Bugatti Chiron (Page 2)
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There is one guy that I am following on Instagram that ordered one. The guy has a crazy car collection.
OT: If anyone in the market for a used 2008 Veyron, there is one in Montreal. The sticker price is US$1.4 million.
OT: If anyone in the market for a used 2008 Veyron, there is one in Montreal. The sticker price is US$1.4 million.
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^That was freaking awesome!!!! If you looked at the trees rushing by it looked like they were about to hit hyperspace lol.
Also did anybody else notice that the guy riding shotgun said he did 357 kph on the autobahn in a Veyron earlier that morning??? That's 221mph for us Yanks. 221mph on a public road, insanity!!!!
As far as the styling goes, man they knocked it out of the park. I never did quite like the Veyron, I felt it looked a bit too feminine, a bit too bloated, it was a big car and looked like one. The Chiron looks like a pissed off Veyron, it looks meaner, more chiseled, like it dropped 20lbs at the gym and put on some muscle. I know both cars are about the same size, but the Chiron looks smaller and leaner than the Veyron IMO.
Also did anybody else notice that the guy riding shotgun said he did 357 kph on the autobahn in a Veyron earlier that morning??? That's 221mph for us Yanks. 221mph on a public road, insanity!!!!
As far as the styling goes, man they knocked it out of the park. I never did quite like the Veyron, I felt it looked a bit too feminine, a bit too bloated, it was a big car and looked like one. The Chiron looks like a pissed off Veyron, it looks meaner, more chiseled, like it dropped 20lbs at the gym and put on some muscle. I know both cars are about the same size, but the Chiron looks smaller and leaner than the Veyron IMO.
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^That was freaking awesome!!!! If you looked at the trees rushing by it looked like they were about to hit hyperspace lol.
Also did anybody else notice that the guy riding shotgun said he did 357 kph on the autobahn in a Veyron earlier that morning??? That's 221mph for us Yanks. 221mph on a public road, insanity!!!!
As far as the styling goes, man they knocked it out of the park. I never did quite like the Veyron, I felt it looked a bit too feminine, a bit too bloated, it was a big car and looked like one. The Chiron looks like a pissed off Veyron, it looks meaner, more chiseled, like it dropped 20lbs at the gym and put on some muscle. I know both cars are about the same size, but the Chiron looks smaller and leaner than the Veyron IMO.
Also did anybody else notice that the guy riding shotgun said he did 357 kph on the autobahn in a Veyron earlier that morning??? That's 221mph for us Yanks. 221mph on a public road, insanity!!!!
As far as the styling goes, man they knocked it out of the park. I never did quite like the Veyron, I felt it looked a bit too feminine, a bit too bloated, it was a big car and looked like one. The Chiron looks like a pissed off Veyron, it looks meaner, more chiseled, like it dropped 20lbs at the gym and put on some muscle. I know both cars are about the same size, but the Chiron looks smaller and leaner than the Veyron IMO.
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Here's Every Inch Of The Bugatti Chiron
The Bugatti Chiron has been with us for a while now, and although we’ve seen a fair share of videos with it, the big brute still has many things to hide. Some of them in plain sight.
But thanks to Saabkyle04, who thoroughly filmed every inch of the 1500 PS (1,479hp) 1,600 Nm (1,180 lb·ft) of torque mid-engine, two-seater sports car, we’re able to uncover some of its secrets, at least visually.
Sure, the reportedly 463 km/h (288 mph) capable Chiron is so intricate that this 28-minute video only scratches the surface of its complexity, but it’s enough to offer you an exclusive insight of this automotive royalty.
As you’d expect, Bugatti is in a league of its own when it comes to attention to details, as even the regular key fob’s logo is made from silver like the one on the radiator grille. To top it off, each one of the four headlamps uses carbon fiber and aluminum elements, while the entire light clusters are characterized by Bugatti as the flattest LED projector headlamps ever fitted to a production car.
As with the older Veyron, the French car manufacturer claims that the Chiron can give off 3000hp worth of heat rejection when it's driving in earnest, which means a carefully engineered cooling system (comprised of 10 radiators and 5 separate cooling circuits) and an effective aerodynamic package had to be implemented.
Interested in finding out more? Watch the video below and try not to think at the Chiron’s price tag in the meantime.
