Bugatti
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The Petersen Museum is in its Renaissance period as it's fresh off a rebuilding year. There are a ton of great exhibits currently on display and the latest appeals to both lovers of the automobile and those of the art world. It's a collection called The Art of Bugatti, and it's a showcase of the varied works of art created by a number of members of the talented family. You'll find automobiles created by Ettore and Jean Bugatti. There's furniture and paintings created by Carlo Bugatti, and there are a number of sculptures of animals crafted by Rembrandt Bugatti. The cars, though, are what will...
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1:8 Scale Bugatti Chiron will set you back over $10,000Looking to add some spice to your Hot Wheels collection? Maybe you're a bit more serious about grabbing as many scale versions of your favorite cars as you can, and that means you've already jump up to the AutoArt offerings of the world. Guess what? You're a small-time player. Just like there's...
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Update: Bugatti Chiron’s top speed to remain capped at 261 mph
Update: An original version of this article based on incorrect information from a September 8 'Autoblog' post suggested Bugatti will unlock the 261-mph speed limiter on the Chiron. The current land speed record for a production car is the 267.86 mph set by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in 2010...
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This Bugatti Chiron you probably can afford
Disappointed you don’t own 84 cars, 3 jets and a yacht like the average Bugatti customer? Well, take some solace in knowing that there’s a Bugatti Chiron that you probably can afford. The only problem is you can’t actually drive this one. Italy’s MR Collection Models has...
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Bugatti considering hybrid powertrain--but only for performance
Bugatti has yet to go the way of the other hypercar makers of the world. By that, I mean no electron-drinking motors and banks of laptop batteries are installed to aid in the creation of tremendous power. The Bugatti Chiron, the French automaker's latest insane machine, is powered by a W-16 engine...
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The Bugatti Vision GT concept ran out of fuel at Pebble Beach
Every August, Monterey, California becomes the mecca for car enthusiasts around the world for what is known as car week— the 2016 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and every car collector worth his or her salt was there with a vehicle or five plucked from their garage. Not to be outdone, of...
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Bugatti’s new Chiron hypercar has made its official North American debut. The car is one of the star attractions of this week’s Monterey Car Week in California. Its first stop is The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering on Friday and then it heads to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday. It will be joined at the flagship event by another Bugatti, the Chiron-previewing Vision Gran Turismo concept. The Chiron was shown for the first time in March at the 2016 Geneva auto show but in Monterey we get our first look at the car in its specification for the United States. Our...
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Saudi Bugatti fan shows up in Cannes with his new Chiron
On August 2 Bugatti confirmed it had delivered its very first Chiron, in this case to a fan from Saudi Arabia with the Instagram handle b14. Believed to be a member of Saudi Arabia’s Saud ruling family, the Bugatti fan has since been spotted with his Chiron in Cannes, France. YouTube channel...
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Bugatti 100P project leader killed in test flight crash
Tragedy struck Saturday morning at an airfield near Burns Flat, Oklahoma when a replica of an airplane designed by Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti in the 1930s crashed during a test flight, killing its pilot Scotty Wilson. Wilson, an Air Force veteran, was the leader of the small team developing the...
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Bugatti Chiron launch car and Vision Gran Turismo concept sold to Saudi fan
A Bugatti fan from Saudi Arabia has managed to convince the French marque to sell its Chiron unveiled at the car’s 2016 Geneva auto show debut, as well as the one-off Vision Gran Turismo concept that we first saw at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show. Bugatti revealed the buyer as Instagram user...
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Bugatti Chiron and Vision Gran Turismo head to Monterey Car Week
Bugatti fans are in for a treat at Monterey Car Week, which runs August 15-21 in Monterey, California and concludes with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Bugatti has confirmed the appearance of both its Chiron hypercar and Vision Gran Turismo concept. The Chiron will be present at The...
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13-year-old breaks 200 mph on an airstrip with Bugatti Veyron
What did you do for Father's Day this year? A young man named Steven Aghakhani took his father's Bugatti Veyron out for a blast down an airport runway. It unfolded at a Shift-Sector event in Colorado, where Steven's father Armik was hoping the boy would blow past the 200 mile per hour mark. He did...
