Bugatti
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One of the stars of the recent Frankfurt Auto Show was Bugatti’s Vision Gran Turismo concept, which previews the look of Bugatti’s highly anticipated Veyron successor and is available to download in Gran Turismo 6. Like one of Bugatti’s production models, the concept is almost completely built by hand and features the brand’s attention to detail and superior workmanship throughout. This video shows the small group of artisans at Bugatti that helped transform the concept from a sketch to reality. Speaking of reality, almost every element on the concept is function...
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Final Drive
It's the 11,102nd day of my human existence, and I'm exiting the 1,183-horsepower Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse after a decent thrashing. As I step out of what I'm convinced is the ultimate supercar, I feel as though I'm stepping into a new body. You may as well have reset the day counter on...
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Crash Test Mule Offers Sneak Peek At Bugatti Veyron Successor
Bugatti’s long-awaited successor to the Veyron, a car thought to be labeled a Chiron, is expected to make its world debut at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show next March. Bugatti has started showing the car privately to potential customers, even inviting some to its headquarters in Molsheim, France...
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Hear The Bugatti Vision GT Concept’s Engine Start Up And Rev: Video
If you’ve ever seen a Bugatti Veyron in real life and were lucky enough to actually see and hear it driving, you may have been impressed, but you were almost certainly let down a bit by the exhaust note. As delivered, the Veyron sounds a bit … well, underwhelming. That won’t be...
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Koenigsegg Founder Races A Bugatti Veyron Against His Own CCXR: Video
It’s not often you see a Koenigsegg go up against a Bugatti Veyron, but what’s even rarer is seeing the boss of one of the supercar brands behind the wheel. In this case it’s Koenigsegg CEO and founder Christian von Koenigsegg, and he’s actually behind the wheel of the...
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Modified E34 BMW M5 Outmuscles Bugatti Veyron: Video
Warning: This video contains some NSFW language. The E34 BMW M5 first arrived in 1988. It was the successor to the original M5, the E28, and stuck with a straight-six engine even though many at the BMW M division at the time wanted a V-8 under the hood. Nevertheless, the car was one of the fastest...
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Bugatti has joined the pantheon of automakers taking part in the Vision Gran Turismo video game challenge, with its design taking the form of a stunning supercar-turned-racer. Crucially, the design is a preview of Bugatti’s Veyron successor, an even faster model currently thought to be called a Chiron and likely due for a reveal at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show next March. As for the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo concept, it was unveiled in life-size form at the 2015 Frankfurt Auto Show. The Vision Gran Turismo challenge it is part of was set by the Gran Turismo racing sim’s creator...
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Bugatti Veyron Inspires New Dubai Villas
Dubai is a land that loves opulence. Bugatti is a car that is very nearly in the dictionary next to that O word. Dubai and Bugatti go together rather nicely, so it's almost surprising that it's taken a developer this long to incorporate the French brand into some form of property development. The...
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Bugatti Veyron Suffers Breakdown On The Streets Of London: Video
Normally a car coming to a stop on the side of the road isn’t worth a second look but when said car is a Bugatti Veyron, and there’s video involved, it’s worthy of posting. This clip comes to us by way of Almuraba and depicts a Veyron Grand Sport whose driver futilely attempts to...
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New Bugatti To Debut At 2016 Geneva Motor Show, Cost 2.2 Million Euros: Report
At the Frankfurt Auto Show this month Bugatti will unveil a Vision Gran Turismo virtual racer concept said to share the new design language used to shape the automaker’s replacement for the Veyron supercar, an even faster model thought to be labeled a Chiron. The Chiron name comes from...
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Chris Harris Spends Time With Bugatti's EB110 Super Sport: Video
Before there was the Veyron there was the EB110. It was built during the 1990s when Bugatti was under the stewardship of Italian Romano Artioli, a Ferrari dealer who revived the brand which had previously been dormant since 1952. He broke ground on a state-of-the-art factory in the Italian commune...
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Bugatti Veyron Successor Spied At LAX--Photo Update
It’s well known Bugatti is working on a successor to its Veyron. Test mules have been running around secret locations for more than a year, one of the first prototypes was spotted in Germany back in May, and just last week Bugatti released an official teaser video. Now we have what may be our...
