Produced in 2005 an having ended in the late 2008, two hundred and twenty Veyrons were being built. When it was built, it was the fastest street legal car in the world. Now, it is currently the 2nd fastest car in the world, behind the SSC Ultimate Aero tt.
(Picture of Ultimate Aero tt)However, the Bugatti Veryon is just, more special...it is just so special, so magical. This car is really the future of what cars will be.
If you wonder why the Bugatti Veyron is that special, here is your answer.
A W-16 engine that can produce 1,001 horsepower
A top speed of 400km/h
A 0-to-100 time of 3 seconds
A 0-to-300 time of 14 seconds
All these numbers have not been seen in any other car. These numbers have broken barriers. It has broken records. 1001 horsepower is such a special number, breaking off from the 3 digit numbers to the 4th. Breaking off from the 300+km/h barrier into the 400+km/h zone. These are just some facts of what makes the Veyron such as special car.
The Veyron is a real engineering marvel. If you're wondering why, here is why:
A Veyron has a 16-liter V-8 engine, which would obviously be very large. And the pistons would be just massive. Clearly an engine that big is impossible in a passenger car. So how did Bugatti ever fit 1,001 horsepower into a street legal passenger car?
Well, here is the answer.A Veyron uses turbocharges. This helps to to reduce the size of the engine from 16 liters back down to a more manageable 8 liters. And to do this, the Veyron uses 4 turbocharges. Another problem arrives when this happens. A lot of heat is produced. This is why the Veyron has air vents to let air from the outside flow into the inside to cool the engines. The Veyron has two reasons for managing airflow:
At maximum power, the engine is consuming 45,000 liters of air per minute.
At maximum power, the engine is burning 1.33 gallons of gasoline per minute and needs to dissipate all of that heat through its radiators.
Having solved 2 problems, the engineers still have a few other problems to solve. One of the biggest problems would be the aerodynamics. How do you keep a 400km/h street passenger car on the road? Usually, cars which are able to reach up to those speeds like the formula one car (non-street legal) has a uniquely designed body, a single driver lying in a reclining position, just an inch or so of ground clearance and an aero-package made up of large wings to generate massive downforce. The Bugatti, on the other hand, is trying to look like a normal car and it has two seats for passengers.
The dimensions of the Veyron are of some help. The car is 200 cm wide, 447 cm long and only 122 cm high. And do note that the Veyron is extremely wide for a car of its height. Even a Hummer 2 is not as wide as it it.
Another factor which helps the Veryon is the underside of it. Like an F-1 car, is streamlined and venturi-shaped to increase downforce. There is also a wing in the back of the Veyron that extends automatically at high speed to increase downforce and keep the car glued to the road. The Veyron is also relatively heavy to keep it on the ground at its maximum speed.
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