Bugatti
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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 VillasDubai 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: VideoNormally 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: ReportAt 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: VideoBefore 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 UpdateIt’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 VideoBugatti 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 ReplicaBugatti’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: VideoIt’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 MoroccoBugatti’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 SuccessorBugatti 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 NürburgringHaving 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: ReportBugatti 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: VideoFor 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 CrimeYou'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: VideoA 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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Not even a small town’s worth of people will ever own a Bugatti Veyron of any stripe, and it’s no longer being built, but it’s still one of the most important cars of the past two decades. Here, we get to see the quad-turbocharged, W-16 engine being built. MUST SEE: First 725-HP Galpin Rocket Mustang Production Car Unveiled The precision that goes into the build—from the parts specs to the assembly to the final testing—is immense, and partially explains the Veyron’s exorbitant price. Of course, this is also just carporn of a very cerebral degree, so tune...
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Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale Revealed: Live Photos And VideoA significant chapter in the long and illustrious history of Bugatti is coming to a close at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show this week. At the Swiss event, the maker of the world’s fastest production cars is presenting its 450th and final Veyron, the Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale. As recently...
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Middle Eastern Buyer Secures Final Bugatti VeyronProduction of the Bugatti Veyron is finally coming to an end after a 10-year run. The French brand has limited the number of cars to 450, with 300 coupes that sold out years ago and a further 150 open-top Grand Sport models making up the total. Now, the final Veyron, a 1,183-horsepower Grand Sport...
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The Bugatti Veyron Finally Sounds Like Your Brain Thinks A Quad-Turbo W-16 Should: VideoIf you’ve ever seen one of the many examples of the Bugatti Veyron in real life, and heard it drive past, 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, quiet. Not anymore. ALSO SEE: Drifting...
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Bugatti Will Present Final Veyron At 2015 Geneva Motor ShowBugatti only ever planned to build 450 Veyrons, made up of 300 coupes and 150 open-top Grand Sports. Recently, we reported that there were just eight build slots left for the car, and that these slots were all for the open-top Grand Sport (the run of 300 Veyron coupes sold out years ago). Now...
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LaFerrari Demolishes Bugatti Veyron In Drag Race: VideoIt’s hard to believe that the Bugatti Veyron is now a decade old. When the car first hit the scene, its 987-horsepower rating (1,001 hp in metric figures) seemed out of this world for a production car, but now that kind of power is standard when you’re talking top-level supercars...
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