NEW VEYRON GETS EXTRA BITE
New Veyron gets added chaw Next adaptation of supercar will be faster and lighter than ever, top acceleration of 270mph on the cards as Bugatti hits new heights
The world’s a lot of absurd supercar is about to get even faster! Auto Express has abstruse that a quicker and lighter new Bugatti Veyron has been accustomed the blooming light.
Although the VW Group has absent money on anniversary one of the 300 coupés, 150 Grand Sports and 30 Super Sport models it’s congenital over the accomplished 5 years, the Veyron’s cachet as a aura car has been account every penny. And our sources accept appear that the German aggregation has absitively to body a new version. Backing this up, VW administrator Martin Winterkorn was afresh broadly appear as saying: “After 300 Bugattis, I accept we would be ailing brash if we were to acquiesce that cast to become abeyant again.”
As with the latest Bentley Continental GT and Porsche 911, the newcomer’s architecture will be evolutionary, but Bugatti is agog to accumulate the Veyron’s instantly recognisable contour intact. An cabal has appear that the next archetypal could yield its afflatus from a architecture angle for the aboriginal Veyron bound by Walter de’Silva, current arch of VW Group design, in 1999.
The affecting prototype, which was never publicly displayed, was baffled to the bite by Hartmut Warkuss’ 18/4 Veyron abstraction from the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show. But its adventurous curve could be adored now that de’Silva is in allegation of VW’s architecture direction.
Similarities include blacked-out A-pillars, creating a wraparound screen, a ‘floating’ roof that curves about to anatomy the ancillary air intakes, and jumpsuit rear ablaze assemblies. Taking a blade out of the accepted Veyron Super Sport’s book, the car will affection a bland roof apparent to accord glace aerodynamics, perforated with ducts to aid cooling.
Under the skin, Bugatti is acceptable to stick with the absolute quad-turbo 8.0-litre W16 engine and seven-speed twin-clutch gearbox, both tweaked for efficiency. Considering that the accepted car churns out 596g/km of CO2, though, it is unlikely to win any blooming awards.
Power achievement will at atomic bout the Super Sport’s – at about 1,200bhp and 1,500Nm of torque – but achievement will yield a big bound forward. Expect a baking 0-62mph time of beneath than 2.5 abnormal and a new record-setting top acceleration of 270mph. This jump will be fabricated accessible by extenuative weight; angled the scales at 1,838kg, even the Super Sport is hardly light, so the new Veyron will accomplish use of addition VW-owned manufacturer’s know-how.Â
Lamborghini is bound acceptable a carbon-composite expert, and the cheaper and quicker-to-make another to carbon fibre braid will be acclimated for all the Bugatti’s bodywork, abundant of the autogenous trim and the monocoque chassis. Lightweight alloys and thinner but stronger bottle will aswell accord to a kerbweight abridgement of about 100kg, so advocacy pace, ability and handling in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, accustomed over abounding locations from the Veyron’s antecedent should badly abate development time and carve costs. And although the close is still absurd to about-face a accumulation on anniversary car, that is beneath of a botheration than you’d think. Speaking alone to Auto Express, Dr Franz-Josef Paefgen, above Bentley and Bugatti boss, explained why: “It costs far added money to attempt in a division of F1 than to run Bugatti.”
Now that assembly of the accepted Veyron is cutting to a halt, development of its successor is accepted to get underway immediately. We’ll see the newcomer for the aboriginal time in 2013, afore it goes on auction the afterward year priced at about £1million.
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