Bugatti Veyron 16.4 = WOW!
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4(photo: Ed Alcock for The New York Times)
Recent coverage of this amazing car has been fun to read and watch. I saw it at the 2005 LA Auto Show (I'll post pictures later) and couldn't believe the stats on it!
Also a particularly funny edition of Top Gear features it:
- 1001 horsepower!!!
- 2 side by side VW W-8 engines!!
- Each engine is turbocharged
- 10 radiators cool the various systems (including one to cool the hydraulics that lift the spoiler!)
- 0-60 in 2.5 seconds
- FASTER than a Formula-1 car!!!
- Top speed 253 mph
- At full speed it will empty it's 100 litre gas tank in 20 minutes.
- Braking from 250 mph to 0 takes only 10 seconds!
Also a particularly funny edition of Top Gear features it:
posted by Unknown at 9:59 AM
3 Comments:
It's funny that consumer engines have gotten so good that million-dollar cars use them.
See also: the Ariel Atom. http://www.arielmotor.co.uk/ (Also featured on Top Gear, and which is actually in your price range.)
It's saturday morning and I'm sitting here at sony reading your blog. Good stuff. A few things about the bugatti:
- The engine is actually a single block made of two V8's fused together on a common crankshaft, hence "W16". Each bank has it's own turbocharger, for a total of 4.
- Subjectively, it's faster than an F1 car in a straight line. However, F1 cars are designed with huge, sticky tires and lots of tricky aerodynamics to maximize cornering grip. Comparing road cars to race cars is virtually impossible, what with rulebooks and safety regulations and such. There were F1 cars in the mid-80s that turned 1500 HP out of little turbo'ed engines that would have spanked the veyron all over the place. However, what is impressive about the veyron is that its moving parts are designed to last 30 years, not 2 hours.
- I think it's ugly. An engineering feat, for sure, but... eh. I'll take a McLaren F1 for aesthetics and purity of purpose.
Dan
Hah, I am sitting at here in Imageworks too, watching your top-gear vid and think it's a f-ing sick car. Way hotter then an F1.
I never heard of Buggeti before this. And btw, British humor is silly.
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