On a sunny day at 25 degrees in the Bugatti Veyron super sports achieved a world speed record new land for the production of cars in the field of proof of the Volkswagen Ehra-Lessien (near its headquarters in Wolfsburg) . In the presence of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and a representative of Guinness Book of Records Super Sport Bugatti Veyron reached a speed of 431 km upper middle / h.
Saturday, 14 am - Official Bugatti driver Pierre-Henri Raphanel puts his helmet and gloves, pull the seat belts tighten while engineers checked the car one last time, tire pressure, temperature, all systems go. Then the orange-black Bugatti Veyron Super Sport through a light barrier, from now on, time will be taken within an hour the car will run from south to north and then in the opposite direction. No, but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. Tension mounts. A few minutes later, we hear the left the sound of a jumbo jet starting to approach us. First, we see headlights Veyron, so we can recognize the shape of the car, a high wooosh .... Raphanel and dashes at full speed ahead. GPS speedometer stops at 427, 933 km / h. Now, the same procedure in the opposite direction. This time the car reaches 434,211 km / h.
"We've taken that we would reach an average of 425 km / h," said chief engineer Dr. Wolfgang Schreiber, Bugatti, "but conditions were perfect today, and has even more."
Culmination of a series Veyron Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
It was a very popular model and very successful in racing, Ettore Bugatti customers often pushes the teacher to solve the horsepower a bit more for your future car. Bugatti Automobiles SAS has been in a similar situation when their existing customers asked the company not only to design their second different optical model, but also to create a version with a more sporty driving experience and more extreme. The result is a car with a single high-performance 1200 hp (882 kW) with experienced drivers a new dimension of excitement, with a maximum torque of 1500 Nm and a top speed limited to 415 km / h (to protect tires) but the technique of the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport car is identical to the record. The first five Bugatti Veyron Super Sport line of production is a special series of his own, with the same configuration as the vehicle registration Landspeed.
The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is a consequence of the development of unique classic 1001 hp Bugatti Veyron 16.4, released in 2005. This model offers an amazing array of specifications, such as gear dual-clutch seven-speed driving performance curves extremely accurate and excellent stability under braking and acceleration.
Continuous work leads to extreme performance varies constantly new findings, which allowed engineers to develop the Bugatti Veyron the direction in which the driver can reach new dimensions. Each change is designed to produce a more efficient car to drive agile. Four enlarged turbochargers and bigger intercoolers were used to increase the power of a 16-cylinder, and the case has been completely renovated to ensure safety at extreme speeds - thanks to the elevated main wheel travel, new dampers and stronger stabilizers, with a complex architecture originally developed for racing cars. This gives a much more accurate control of the wheels and the car's dimensions. With lateral acceleration up to 1.4 G, and improved interaction between the tire and a clever four-wheel drive system, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport offers the perfect handling and a more efficient acceleration of 1500 Nm at an angle of output.
External dynamics
Every detail of this car, not only the use of advanced technology of motor sport back to the pioneering spirit of founder Ettore Bugatti. This brilliant designer of a family of artists, and his philosophy has always been the perfect combination of mechanical and outer beauty. This spirit is alive and well in the business, and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is totally incomparable with all the external changes used to persuade a higher performance car.
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport flat, elongated silhouette is immediately recognizable. 16-cylinder has the air has two NACA ducts integrated into the ceiling, rather than the ball is above the engine. The front air intakes are enlarged and reworded, and stretches elegantly over the sides down the wings. Revised back through the speaker seems more sporty double exhaust pipes and centralized.
Bugatti is a tradition to make the Super-Sport versions of the models of success, usually racing chassis and supercharged engines. These cars were regarded as true diehard fans Bugatti racing cars. The most successful were the type 55 and type of 57s, only about forty of each building.
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport has appeared publicly for the first time in California, the Pebble Beach Concours weekend in mid August 2010 and has been on display at the Quail, Monterey Historic Race at Laguna Seca, and the concept lawn at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance .