The styling
The Chiron is the most modern interpretation of Bugatti’s
brand DNA and embodies our new design language. The styling accentuates
the performance aspect of the super sports car. The motto adopted by
the Bugatti designers for the Chiron was “Form follows Performance”.
Inspired through
Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic
the new design language is characterised by extremely generous surfaces,
which are demarcated by pronounced lines in the case of the Chiron.
Thereby most of these elements have a technical background and have been
designed to fully accentuate the growing performance requirements of
the Chiron.
The German-developed, French-produced brand has attempted to do
precisely that in its new, $2.9 million Chiron (Bugatti is a subsidiary
of the Volkswagen Group), the first production versions of which have
just been delivered to customers.
The new car is clearly related to the old one, but is
more
in every way: more menacing and elegant styling, more luxurious
interior trim, more wind-cheating aerodynamic doo-dads, more technology,
and, most important, more power. The 8-liter W-16 motor now makes 1500
horses. The brief for the new car
was quite direct: “Do everything better in all dimensions. Remarkably
better.” Expect something akin to a terrestrial jet.
The V16 Engine
In order to achieve a
25 percent increase in
performance compared to its predecessor, almost every single part of
the engine was looked at and newly developed. This feat of engineering
resulted in the W16 engine of the Bugatti Chiron
1 being able to develop an unbelievable
1,103 kW (1,500 bps) from its 8 litres of displacement. The engine reaches its maximum torque of
1,600 Nm thanks to the turbocharger which Bugatti actually even developed itself.
The big W-16 breathes deeply from intakes above the line that carries
forward through to the door aperture from the pronounced haunch in the
rear fenders, taking full advantage of the powerful laminar airflow
streaming around the A-pillars.
The
4 turbochargers are now double-powered and already guarantee maximum torque at
2,000 rpm, and the torque is maintained at this level all the way up to
6,000 rpm. The result is unbelievable acceleration which only comes to an end in the twilight zone somewhere beyond the
400 km/h mark.
The Interior
The "Aggressive" End
Source: http://www.bugatti.com/chiron/