Bugatti Veyron 16.4 - car and driver
The sad truth is that the Bugatti Veyron April 16 is just too fast for this world, you can not go cruise around something like 20 mph faster than the pole qualifying lap to win the Indy 500 but if you must find a place to blow around one of these land bound rockets, you could do worse than Eastern Cape, South Africa, or at least the most remote parts here, termite mounds provide some of the only points marker for navigating and savannah and badlands are covered with a thick layer of silence.
And that's exactly why we and a couple of Bugatti engineers came here for a final pre-production evaluation of the most recent final and probably a variation on the theme Veyron April 16, the Grand Sport Vitesse When plate rear registration would generally found, Speed wears a yellow sign that reads VEHICLE SPEED tEST to BIg bY tHE GOVERNMENT aPPROVED and as much as we could this Veyron, we think we might want this plate more.
But we digress The French speed for speed is a combination of two existing major changes Veyron Super Sport makes 1,200 horsepower of its quad-turbo W 8 0 L-16 and the targa-top Grand Sport Somehow, Bugatti has resisted the urge to call the Veyron grand Sport super Sport 16 April.
Fear not that absurd speed was tolerated by the government.
Our first encounter with the speed is on its approach We hear a deep and distant roar before we see It could be a brewing storm or a rushing herd of elephants soon as we distinguish two lights peeping from between horizon and the tarmac, the sound changes to a powerful staccato of 16 pressure cylinders loaded Just a few seconds later, you can feel the air that s the way of punches, and engine sound changes again, this time in a very strong, jetlike streaming as the 4400-pound missile rushes by.
Behind the wheel of the white prototype Jens Schulenburg A Bugatti engineer for 10 years yes, it's so long since the rebirth of the brand, Schulenburg will control the final quality in the end, it will approve what passes for the production in this most rarefied corner automobiledom.
The Grand Sport Vitesse has to prove, over thousands of miles through the quieter parts of Africa, the W-16 giant fires correctly even drinking inferior African fuel; all complex mechanical, thermodynamic and aerodynamic processes always work perfectly even under difficult conditions, including those for which no speed driver will probably submitted his treasures, such as flogging dust when driving on gravel roads and that most likely Bugatti pilot efforts, flying at high speeds, stabbing repeatedly hard on the brakes and accelerating constantly at full throttle.
This speed prototype is dotted with temperature sensors 300 and carries two data recorders, one fixed between the seat and a second in the floor of the passenger Blue VBOX Racelogic on recorded windshield screen data which are sampled 100 times per second.
Speed is not only a Grand Sport with the most powerful engine and the front and rear fascias of the Super Sport ex peri ence driving is never single in previous outings Veyron massive engine felt so close in speed Even with the roof rigid in place, we can feel each breath turbochargers and hear all ticking and whirring of steamworks Central.
With about 0 to 60 mph time of 2 to 4 seconds and a top speed of 255 mph, the Grand Sport Vitesse is the fastest and fastest roadster us or anyone else in the world have never used, but it is not a race car roadgoing There are other super sports cars with the response of more immediate gas, and others that offer a more sensitive handling, but speed has extreme speed, open-air car au beyond anything we have known thanks to its openness to the relatively low roof, the air flow carefully designed around the shell of the body, and blocking the optional wind behind the seats, the turbulence of the cabin is maintained at a minimum We can have a conversation with our training partner up to 155 mph, but only to show restraint unusual with the accelerator pedal.
Don t feel like chatting Well, then, go ahead and continue to accelerate the powers speed beyond 155 mph as vehemently as a Porsche 911 grows above 60 mph and the Bugatti shows no sign of fatigue even beyond 185 mph We touched 206, and you may want to double secure the chin strap of your hairpiece before addressing that kind of speed to 233 mph with the top of the speed of engine power and resistance air eventually fight for a draw, said Schulenburg Affixing top adds another 22 mph at top speed.
Bugatti adapted a single suspension configuration for the speed that includes new shock absorbers with valves and slightly softer springs faster working The result is phenomenal We felt that no nerve frontal vibration during full throttle afflicting the direction Super Sport coupe even some serious rash speeds, the speed can be directed with just two fingers on the steering wheel, even on south African roads sometimes bumpy.
Given its improved ride quality and dual fierce docile personality, the new Grand Sport Vitesse is not only the most powerful and fastest roadster on earth, but also the most desirable Bugatti Veyron April 16 An example will cost you about 2,250,000 and then you want to buy a large part of the land on which to take this thing, or alternatively, you'll want to get your hands on one of these yellow signs.
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