Bugatti Chiron

 

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 Chiron¹ 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/