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Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer has revealed that the maker of the Veyron and Chiron hypercars is considering a new model line, and there are as many as four possibilities for what it could be. The information was revealed by Dürheimer during a recent interview with Drive, and though he wasn’t willing to say what the four possibilities were he did say one of them was a sedan along the lines of the Galibier 16C concept unveiled in 2009. The others are thought to be an SUV, a more accessible supercar, and an electric car of some sort. Crucially, all of them would have higher...
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What the Bugatti Chiron could have looked like
The design of Bugatti’s new Chiron was met with almost universal praise at its unveiling at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. But it was just one of several proposals, and others, such as this one from Bugatti designer Sasha Selipanov, show that the 1,480-horsepower hypercar could have taken on a...
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When Bugatti designed a car for Suzuki
Bugatti is currently the flagship brand of the Volkswagen Group but the German auto giant isn’t responsible for reviving the historic French marque, which originally ceased making cars in 1952. That honor goes to Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli who established Bugatti Automobili in 1987...
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Bugatti CEO drives new Chiron faster than a race car at Le Mans
The fastest car at last weekend's 24 Hours of Le Mans wasn't decked out with sponsor graphics and racing tires. It was, instead, a street-legal Bugatti that you, too, can buy... assuming you're of the especially well-heeled variety. We are of course talking about the new Chiron. Bugatti CEO...
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Bugatti furniture collection to match your Veyron or Chiron
If a Bugatti in your garage isn't quite enough, the French marque is now offering up a line of furniture so that you can experience its premium design just about anywhere. The maker of the 1,480-horsepower Chiron hypercar has partnered with furniture maker Luxury Living Group to create a new range...
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Watch Bugatti’s CEO drive the Chiron on the Nürburgring
Bugatti and its CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer turned up to this past weekend’s Nürburgring 24 Hours with the new Chiron. And the folks at Car Throttle were fortunate enough to be invited for a ride in the passenger seat as Dürheimer took the new 1,480-horsepower hypercar on a hot lap...
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Seeing any Bugatti Veyron—heck, any Bugatti—on a public road will induce a double take, but the one-off collaboration between the automaker and the French artist Bernar Venet? Well, that's essentially unheard of. Car spotter Jeroen, a popular YouTuber with an uncanny ability to stumble across the rarest and most unique cars in the world, happened across the outlandish Bugatti Grand Sport Venet while at work, of all places. MUST SEE: Hear the Bugatti Chiron’s monster engine rev Jeroen gives us a lengthy walk around the supercar, a model that Bugatti billed as the "fastest...
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What if your next Uber driver picked you up in a Bugatti?
Requesting an Uber driver is kind of like playing automotive roulette: You never know what you're going to get. Odds are good that a Toyota Camry or a Nissan Altima might pop up, but some lucky passengers in Dubai wound up with something much more impressive. ALSO SEE: M4 driver with death wish...
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Hear the Bugatti Chiron’s monster engine rev
Bugatti’s new Chiron is one of the most anticipated cars of the year. The 1,480-horsepower hypercar was unveiled during March’s Geneva Motor Show but deliveries of customer cars won’t start until later in the year. There are a few videos now showing the Chiron out and about, with...
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Bugatti Veyron owner cool with using auto wash
If your car retailed for well over a million dollars you’d want only the best treatment for it, right? Well, not the owner of this Bugatti Veyron who appears to have no qualms driving through an automatic car wash. DON'T MISS: Ferrari F12 tdf driver does massive burnout at Gumball 3000...
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Bugatti Chiron cold starts in Monaco, sounds mean
Examples of the 1,480-horsepower Chiron hypercar are being delivered to Bugatti dealerships around the globe. We recently brought you photos of a silver example delivered to a dealership in Munich. Recently, a navy blue example was delivered to a dealership in Monaco. This time, though, there were...
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Bugatti Chiron spotted on the streets of New York City
Bugatti’s new hypercar to replace the Veyron, the 1,480-horsepower Chiron, made its world debut earlier in the month at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. The car was absent during last week’s 2016 New York Auto Show but it wasn’t far as the same blue example we saw in Geneva was...
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