But thanks to Saabkyle04, who thoroughly filmed every inch of the 1500 PS (1,479hp) 1,600 Nm (1,180 lb·ft) of torque mid-engine, two-seater sports car, we’re able to uncover some of its secrets, at least visually.
Sure, the reportedly 463 km/h (288 mph) capable Chiron is so intricate that this 28-minute video only scratches the surface of its complexity, but it’s enough to offer you an exclusive insight of this automotive royalty.
As you’d expect, Bugatti is in a league of its own when it comes to attention to details, as even the regular key fob’s logo is made from silver like the one on the radiator grille. To top it off, each one of the four headlamps uses carbon fiber and aluminum elements, while the entire light clusters are characterized by Bugatti as the flattest LED projector headlamps ever fitted to a production car.
As with the older Veyron, the French car manufacturer claims that the Chiron can give off 3000hp worth of heat rejection when it's driving in earnest, which means a carefully engineered cooling system (comprised of 10 radiators and 5 separate cooling circuits) and an effective aerodynamic package had to be implemented.
Interested in finding out more? Watch the video below and try not to think at the Chiron’s price tag in the meantime.
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Chiron rated at 9 city 14 hw 11 combined mpg
Put simply, the Chiron's fuel-economy ratings, released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency, are absurd.
Sure, the 1,500-horsepower roadster's quad-turbocharged, 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine delivers 1,180 foot-pounds of torque, has a top speed of 261 mph and does 0-to-60 in 2.3 seconds (watch it run up to 218 mph, here). Certainly impressive. But there's a tradeoff: a measly 11 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. That's 9 mpg in the city and a whopping 14 on the highway.
That equates to an estimated annual fuel cost of $3,800, averaging $6.26 in gasoline — premium gasoline, no less — for every 25 miles driven. With a 9.1-gallon fuel tank, you'd be hard pressed, while zooming down the PCH or Autobahn, to squeeze out 100 miles before you'd need to find a filling station.
Still, it's a slight upward tick from the Bugatti Veyron, which the EPA rated at 10 mpg combined. Bugatti says the W16 engine represents a 25 percent increase in performance compared to its predecessor, with nearly every single part of the engine examined and newly developed. Included are four turbochargers that are 69 percent larger than on the discontinued Veyron.
Somehow we doubt that the miserly fuel economy ratings will hurt the supercar's prestige. Back in November, Bugatti design director Achim Anscheidt told Autoblog that the Chiron's uber-exclusive clientele owns an average of 42 cars in their impossible-to-imagine garages (plus 1.7 jets and 1.4 yachts,)
Sure, the 1,500-horsepower roadster's quad-turbocharged, 8.0-liter 16-cylinder engine delivers 1,180 foot-pounds of torque, has a top speed of 261 mph and does 0-to-60 in 2.3 seconds (watch it run up to 218 mph, here). Certainly impressive. But there's a tradeoff: a measly 11 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. That's 9 mpg in the city and a whopping 14 on the highway.
That equates to an estimated annual fuel cost of $3,800, averaging $6.26 in gasoline — premium gasoline, no less — for every 25 miles driven. With a 9.1-gallon fuel tank, you'd be hard pressed, while zooming down the PCH or Autobahn, to squeeze out 100 miles before you'd need to find a filling station.
Still, it's a slight upward tick from the Bugatti Veyron, which the EPA rated at 10 mpg combined. Bugatti says the W16 engine represents a 25 percent increase in performance compared to its predecessor, with nearly every single part of the engine examined and newly developed. Included are four turbochargers that are 69 percent larger than on the discontinued Veyron.
Somehow we doubt that the miserly fuel economy ratings will hurt the supercar's prestige. Back in November, Bugatti design director Achim Anscheidt told Autoblog that the Chiron's uber-exclusive clientele owns an average of 42 cars in their impossible-to-imagine garages (plus 1.7 jets and 1.4 yachts,)
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I find it sad that our government wastes money doing a fuel economy test on a car like this. Yet they don't test heavy duty pickup trucks, something that sells over 500,000 units a year. Still, we need to certify the gas mileage of that Bugatti, those 20 people who buy one need to know the mileage so they can compare it to a 12 cylinder Ferrari and make an informed buying decision.
