| Dubbed as "The most expensive, most powerful and | | | | of Volkswagen and was replaced by Bernd |
| fastest street-legal production car in the world", the | | | | Pischetsrieder, who sent the Veyron project back to |
| Bugatti Veyron 16.4 can go well over 250 mph (400+ | | | | the drawing board to resolve the major issues. Bugatti |
| kmph). This airplane on wheels can go from zero to | | | | later announced that the car would be officially called |
| sixty in 2.5 seconds and a base price tag of 1,000,000 | | | | Bugatti Veyron 16.4. |
| Euros ($ 1,300,000.00). Full production started last | | | | Under the hood, the Veyron 16.4 features a W16 |
| September 2005; this car is built by Bugatti | | | | engine with 4 banks of 4 cylinders. The engine looks |
| Automobiles SAS, which happens to be a subsidiary | | | | like two V8 engines merged into one. The engine is |
| of Volkswagen AG. The car is named after Pierre | | | | equipped with 4 turbochargers and displaces 8.0 L with |
| Veyron, the 1939 Le Mans champion who raced for | | | | a square 86 x 86 mm bore and stroke. It also uses a |
| the original Bugatti firm. | | | | dual-clutch DSG computer-controlled manual |
| The development of the vehicle started with the EB 18 | | | | transmission and 7 gear ratios using shifter paddles |
| 3 "Veyron" concept car back in 1999 designed be | | | | behind the steering wheel that makes an 8ms shift |
| Hartmut Warkuss of Volkswagen. The appearance of | | | | time possible. It can also be driven by full automatic |
| the concept car is very similar to the final production | | | | transmission. The Veyron runs at full-time all-wheel |
| car but sported a W18 engine and three banks of six | | | | drive that was developed by Haldex and uses special |
| cylinders instead of the W16 engine. At the 2001 | | | | Michelin run-flat tires designed specifically for the |
| Geneva Motor Show, former VW chairman, Ferdinand | | | | Veyron. The wheelbase measures at 2.7 meters while |
| Piëch announced the production of Veyron but | | | | the length is 4.4 meters and width at almost 2 meters |
| will be using W16 engine that promised a top speed of | | | | (1.99 meters) and 1.2 meters in height. The engine |
| 250 mph. Development continued throughout 2001 and | | | | comes with 3 radiators for its cooling system, another |
| the production was pushed back by delays and | | | | one exclusively for the air-to-liquid intercoolers, 2 for |
| setbacks on the design. This is mainly due to the | | | | the air conditioning, 1 for the transmission oil, 1 for the |
| difficulty of keeping a car stable at high-speed. One | | | | engine oil and 1 for the hydraulic oil used by the spoilers |
| Veyron prototype crashed and another spun out while | | | | with a total of 10 radiators simultaneously operating for |
| being demonstrated publicly in Mazda Raceway at | | | | the Veyron 16.4. |
| Laguna Seca. By 2003, Piëch retired as chairman | | | | |