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There's virtually nothing to write about the Bugatti Veyron that hasn't been covered before. Even a decade after its release, the initial model's specs remain breathtaking: 1,001 metric horsepower (987 hp for us Americans), 16 cylinders, four turbochargers, ten radiators, and a 253-mph top speed. Of course, there's also the million-dollar-plus entry fee, and the operating costs which approximate those of a Learjet. A blizzard of special editions inevitably followed the launch. But the first Veyron made a mark on automotive history that no exclusive color combos—or even high-performance...
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Bugatti Veyron Successor Sounds Menacing In Official Teaser Video
Bugatti has given us our first official glimpse at its Veyron successor, only that glimpse comes in the form of a sound recording of the car’s engine note rather than any actual visual clues. In this official teaser video, we hear some inspirational words about imagining the impossible and...
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Someone Paid $150k For This Carbon Fiber-Bodied Bugatti Royale Replica
Bugatti’s Royale first introduced in 1927 remains to this day one of the biggest cars ever produced. It measured in at close to 21 feet in length and had a curb weight of 7,000 pounds, with Bugatti envisaging it as a car for royal parades—hence the name—and other similar...
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse Cracks 235 MPH At Idaho’s Sun Valley: Video
It’s not often that you can drive your car at the limit on a public road but the annual Sun Valley Road Rally in Idaho lets you do just that. It’s where owners of some of the fastest cars in the world get to let loose on a smooth, straight stretch of highway, and more often than not...
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale Spotted In Morocco
Bugatti’s very last Veyron, the aptly named Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale, has been spotted in the wild, caught while being unloaded from a transporter somewhere in Morocco. Bugatti confirmed that the final Veyron was sold well before the car’s debut back in March at the 2015...
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Volkswagen Boss Hints At Two Performance Levels For Veyron Successor
Bugatti has sold its final Veyron, which means full attention for the crew at the brand’s headquarters in Molsheim, France has turned to the car’s successor, a new supercar tipped to be called the Chiron and packing a hybrid system. Prototypes have been spotted in the wild. They reveal...
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The Volkswagen Group controls more than a dozen brands and has more than half a million employees around the globe. Understandably, such complexity is difficult to oversee from a central hub which is why we may see the automaker’s management and corporate structure reorganized into four separate units. DON'T MISS: Ford Returning To Le Mans In 2016 With GT Supercar: Official Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper citing company sources is reporting that the VW Group may be transformed into four separate holding companies. One unit would be in charge of mainstream brands Volkswagen, Skoda...
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Bugatti’s Two Land Speed Record Holders Meet At The Nürburgring
Having just sold its final Veyron, Bugatti is now celebrating the car’s 10-year run while work on a successor continues in earnest. This past weekend, two significant Veyrons, the examples used to set the current land speed records for both a production car and a production open-top car, took...
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Bugatti Veyron Successor To Do 0-60 MPH In 2.0 Seconds: Report
Bugatti just sold its final Veyron, which means full attention for the crew in Molsheim, France has turned to the car’s successor, a new supercar tipped to be called the Chiron and packing a hybrid powertrain. Early test mules for the car have been spotted, but no new details could be...
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Make-A-Wish Kid Gets Ride Of His Life In Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse: Video
For many, the obsession with cars started shortly after leaving the womb, which makes the owners and dealers of exotic hardware particularly suited to provide families facing bone-chilling diagnoses with some much-needed levity. MUST WATCH: Man Builds Batmobile & Becomes Real Life Superhero To...
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Ultra-Exotic Parking Problems: Veyron On LaFerrari Crime
You're staying at your posh Paris hotel. The valet was kind enough to keep your LaFerrari parked right at the curbside entrance. In fact, they were happy both to have it sitting there and to not have to touch it themselves. Not so surprisingly, seeing as this is the Four Seasons George V after all...
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Witness The Assembly Of The Final Bugatti Veyron: Video
A decade after first bursting onto the scene and smashing a land speed record, the Bugatti Veyron is now driving off into the sunset, soon to be replaced by a faster and more powerful model packing hybrid technology. Recently, Bugatti showed off the last of the Veyron, car number 450. That car, a...
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