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Nicknamed "The street-legal car the most expensive, most powerful and fastest in the world" may Bugatti Veyron 16.4 will be well over 250 mph (400 + kmph). This wheel plane can go from zero to sixty in 2.5 seconds and a base price of 1,000,000 euros ($ 1,300,000.00). Full production began in September 2005, this car is built by Bugatti Automobiles SAS, which happens to be a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG. The car is named after Pierre Veyron, in 1939, Le Mans champion who drove for the original Bugatti firm.

The development of the car started with the EB 18 / 3 cars "Veyron" concept in 1999 Hartmut Warkuss be designed to Volkswagen. The emergence of the concept car is very similar to the final production car, but sported a W18 engine and three banks of six cylinders instead of the W16 engine. At the Geneva Motor Show 2001, the former chairman of VW, Ferdinand Piëch announced the production of the Veyron, but use the W16 engine promised a top speed of 250 mph. Development continued throughout 2001, production was postponed by delays and setbacks in the design. This is mainly due to the difficulty of maintaining a stable car at high speed. A prototype crashed Veyron and another spun out while being shown publicly for the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2003, Piech retired as president of Volkswagen and was replaced by Bernd Pischetsrieder, who sent the Veyron project back to the drawing board to solve big problems.

Bugatti then announced that the car was officially called the Bugatti Veyron 16.4.

Under the hood, the Veyron 16.4 has a W16 engine with 4 banks of 4 cylinders. The engine looks like two V8 engines fused into one. The engine is equipped with four turbochargers and displaces 8.0 L with a 86 x 86 mm square bore and stroke. It also uses a dual-clutch DSG computer-controlled manual transmission with seven gear ratios with paddles behind the wheel of the gear lever, which is a time difference of 8 ms possible. It can also be powered by a fully automatic transmission. The Veyron works full-time four-wheel, which was developed by Haldex and special uses run-flat Michelin tire designed specifically for the Veyron. The wheelbase of 2.7 meters while the length is 4.4 meters and a width of about 2 meters (1.99 meters) and 1.2 meters high.

The Veyron 16.4 is the fastest car to reach 62 km / h with an estimated time of 2.5 seconds. As a matter of fact, the Veyron 0-200 kmh times faster than the McLaren F1 is 120 to 200 km / h time. So what makes the car of the fastest accelerating production to date. For this reason, also 16.4 Veyron consumes more fuel than any production car. At full throttle, the Veyron empty fuel tank 100 L in only 12.5 minutes.

The engine comes with three cooling radiators, other heat exchangers exclusively for air-liquid, air conditioning for two, a transmission oil, one for motor oil and one for the hydraulic oil used by spoilers , with a total of 10 radiators operating simultaneously for the Veyron 16.4.



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