Let’s get the problems out of the way now: it redefines “expensive automobile”, will become either a testbed for companies or playthings for the stupidly rich, and out of the minuscule amount of copies that will ever be made, very, very few will ever be driven to even a fraction of their capability. It’s a warmed-over version of the car that came before it and sooner or later, some moron is going to swerve to avoid a pelican and drive it into a salt marsh, then leave the car running, submerged, for at least fifteen minutes. Worst of all, the only way we will ever see one in public will be at SEMA, probably in a wheel company’s booth, with a gigantic man standing next to it, making sure we don’t get too close to it. Shame, really…the Bugatti Chiron is a re-think on the formula that made the Veyron a technological tour-de-force, and while it’s not a huge leap forward, progress is progress. Adding a few hundred horses to an already lively party can’t hurt, right? No, it can’t, and while keen-eyed enthusiasts can pick up the Veyron DNA in the car, the front and rear facias look a hell of a lot meaner than the old car’s. We like that. But what we like most of all is that this thing sounds pissed. From the moment it fires off, that W-16 makes no bones about the fact that it was designed to do one thing, and that’s make physics submit. At idle it has a nice, deep cammed burble, and when the driver lays into the throttle, the nearly jet-like blast from the four turbochargers is enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. We may never get close to driving one of these monsters, but we envy every last person that not only does, but gets the chance to stand on the loud pedal and let it eat up the miles.
There are many cars around that have more horsepower and were hand built by their owners who are not rich bored camel-jockeys who will write these off when they scratch the paint trying to work out how to open the doors.
The Bugatti Chiron – the world’s most expensive barf-wagon…
Man, I’d be really nervous trying to get the car into that narrow trailer!
Wondered at first why the exhaust was coming out from under the car rather than from the ports, but see in the close up shots the actual exhaust does not terminate in the ports.