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Many Bugatti Chiron associated numbers are common knowledge It has 16 cylinders and a displacement of eight liters It sends 1500ch and 1600nm of torque to all four wheels and can comfortably cruise at 400 km h And then there's the cost 7 February million before customization.
Yet despite these figures, in the words of company president Wolfgang Dürheimer, test the limits of physics, the number that may come as the biggest surprise is that 20 s how many people it takes to hand assemble the 1,800 parts that go into making up each Chiron no wonder that it can take between six and nine months to go from a Chiron commissioning to deliver the finished car.
The production area is more like a laboratory than a factory and is almost completely devoid machines Even the floor is conductive to dissipate electrostatic charges.
Neither our equipment or our procedures can be compared to those of other car factories, explains Christophe Piochon We build a super sports car that is quite clear, but it is the way we do head the production and logistics, the company itself, the drawing hand of an individual product for each customer in this very special atmosphere, which makes us unique this is Haute Couture of the Automobile.
In fact, even Bugatti tightening a bolt was elevated to an art form There are more than 1,800 bolts that hold the car together and while many are hand tight 1068 are clamped by what is called a EC screwdriver system and signaling when a bolt is tight enough, it actually saves numerically the torque curve and the forces applied to each bolt for future reference.
Another great number is 1200 the current in amperes generated when Chiron is tested internally, custom dynamometer at speeds up to 200 km h in two to three ours rather than wasting all that energy produced, it is returned to the power supply of Molsheim.
However, to ensure that the car is really built to perfection, each Chiron is stripped when it is run on the track of Colmar Airport 600 km test speeds of 250 km h and beyond and is also tested on the Autobahn.
And the car looks as good as it's going, before it hits the road, it's wrapped in a protective foil a process that takes a whole day and when the test disc is complete, the sheet is removed, the car is equipped with its production wheels and underbody production and taking into account its external paint finish.
Little wonder that the first production Chirons won t be reach their owners until the end of March or by the end of 2017, there will be 70 Chirons on the road worldwide.
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