veyron Super Sport sets new Top Gear track record

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

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 Sport claimed another prized record; it now sits atop the Top Gear Power Lap board.

James May also returned to the driver’s seat of the Veyron to experience the “Bloody Nora” speeds all for himself.

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Bugatti Veyron Super Sport sets new landspeed record

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport

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 opposite directions set within a one hour time limit. In its first pass the Super Sport logged a top speed of 427.933km/h. The second was recorded at 434.211km/h.

“We took it that we would reach an average value of 425 km/h,” explains Bugatti’s chief engineer Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, “but the conditions today were perfect and allowed even more.”

The record was set by Bugatti’s chief test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel at Volkwagen Group’s Ehra-Lessien proving grounds, near Wolfsburg. The new mark has been verified by the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÃœV) and the Guinness Book of Records.

More after the break.

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Son gets daddy’s Bugatti Veyron impounded

Bugatti Veyron 16.4

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 an 80km/h zone. Strict laws in Holland mean cars can be impounded indefinitely following a serious speeding offence. At this stage it would appear Perridon’s Veyron is no closer to being released. I’m guessing family dinners around the Perridon dining table have been a tense affair of late!

[Source: SMH | Pics: via Autocar | Thanks to Jim for the tip]

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Bugatti Veyron documentary – part 2

Bugatti Veyron documentary

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 around 10,000 kilometres. Maybe.

Another interesting tidbit is the fact that every Veyron is driven for 500km prior to delivery. That would be sure to raise the ire of those new car buyers who throw tantrums if their car has more than 20km when they drive it off the showroom floor!

The final two clips can be seen after the jump. Enjoy.

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Bugatti Veyron documentary – part 1

Bugatti Veyron documentary

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, calling the Veyron a “piece of junk”.

Whichever side of the fence you sit it is hard to be anything other than staggered by the car’s numbers. In less than five seconds the 16.4 litre W16 powered Veyron can accelerate from rest to 100km/h and come to a complete stop again. That is astonishing, no other way to describe it, really.

After the break is the first of a two part piece on the Veyron as shown on National Geographic Channel’s Man Made program.

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Holy outlandish Veyron rendering Batman!

Bugatti Renaissance rendering

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 an exercise in pushing the boundaries with the freedom tertiary study offers I think John Mark has done a great job. Over at evo they are not so sure, though.

The Veyron was recently awarded a “Car of the Decade” title in the Top Gear Season 14 finale. So, what do you think, is this an improvement on the original, or did John Mark fail?

One thing is sure, the name John Mark Vicente is now a lot more well known that it was before these renderings were released!

[Source: evo]

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Bugatti Veyron - Pretty sure that's a Lambo dude

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 be mine one day.
Harry: What is it?
Lloyd: Pretty sure that’s a Lambo dude.
Lloyd: [screaming] Oh, oh he’s … oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!

Oh, and, erm, no sign of the “pelican” either, haha.

[Source: Jalopnik]

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In the drink

Bugatti Veyron gets that sinking feeling

Now kids, this is why you shouldn’t talk on your mobile phone while driving, okay.

It has been reported the anonymous owner of this Bugatti Veyron was having a yak on his phone when a pelican flew in front of the car’s windscreen. Startled by Mr Percival‘s fly-by, the driver dropped his phone, filled his pants then put his hypercar in the drink after losing control and hurtling into this saltwater lagoon in Galveston County, Texas.

I’m guessing the plank’s first words after the incident were quite a lot stronger than, “Oops! Did I just do that?”

The astonishing Veyron has as many admirers as it does detractors. For every person that gets off on the car’s engineering prowess is another one who claims the car is too heavy and too pointless.

The latter, then, who probably think the car is better suited as a boat, will enjoy the description of the car’s final moment given in Galveston County’s local rag, “The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.”

You can see an unexciting, but still very sad video of the Veyron being towed out of the lagoon after the jump.

[Source: Galveston County Daily News]